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Whish Money Launches Region’s First Cardless Shopify Checkout

Whish Pay offers instant, secure, and fully cashless e-commerce payments for online merchants across the region.

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1 year ago

June 12, 2025

whish money launches region's first cardless shopify checkout

Whish Money, a fintech innovator headquartered in Lebanon, has announced the launch of Whish Pay on leading e-commerce platform Shopify. The integration marks the first regional introduction of a fully cardless checkout solution, and is poised to revolutionize digital transactions and bolster e-commerce growth across the Middle East.

“At Whish Money, we are committed to empowering businesses with innovative financial solutions. This integration is a game-changer for regional e-commerce,” said Toufic Koussa, Whish Money’s Co-Founder and CEO, adding: “Whish Pay on Shopify empowers merchants with a frictionless checkout experience, eliminating the pain points of online payments and providing entrepreneurs with the tools to succeed in a digital world”.

Whish Pay’s seamless, cardless checkout provides merchants and customers alike with immediate transaction settlements, eliminates chargeback risks, and boasts a highly competitive fee structure. Shopify merchants now have instant access to Whish Money’s growing base of over 1 million active users, who can effortlessly complete purchases directly from their Whish digital wallets, accelerating transaction speed and boosting merchant confidence.

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Commenting on the partnership, Jad Fakhani (also known as Wolfofbey), a prominent entrepreneur and e-commerce mentor in the region, highlighted its transformative potential: “Whish Pay on Shopify marks a transformative step for the region’s digital commerce. It empowers local businesses to expand rapidly, compete globally, and succeed with unmatched speed, security, and simplicity”.

Already recognized by leading platforms for its robust payment technology, Whish Pay’s integration with Shopify broadens its reach, further cementing Whish Money’s reputation as a trusted partner committed to advancing regional businesses through groundbreaking fintech innovations.

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A Three-Clinic Network Bets Dubai Is Ready For Longevity Medicine

Longevium has enlisted nearly 100 clinicians and created an AI platform in a bid to sell biological-age tracking as a medicine, not a wellness service.

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2 days ago

July 13, 2026

Dana Saadeh

a three-clinic network bets dubai is ready for longevity medicine

Dubai has been busily creating the scaffolding for a longevity industry, including a dedicated regulatory authority and a health market deep enough to sustain it. Now the clinics are arriving.

Longevium, a longevity clinic network, has opened three locations across the city: a flagship at Triple Seven Mall on Jumeirah 3, and branches in Jumeirah Lake Towers and Jumeirah Village Circle. Together they house a multidisciplinary team of nearly 100 physicians and specialists offering what the company bills as “a measurable medical system for longevity”.

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The pitch is that longevity medicine should look less like a wellness menu and more like continuous clinical care. Each patient’s biological age assessment, laboratory results, body composition, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic markers, and lifestyle data feed into a single profile, with a proprietary AI platform helping physicians track progress and adjust protocols against the patient’s own biomarkers.

“Healthy aging must be approached clinically through diagnostics, biomarkers, physician supervision, longitudinal tracking, and protocols tailored to the individual,” said Dr. Ksenia Butova, Longevium’s founder and CEO. “Our goal is to help patients understand their health trajectory before disease develops, and then actively change that trajectory”.

The treatment list spans peptide-based protocols, exosome therapies, stem cell approaches, GLP-1 metabolic optimization, hormone balance programs, cardiovascular prevention, and regenerative aesthetics — a model built for the entrepreneurs, executives, and international patients the clinic says want measurable results rather than generic wellness. A signature offering, Longevity Day, compresses biomarker testing, ultrasound and vascular imaging, specialist consultations, IV therapy, and a personalized optimization roadmap into a single three-hour visit.

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“Here, longevity, biotechnology, AI, prevention, and regenerative medicine are converging into a single ecosystem,” said Butova. “This is why Longevium was built in Dubai, and why we believe the UAE can become a global reference point for longevity medicine”.

The emirate established the Dubai Longevity Authority in 2026 to oversee its longevity, wellness, and advanced health sectors, and the Dubai Health Authority reported insured beneficiaries exceeding 4.9 million in 2025, up around 6.5%, with insurance claims reaching approximately 49.6 million, up around 13.5%.