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Saudi Arabia's tokenisation market remains in its early stages. However, rapid financial digitalisation, expanding fintech activity and growing institutional interest in digital assets are creating foundations for future development. How large could the m

Doha, 31st August 2026 - Al Faisal Holding, one of the largest and most diversified private sector groups in Qatar and the region, has entered a strategic partnership with BKN301, a leading financial technology provider, to launch a new venture "AFH FINTE

Why I believe data will define the next generation of banking. For years, banks have focused on the core platform as the main driver of modernization. I think that is changing. What really sets banks apart now is not the core system, but the data. Banks t

August 6, 2026 - Tether, the largest company in the digital asset industry, today announced a strategic collaboration with First Advanced Data for Artificial Intelligence LLC (FirstData) and BKN301. The collaboration will deploy Hadron by Tether as the co

A note from Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya, CTO of BKN301. Banking has always evolved by adding new capabilities. Today, the challenge is different. The industry is learning to separate them. Stablecoins separate money from traditional payment rails. Tokenisat

Rethinking the AI challenge. Artificial intelligence is often discussed as a technology challenge. In reality, it is an operating model challenge. Even when organisations use the same AI models, tools, and training, their results can be very different. Th

More than 30% of Mastercard 's global transactions are now tokenised, driving tokenised payments at global scale. Visa also reports that payment tokenisation can reduce e-commerce fraud by 35% and increase authorisation rates by nearly five percentage poi

For decades, financial technology has been measured by what it could digitise. Today, it's increasingly measured by the value it creates for businesses, institutions and the people they serve. As the industry evolves, artificial intelligence (AI) is accel

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is making history as the largest edition of the tournament to date, bringing together 48 teams across 104 matches spanned across Canada, Mexico, and the United States. But while millions of fans focus on the pitch, global financial

Stiven Muccioli, Founder and CEO of BKN301, served on the judging panel of TechRound's MENA40 2026, the UK publication's first ranking of the most notable technology companies across the Middle East and North Africa. The panel of six judges assessed entri