Emirates NBD - News, Articles & Research

Company announcement/payments

Emirates NBD launches supply chain and trade finance portal, smartTRADE

Emirates NBD, one of the leading banks in the region, has launched smartTRADE, a new portal catering to supply chain and trade finance customers, as part of the bank’s smartBUSINESS channel.

24 September 2019

Company announcement/cloud

Emirates NBD to launch voice banking through Amazon Alexa

Emirates NBD customers in the UAE will soon be able to get banking updates, track spends as well as listen to daily market briefings on their Amazon Alexa devices, as the bank continues to lead digital innovation in the MENA region with new Voice Banking solutions powered by “Amazon Web Services” (AWS).

13 September 2019

Company announcement/startups

Emirates NBD certifies first five fintech sandbox graduates

Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the region, together with the DIFC FinTech Hive, the largest financial technology accelerator in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA), are the first in the region to certify FinTech startups who have successfully used the Emirates NBD’s API (Application Programming Interface) Sandbox to create and demonstrate working innovative financial solutions.

20 August 2019

Company announcement/regulation

Emirates NBD taps SAP for data-driven decision making

Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the Middle East, has partnered with SAP, a market leader in enterprise software, to become the first bank globally to implement SAP Financial Services Data Platform. It is powered by SAP in-memory data platform, SAP HANA and can now deliver customer intelligence across all Emirates NBD Group market segments, entities and countries.

19 August 2019

News

Emirates NBD uses gamification to raise money for charity

Emirates NBD's digital offshoot Liv. has been using an in-app wheel-spinning game to raise money for charity.

16 July 2019

Company announcement

Emirates NBD implements digitised payments for Dubai Department of Finance

Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the region, has announced the successful implementation of a digitised payment solution for Dubai Department of Finance (DoF) to achieve full Host-to-Host (H2H) integration of all payment processes through the bank’s smartBUSINESS Connect solution.

03 July 2019

News/ai

Emirates NBD taps AWS for AI-enabled bank

Emirates NBD is using Amazon Web Services (AWS) machine learning and data analytics technology to help build a "bank of the future".

30 May 2019

Company announcement

Emirates NBD brings business chat to WhatsApp

Emirates NBD customers can now chat bank via WhatsApp as the bank introduces customised services via the WhatsApp Business Solution, a first in the region.

08 April 2019

Company announcement/ai

Emirates NBD’s digital bank Liv. launches chatbot powered by Kasisto’s KAI Banking

Kasisto, creators of KAI Banking, the leading conversational AI platform for finance, and Liv., the largest digital bank in the UAE, operated and managed by Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the Middle East region, today announced the launch of Olivia, Liv.’s conversational

01 April 2019

News/devops

Emirates NBD to use sandbox as fintech certification platform

Emirates NBD is bidding to attract third party fintech firms to its API Sandbox environment by promising to arrange demo opportunities with senior leaders of the bank and a certification award to participating startups.

26 March 2019

News/payments

Network International plans London listing

Middle Eastern payments processor Network International is contemplating a listing on the London Stock Exchange.

14 March 2019

News

Emirates NBD overhauls wholesale banking operations

Emirates NBD has selected technology from Intellect Design Arena to overhaul its transaction banking business as part of an AED1 billion commitment to digitise operations, products and services for corporate clients and retail customers.

26 February 2019