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Tarabut Opens Riyadh HQ To Drive Saudi Open Banking
MENA’s leading regulated financial platform has opened a regional headquarters to support Saudi Arabia’s open banking rollout in line with Vision 2030.
Tarabut, a leading regulated financial technology platform in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain, has opened its regional headquarters in Riyadh, underlining its commitment to the Kingdom’s financial transformation agenda.
The new base will anchor Saudi-focused product development and client delivery, cementing Tarabut’s role as the main infrastructure and intelligence layer of this burgeoning financial technology.
The inauguration drew senior figures from partners including SNB, SAB, Alinma, Bank Aljazira and GIB, alongside board members and Tarabut leadership. Their presence showed the company’s close work with local banks and its role in the fintech ecosystem.
“Saudi Arabia has shown that transformation is not a buzzword, it is a blueprint,” said Abdulla Almoayed, founder and CEO of Tarabut. “Establishing our headquarters in Riyadh is a long-term commitment to the Kingdom, and our pledge to build, to serve, and to grow alongside our regulator, partners, shareholders, and team.” He credited the Saudi Central Bank and Tarabut’s Saudi talent for supporting the rollout of the fintech transformation.
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With a permanent base in Riyadh, Tarabut will accelerate open banking and embedded finance use cases at a pivotal moment in the Kingdom’s rollout. The platform has already achieved full connectivity with all major Saudi banks and signed partnerships with SNB, Alinma and SAB. The company says its infrastructure will help financial institutions and fintechs tackle challenges in financing, credit decisioning and customer experience, while aligning with Vision 2030 goals.
The Riyadh HQ will also serve as a collaboration hub for regulators, banks and fintechs. By embedding itself locally, Tarabut aims to strengthen trust in the market and drive adoption at scale.
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Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 9 And Ultra 2 Specs Leak Ahead Of Unpacked
An 800mAh Ultra 2 battery and a switch from Exynos to Qualcomm silicon headline the expected changes for Samsung’s next smartwatches.
Samsung’s next smartwatches have little left to hide. A new leak reported by Android Authority has surfaced most of the remaining details about the Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, just over a week before the company’s Galaxy Unpacked event on July 22.
The biggest change is an invisible one: Samsung is expected to drop its own Exynos W1000 chip in favor of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear Elite SW6100, a chipset unveiled only this year, according to the outlet.
Battery capacity looks like the other notable upgrade. Citing a report from Winfuture, Android Authority says the Watch Ultra 2 could reach 800mAh, well beyond the 590mAh cell in the current Watch Ultra. The 44mm Watch 9 reportedly gets a 445mAh cell — the same capacity as last year’s Watch 8 Classic — while the 40mm model stays at 325mAh.
The 40mm Watch 9 will reportedly feature a 438 x 438-pixel panel, with the 44mm Watch 9 and the Watch Ultra 2 sharing a larger 480 x 480-pixel screen. Samsung leaker Ice Universe has separately claimed the Ultra 2’s display could reach a peak brightness of 5,000 nits. RAM and storage vary by model, topping out at 2GB and 64GB.
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The Ultra 2 keeps its titanium case and 100-meter water resistance; the standard Watch 9 remains aluminum, rated to 5 ATM. All models are said to include Bluetooth 6.0, NFC, and dual-band WiFi, with the usual LTE variants, and ship with One UI 9 Watch running on Wear OS 7.
A separate leak puts the Galaxy Watch 9 at €409 (about $468) for the 40mm Bluetooth model, rising to €489 (about $560) for the 44mm LTE version, with the Watch Ultra 2 LTE at €749 (about $857) — figures Android Authority said were partially corroborated by Winfuture. Confirmation arrives on stage on July 22.
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