With our proven and repeatable approach to building digital banks, we’re helping clients across the Middle East and North Africa discover new areas of business growth and innovative new customer experiences. Our approach is centered on creating a flexible, data-centric platform and organization, connecting to a rich ecosystem of fintech partners to deliver rapid value.
Financial Services in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
We’re Building the Future of Banking
Creating new areas of growth through innovative customer propositions
“It’s interesting, when you look at examples to say, ‘but did they make it real?’ With Publicis Sapient ... we have taken a dream and made it real.”
Chief Technology Officer,
Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank
With our deep understanding of the local financial system, we work closely with leading banks, regulators, tech partners and fintechs to build next-generation financial services.
Local Insights
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Insight
In MENA, Banks Have an Opportunity to Support a Critical Economic Sector
How digital transformation can increase Small and Medium Enterprise access to financing in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Insight
ADGM’s Richard Teng on opportunities in MENA
We sat down with the CEO of ADGM Financial Services Regulatory Authority to discuss digital transformation in the Middle East and how start-ups and SMEs can find success in the region.
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Insight
3 Ways UAE Retail Banks Can Accelerate Their Digital Journey
Covid-19 has highlighted the need for rapid digital transformation to better serve the needs of customers. Here’s how to fast-track that process…
How We’re Building the Future of Banking
We bring our full capabilities across strategy, human-centred design, operations, engineering and data science to create and deliver disruptive innovation–in a matter of months. Around the world, we’re building new propositions and new businesses that shift the basis of competition and create new sources of growth and prosperity.
Services at Publicis Sapient
We combine strategic thinking with a proven and repeatable approach to digital transformation
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Strategy & Consulting
Fusing business strategy with experience and engineering to accelerate growth and effectiveness
Customer Experience & Design
Impactful brands, products and services used by millions of people every day
Technology & Engineering
Build platforms that create new opportunities and accelerate business value
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Enterprise Platforms
Identify the best what, when, where and how for your audience
Data & Artificial Intelligence
Intelligence that drives value for your business
Product Management
Transform how you create new, customer- centric digital products
Get news and updates on the changes affecting Financial Services across MENA
Related Reading
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Research
Global Banking Benchmark Study
Banks are embracing digital in their transformation efforts – but how can they move faster and put digital and customers first? We surveyed more than 1,000 senior executives from Retail and Commercial Banks around the world to find out.
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Digital Wealth
Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow: Digital Wealth Management
The world of wealth management is on the verge of a massive paradigm shift. Evolving customer demographics, expectations and behaviors require new digital tools, strategies and experiences to sustain relevance and growth.
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Case Study
Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank (AGTB)
How AGTB became the world’s first fully digital trade finance bank in a matter of months.
