AI Is in the Loop, Not Humans: Hari Menon on Wealth Management’s Great Recalibration
Hari Menon, Partner and Executive Vice President at Intellect Design Arena and MFTA corporate member, joins FinTech TV’s Raghda Ibraheem for an interview nominated by MENA Fintech Association, shortly after Forrester named Intellect’s WealthForce.ai platform a Notable Vendor in its Digital Wealth Management Platforms Landscape, Q2 2026 report. Menon reframes the industry’s favourite phrase. It […]
Why Sovereign Wealth Funds Don’t Want Operators, They Want Governance | Gaurav Dhar
Gaurav Dhar, CEO and Founder of The WorxShop and Board Member at MFTA, sold 70 percent of his fintech business to a sovereign wealth fund, kept a 30 percent stake and a permanent board seat, and now sits on the other side of the deals he once needed. In this episode of Wall Street to […]
Fighting AI-Driven Fraud: Sumsub’s Arina Rumiantseva
Arina Rumiantseva, Senior Legal Counsel at Sumsub, joins FinTech TV’s Raghda Ibraheem for an interview nominated by MENA Fintech Association, covering the state of identity fraud and verification across the UAE, wider MENA region, EU, UK and CIS. Sumsub, the AI-driven global verification platform, is currently tracking 23,000 fraudulent attempts a day, most combining genuine […]
Inside VARA’s Rulebook: Musheer Ahmed on Crypto Regulation, AI Risk & Hong Kong–MENA Ties
Musheer Ahmed, Founder of Finstep Asia and MFTA’s Hong Kong Ambassador, sits down on Fintech TV to unpack what it actually took to help stand up VARA – Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority – from the ground up, and what he’s learned watching the space evolve since. As MFTA’s Hong Kong Ambassador, Musheer’s work sits […]
Inside the UAE’s Federal Crypto Law: VARA, DFSA and the Billion Dirham Question | Isabella Chase
Isabella Chase, Head of Policy for EMEA at Chainalysis and part of the MFTA network, joins Raghda Ibraheem on Wall Street to MENA (Fintech TV) as the UAE’s new federal crypto law takes effect on September 16, distributing oversight across five regulators with penalties of up to one billion dirhams. The conversation covers the logic […]
Crypto.com’s Mohamed Al Hakim on UAE’s Next Cashless Payment Frontier
Emirates and Dubai Duty Free went live with crypto payments within two weeks of each other, powered by Crypto.com under a Stored Value Facility license from the Central Bank of the UAE. In this episode of Wall Street to MENA on Fintech.Tv, host Raghda Ibraheem sits down with Mohamed Al Hakim, President and General Manager […]
Why Correspondent Banking Is Losing Ground to Stablecoins | Claire Barratt, BCB Group
Cross-border payments have run on the same model for decades: a chain of correspondent banks, each taking a fee, each adding a delay. Claire Barratt, Managing Director UAE at BCB Group and an MFTA Corporate Member, breaks down why that model is being displaced and what is replacing it. In this episode of Wall Street […]
Inside Saudi Arabia’s 73,000km Road Network: The Logistics Gateway Connecting 3 Continents
Saudi Arabia has built one of the world’s largest road networks, more than 73,000km connecting eight countries. On this episode of Wall Street to MENA, Raghda Ibraheem sits down with Nasreen Alissa to unpack what that scale actually means for the kingdom’s economic trajectory. Nasreen explains how the network is becoming the backbone of Vision […]
UAE Stablecoin Volume Hits $1.8B in June: Coinbase’s Akos Erzse on What’s Next
Multiple licensed dirham-backed stablecoins. A central bank actively building open finance infrastructure. And $1.8 billion in adjusted transaction volume in June alone, up 105% year on year. MFTA has just published a new report mapping the UAE’s digital assets and stablecoin ecosystem. In this episode of Wall Street to MENA, Raghda Ibraheem sits down with […]
Stablecoins Still Move Only 1% of Global Payments. Here’s Why” – Miriam Kiwan on UAE’s New Rulebook
Stablecoins still represent just 1% of global payment flows, despite explosive growth. Miriam Kiwan, advisor and former Senior Vice President and VP for Circle MEA, joins Wall Street to MENA to explain the gap. In July 2026, the Central Bank of the UAE integrated stablecoin rules directly into its Payment Token Services Regulation, treating stablecoins […]