CBUAE and Core42 launch the world’s first sovereign financial cloud, an AI-powered, secure platform that keeps data local, boosts cybersecurity, and enables UAE banks to innovate and compete globally

by | Feb 25, 2026

The platform is designed to help UAE banks and financial institutions adopt digital innovation more efficiently, accelerate the delivery of modern financial services, and strengthen the country’s financial competitiveness and resilience in a rapidly evolving global...

CBUAE and HKMA deepen financial cooperation and market connectivity, focusing on cross-border debt markets, digital assets, tokenisation, digital currencies, stablecoin oversight, and supply chain finance

by | Feb 12, 2026

A key outcome is the CBUAE’s formal membership in Hong Kong’s Central Moneymarkets Unit (CMU), the city’s core debt securities depository, giving UAE investors direct and cost‑effective access to Chinese Mainland capital markets via Hong Kong’s infrastructure and...

CBUAE unveils Middle East’s first biometric payment solution, a proof‑of‑concept pilot enabling payments via facial and palm recognition as part of the UAE’s Digital Economy Strategy

by | Jan 28, 2026

The initiative is being tested at the Dubai Land Department through the bank’s Sandbox Programme and Innovation Hub, developed in partnership with Network International and powered by PopID, and is designed to boost security, convenience and innovation in the national...