GCC foreign exchange market reached USD 17.9 billion in 2024 and projects USD 36 billion by 2033 at 8.1% CAGR, driven by diversification, FDI, tourism ($45B UAE), and remittances ($100-120B regional outflows). Global FX daily turnover hit USD 9.6 trillion (April 2025), with GCC non-oil growth accelerating retail/wholesale demand. Al Fardan Exchange (founded 1971, 85+ […]
Global remittances hit USD 188.93 billion in 2025 and project growth to USD 341.76 billion by 2030 at 12.58% CAGR, driven by migrant workforces, digital-first corridors, and real-time rails like UPI and Pix. The digital remittance market alone grows from USD 20.2 billion (2023) to USD 51.2 billion (2030) at 14.2% CAGR, with mobile channels […]
For more than a decade, fintechs positioned themselves as faster, cheaper, and more user-centric alternatives to traditional banks. They focused on payments, wallets, lending, APIs, and embedded finance—often operating on top of banks rather than becoming one. Yet by 2026, a counter-intuitive but powerful shift is unfolding across Europe, the United States, the Middle East, […]
By 2030, the global digital wallet market will reach USD 7-8 trillion, growing at 20-26% CAGR as wallets handle payments, credit, identity, and more. In 2026 alone, expect USD 16.31 billion in mobile wallet revenues (26.3% CAGR from 2025), with users exceeding 5.2-5.5 billion globally and transaction values climbing toward USD 8T+ by 2029. Wallets […]
Tokenization has evolved from a regulatory formality into one of the most commercially powerful levers in modern payments. In 2025, an estimated 35% of global transactions are tokenized, and a significant share of e-commerce volume already runs on network tokens rather than raw PANs. The industry-wide shift is clear: tokenization is no longer just about […]
Across MENAP, Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, fintechs are rethinking one of the most foundational layers of their payment infrastructure — the gateway. Digital payments in these regions continue to grow at double-digit CAGR, with APAC alone expected to surpass USD 25 billion in payment gateway revenues by 2033, driven by mobile wallets, local […]
By 2026, mobile payments are no longer “a channel”; they are becoming the default interface for how consumers store value, pay, borrow, and identify themselves. Global mobile wallet users are expected to cross 5–5.5 billion, NFC-capable POS coverage will exceed 90% in many retail markets, and real-time rails will account for more than a quarter […]
Global remittances are one of the most resilient segments of financial services. Across cycles and shocks, cross-border money transfers keep growing, with global flows already above USD 850–900 billion and expected to cross USD 1 trillion before the end of the decade. At the same time, building a modern remittance stack with KYC, AML, payout […]
For experienced merchants, platforms, and fintech teams, the real question is not “Which provider is cheaper?” but “Which operating model best matches our scale, control needs, regulatory appetite, and roadmap for the next 3–5 years?” The global payment gateway market is projected to reach well over USD 80–90 billion before 2030, while the payment aggregator […]
For nearly two decades, PCI DSS has served as the foundational security framework for card payments. Compliance has always been treated as the minimum acceptable baseline: encrypt data, segment networks, restrict access, maintain logs. But the payments ecosystem of 2026 looks nothing like that of 2006. Today’s infrastructure spans cloud-native gateways, multi-acquirer routing, third-party orchestration […]
