Deloitte releases its 2020 Middle East Fintech Study
22 June, 2020 – Deloitte has just released its inaugural edition of the Middle East FinTech study to shed light on one of the world’s highest-potential ecosystems and to serve as a decision-making tool for banking executives, regulators, and FinTech practitioners. The new report captures the point of view of digital leaders as well as that of Middle East banking customers.
“We hope to provide insights that increase transparency on the evolution of the Middle East FinTech ecosystem, and to strengthen the cooperation between banks and FinTechs, enabling banks to offer their customers innovative value propositions,” said Rushdi Duqah, Deloitte Middle East Digital Leader.
The Deloitte study gathered input from 1,500 banking customers and more than 50 digital leaders from KSA, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan and finds that there is limited alignment between customer expectations and bank offerings and the FinTech ecosystem in the Middle East is characterized by a certain degree of contradiction and dichotomy.
Key findings of the report include:·
“The way forward for the Middle East FinTech Ecosystem to reach its full
potential goes through regulatory harmonization and development of strategic
partnership between Banks and FinTechs,” concluded Anthony Yazitzis, Financial
Services and FinTech Partner, Deloitte Middle East.
To view the whole report, click here.
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