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Dubai is taking initiatives in boosting application of blockchain. In 2017, Dubai announced its plan to become the world’s first Blockchain-powered government by 2020 and launched the Dubai Blockchain strategy, a collaboration between the Smart Dubai office and the Dubai Future Foundation, aimed at saving AED5.5bn annually in document processing.
Key Findings:
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- As of August 2018, Mexico hosts 334 Fintech startups. The major areas of operations of FinTechs in Mexico are Lending, Payments and Remittances, Enterprise Financial Management, Personal Financial Management, Crowdfunding and Enterprise Technologies for Financial Institutions.
- Enterprise Technologies for Financial Institutions and Trading and Capital Markets segment are the fastest growing sub-sectors at 130% and 100% y-o-y growth respectively. FinTech Mexico, the country’s FinTech association, offers a collaboration space for companies with the aim to improve financial services for all.
- Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (CNBV) supervises and regulates all financial institutions including banks, non-bank finance companies, stockbrokerage houses and mutual fund companies, among others.
- In 2010, it launched a three-prong strategy to promote financial inclusion:
1. New products: low transactional and mobile accounts;
2. Increasing availability of channels: introduction of banking agents;
3. Innovative risk-based regulation: mobile payment regulation
- On March 10, 2018, the Law regulating Financial Technology Institutions ("FinTech Law") became effective. The law creates a regulatory framework applicable to persons who, through IT platforms or tools, facilitate the execution of financial transactions and services, whether through FinTech institutions ("FTI"), entities authorized to operate through regulatory sandbox models, or any authorized Mexican financial entities ("Financial Entities").
- Mexican FinTechs have attracted investment from local and global investors alike. Most well-known deals include the US$89 million round raised by the lending platform Konfio, led by Vostok Emerging Finance; the US$7 million raised by Curu, led by QED Investors; or the US$6 million round raised by ePesos, led by Santander Innoventures.
Banks have set up funds to invest in FinTech. For example, Santander launched the $100 million fund Innoventures in July 2014 to get closer to the wave of disruptive innovation in the FinTech space.
Dubai FinTech Landscape
This document describes the Dubai FinTech landscape, approaching the analysis from a FinTech, regulatory, Investment and talent standpoint.
This document serves as a snapshot of the key pillars of a FinTech ecosystem in a country and provides a good overall view of the state of FinTech at a glance.
Dubai, the second largest emirate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with total population of ~2.7m of which 80% are expats. UAE has internet user penetration at 99%, social media penetration at 99% and unique mobile user penetration at 77% as per the We Are Social 2018 report, reflecting the country’s potential for digital banking services.
Dubai is taking initiatives in boosting application of blockchain. In 2017, Dubai announced its plan to become the world’s first Blockchain-powered government by 2020 and launched the Dubai Blockchain strategy, a collaboration between the Smart Dubai office and the Dubai Future Foundation, aimed at saving AED5.5bn annually in document processing.
Key Findings:
- The Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC), Dubai’s financial district, has 2,003 active registered companies operating, with a combined workforce of 22,768 people.
In January 2017, DFIC established FinTech Hive, an accelerator that aims to bring financial and technology firms together. During the first six months of 2018, 50% of start-ups from the FinTech Hive programme have set up in DIFC. These start-ups have raised a total funding of US$10million.
- Banks are leveraging technology in their services. The Commercial Bank of Dubai (CBD) launched its first personal finance management platform in October 2015. In the remittance and payments space, Emirates NBD launched P2P payments to its customers via MePAY in 2014, while RakBank launched ATM card-less cash withdrawals in 2014. CBD launched in April 2017 CBD Now, Dubai’s first digital only bank.
- As of March 2018, the UAE Banks Federation, a body representing 50 banks in the country, was planning to launch its mobile wallet project – Emirates Digital Wallet by the end of 2018.
- In September 2017, Emcredit, a subsidiary of Dubai Economy, and the UK-based Object Tech Group Ltd announced that they’re working to develop and implement emCash, an encrypted digital currency, which people can use to pay for various government and non-government services in Dubai.
- In November 2017, DIFC launched a US$100m FinTech-focused fund to accelerate the development of financial technology by investing in start-ups from incubation to growth stage.
- In June 2018, DIFC announced a partnership with incubator network Startupbootcamp. The partnership will explore setting up multiple programmes for early stage startups within the fields of FinTech, InsurTech and RegTech, in collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders from various sectors – beyond the realm of financial services.
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