Outward remittances from the UAE reached Dh188.8 billion in 2025, up 27.8% year on year. Dh63.3 billion of that was tied to trade (Central Bank of the UAE, Financial Stability Report 2025). The corridors carrying that money to Asia, Europe and Africa are still fragmented, slow and expensive for the businesses that rely on them.

At Money20/20 Middle East in Riyadh, Raghda Ibraheem speaks with Sami Uddin, GCC Director of Embedded Platform at Sokin, about how embedded finance changes that. Sokin does not ask businesses to adopt a separate payment system. It builds cross-border payments directly into the tools and workflows they already use, so the payment runs in the background, fast and transparent.

Uddin explains why the GCC is the right market now. It is one of the world’s highest-volume cross-border payment regions, driven by trade, remittances and a highly international workforce, and its regulators are increasingly supportive of new payments infrastructure. He also outlines Sokin’s next phase in the region: deeper partnerships, stronger links with institutions, and proof of what the platform delivers for GCC businesses.

Sokin is part of the MFTA network.

Topics: cross-border payments in the GCC, embedded finance, trade and remittance corridors, payments regulation, Sokin’s regional growth.

Guest: Sami Uddin, GCC Director of Embedded Platform, Sokin
Host: Raghda Ibraheem, Fintech TV