{"id":9243,"date":"2026-02-03T17:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9243"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:19:06","slug":"saudi-fintech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/02\/03\/saudi-fintech\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Fintech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interesting KSA digital developments in fintech and savings <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mdxtmbcexs2a\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreiezfqcydq4rxuspqlr57bb77j6tgmjvscwmudg5irobhlqqw6iu6m\" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\"><p lang=\"en\">&quot;Saudi fintech Hakbah is pushing to formalize one of the region\u2019s oldest financial habits, jameya savings circle, as the kingdom prepares a new National Savings Strategy aimed at bringing more household money into the banking system.&quot; #KSA<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mdxtmbcexs2a?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gary R. Bunt (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">@garyrbunt.bsky.social<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mdxtmbcexs2a?ref_src=embed\">3 February 2026 at 17:01<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting KSA digital developments in fintech and savings &quot;Saudi fintech Hakbah is pushing to formalize one of the region\u2019s oldest financial habits, jameya savings circle, as the kingdom prepares a new National Savings Strategy aimed at bringing more household money into the banking system.&quot; #KSA [image or embed] &mdash; Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social) 3 February&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[937,277,114],"tags":[306,279,55,450],"class_list":["post-9243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ksa","category-saudi-arabia","category-saudi-arabia-internet","tag-fintech","tag-ksa","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-saudi-arabia-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9244,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions\/9244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}