Over the past few years, banking conversations in the GCC have been dominated by digital transformation, open banking, and real-time payments.
Today, the conversation is evolving. It's no longer just about innovation. It's about resilience at the core. With geopolitical uncertainty, stricter regulatory expectations, and rising cyber threats, banks across the region are asking a more critical question:
"Can our core banking platform withstand disruption and continue operating without interruption?"
Amr Kandel
GCC Country Manager
Banking as a Service is one of the most consequential structural shifts in financial services since the introduction of internet banking. It decouples the provision of regulated banking infrastructure from the customer-facing delivery of financial products; allowing companies that are not banks to offer bank-quality financial services to their customers, and allowing licensed banks to generate new revenue streams […]
Oğuzhan Yılmaz
CIS Sales Manager
A core banking platform runs a bank’s accounts, loans, payments and ledger in real time. What it does, what it must include and how to choose one.
Ahmed Samy Tayel
CEO Fimple Egypt
This article provides a comprehensive, practical guide to cloud core banking: what it actually means at a technical and operational level
Samer Khraishi
GCC Sales Director
Whether to modernize aging core banking systems through incremental upgrades to monolithic platforms, or rebuild on composable, cloud-native, API-first Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS); is what GCC Composable Banking Platforms architectures are designed specifically for the digital economy.
Amr Kandel
GCC Product Director and Country Manager
This is Banking as a Service reshaping the Gulf Cooperation Council in 2026. The GCC digital banking market, valued at $12.7 billion in 2026.
Samer Khraishi
GCC Sales Director
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