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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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Nano Banana 2 Arrives In MENA For Google Gemini Users
Google brings its latest image model to Gemini and Search, adding 4K output and tighter text control for regional users.
Google has opened access to Nano Banana 2 across the Middle East and North Africa, pushing its newest image model into everyday tools rather than keeping it inside the exclusive (and expensive) Pro tier.
The rollout spans the Google Gemini desktop and mobile apps, and extends to Google Search through Lens and AI Mode. Developers can also test it in preview via AI Studio and the Gemini API.
Nano Banana 2 runs on Gemini Flash, Google’s fast inference layer. The focus is speed, but also control. Users can export visuals from 512px up to 4K, adjusting aspect ratios for everything from vertical social posts to widescreen displays.
The model maintains character likeness across up to five figures and preserves fidelity for as many as 14 objects within a single workflow. This enables visual continuity across scenes, iterations, or edits — supporting projects like short films, storyboards, and multi-scene narratives. Text rendering has also been improved, delivering legible typography in mockups and greeting cards, with built-in translation and localization directly within images.
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Under the hood, the system taps Gemini’s broader knowledge base and pulls in real-time information and imagery from web search to render specific subjects more accurately. Lighting and fine detail have been upgraded, without slowing output.
By embedding the model inside Gemini and Search, Google is normalizing advanced image generation for a mass audience. In MENA, where startups and marketing teams are leaning heavily on AI to scale content across languages and borders, that shift lands at a practical moment.
The move also folds creative tooling deeper into search itself, so that image generation is no longer a separate workflow. It now sits right next to the query box.
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