Where GCC cross-border capital moves, settles, and scales. CBB Category 3. Bahrain. VARA. Crypto OTC desk, cross-border settlements, payouts and collections
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ARP Digital's Yusuf Fakhro says @Crypto_Briefing Bitcoin's relative strength and reduced leverage support its recovery, with the Fed's upcoming decision posing the next test.
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LIVE SESSION | The Future of Digital Finance: Tokenization, Stablecoins & the Next Generation of Capital Markets
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"Everyone that asks for payments is asking for credit."
"I think as an industry, we're still so married to the prefunding arrangement. But as we start to escape that, as trust is being built between different partners, then we can really see the vision that we all have for this new payment system."
"It'll be on me as a PSP if I'm not extending credit to my own clients, because I can't blame them for going to someone else who will."
Bassam Elshorafa, Head of Partnerships at @ARPdigital_io and formerly at Stripe.
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I'll be on @stabledash today at 3:00 PM ET on stablecoin settlement for GCC trade at @ARPdigital_io and in The Great Rail Shift. Tune in.
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About $900 billion flows annually from the Gulf to emerging markets, and it's still settling through a structurally broken system.
Abdulaziz Kanoo, Co-Founder of @ARPdigital_io, tells @BasselSabri the real cost isn't fees, it's "float", the capital businesses lose parking money in slow, dollar-based correspondent banking rails.
900 Billion Flows From the Gulf to Emerging Markets Every Year: ARP Digital Is Rebuilding the Rails terminal.fintech.tv/fintecht…
BTC above $85,000. Eight-month high, up more than 30% since Aug 19, through a failed Clarity Act vote and a Fed hike.
Yusuf Fakhro, Partner at ARP Digital, in @WSJ:
"This leg looks different."
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We’re thrilled to announce that Abdulaziz Kanoo, Co-CEO & Co-Founder of @ARPdigital_io , will be joining @AIM_Summit Dubai 2026 as a speaker.
🗓️ 12–13 October 2026
📍 Jumeirah Emirates Towers | Dubai
🔗 Apply to attend: aimsummit.com/OKV4y0
📩[email protected]
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Clarity Act dead at 49-50. BTC at a four-week low. And Yusuf Fakhro's read is that neither is the variable that matters today. @DowJones / @MorningstarInc
"One hike and a pause should let prices steady."
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Traders have priced the Clarity Act to fail. They haven't priced it to pass.
Yusuf Fakhro, Partner at ARP Digital, in @CoinDesk on the setup into cloture vote:
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The future of money is being redefined.
Join our CEO @khalilalami at #AIMCongress for:
Redefining Money for the Digital Age: Stablecoins, CBDCs & Monetary Power Panel
8 Sep | 11:20 AM| DWTC
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Yusuf Fakhro, Partner at ARP Digital, in @CoinDesk this morning:
"Holding around $78,000 after a 23% surge is more telling than the surge itself."
Perp open interest at its lowest since May. Spot ETFs at their strongest week since October 2025.
coindesk.com/markets/2026/09…
Trade moved. Shipping moved. Manufacturing moved.
The money is still waiting on a system designed in the seventies.
Until now.
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Summer is the dead season in the Gulf. Everyone knows that.
Except the licensing desks did not get the memo. A week of summer left, and here in the UAE we are already deep in planning for the autumn and a hot winter. And while some may have assumed summer is the dead season here, licensing of new companies picked up speed instead.
If you want to track how this market develops, watch the number of new licenses and the number of companies entering it.
We have put together a list of new virtual asset-related companies licensed in the UAE since the start of summer:
▪️@Revolut, in-principle from VARA on June 5
▪️@arbeat_io, full VARA license on June 23
▪️@TripleAHQ, in-principle from VARA on June 30
▪️@BitcoinSuisse_, full ADGM permission on July 7
▪️@flipster_io, full VARA exchange license on July 14
▪️@ARPdigital_io, full VARA broker-dealer license on August 7
▪️@flowdesk_co, full VARA broker-dealer license on August 7
▪️@0xCregis, in-principle from VARA on August 7
▪️@coinbase, full ADGM permission for its tokenization hub on August 11
▪️@capitalcom, full CMA license on August 20
Save this list not just to understand where the UAE market is heading, but to know whom to meet when the business season starts.
👉@adbc_ae #UAEForDigitalAssets
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The cross-border payment market in the Gulf was built for retail. SMEs are paying the price.
Abdulla Kanoo and Abdulaziz Kanoo, Co-CEO's and Co-Founders of @ARPdigital_io, tell @RaghdaIbraheem that SMEs' real pain point is simple, "how quickly can I move money, do I have an integrated experience, am I doing it in a compliant way?"
🧵ARP Digital just secured its @varadubai Broker-Dealer licence in Dubai. Here's what that means and why it matters.
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The infrastructure behind it:
T+0/T+1 settlement through local UAE banking rails.
Named virtual IBANs for pay-in and pay-out.
Travel Rule compliant.
On-chain wallet screening on every transfer.
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Bahrain. Now Dubai.
Two supervised markets. One infrastructure.
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