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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.

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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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Saudi Digital Payments Reach 80% As Cash Use Shrinks

Visa data shows cards and mobile wallets dominate spending, with smartphones now driving a growing share of daily transactions.

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Digital payments now account for 80% of all transactions in Saudi Arabia, according to Visa’s latest Where Cash Hides report, another marker of how quickly the Kingdom is moving away from cash.

The share is up four percentage points from a year ago. Around 67% of consumers are now largely non-cash users, paying mainly with cards or mobile wallets. Smartphones are taking a bigger role, with mobile payments making up 16% of transactions.

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Cash is retreating in routine spending. Eating out dropped 9%. Bill payments fell 8%, as shoppers opt for faster checkouts and app-based payments.

“The data shows a steady move toward digital payments in Saudi Arabia. Such progress is possible only because banks, fintechs, merchants, and technology partners are moving together in the same direction, in line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030,” said Ali Bailoun, Visa’s Senior Vice President and Group Country Manager for Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Oman.

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Despite the recent findings, it’s important to note that cash hasn’t yet disappeared. It still shows up for tips (39%), peer-to-peer transfers (28%) and rent (14%).

Visa points to security features such as tokenization, along with rewards and cashback, as factors nudging more spending onto cards and phones — a shift that tracks with Saudi Arabia’s wider Vision 2030 push to digitize commerce.

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