Raja Al Mazrouei

Executive vice president, DIFC Fintech Hive

With 50 per cent of all fintech businesses within the UAE operating out of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), DIFC Fintech Hive – which serves as an accelerator to fintech, insurtech, regtech and Islamic fintech firms – tripled its operating space in the first half of 2020. Al Mazrouei has previously worked at Dubai Holding and the National Bond Corporation, and is now steering Fintech Hive in a new strategic direction by opening to markets such as Israel. Fintech Hive can also lean on other programmes such as the $100m DIFC Fintech Fund and the DIFC Innovation Hub which allows fintechs to avail of the ‘Innovation Testing Licence’ regulatory sandbox.