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Blockchain PoS: Prevent Tax Evasion And Make Immediate Settlement
Ateon and STC MoU for collaboration with to offer FinTech solutions for every business segment across Saudi Arabia. Blockchain PoS and Blockchain VAT were immediately identified opportunities.
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Financial Inclusion with Sugi Card from Sofitto
Sofitto provides tools for financial access to facilitate day-to-day living, and to help families and businesses plan for everything from long-term goals to unexpected emergencies. Along with Ateon, solutions were pitched to several central banks in the region.
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Digital Transformation is More Than Lipstick on a Pretty Old Goat
By: Husam Yaghi The digital transformation of financial institutions is a dire need demanded by the new generation (Generation Z) who are glued to their hand-held devices. Because of the slow response to those…
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Banks & Fintechs: Adversaries or Partners?
By: Husam Yaghi “Financial technology or “FinTech” describes the use of new and disruptive technology in financial services.” FinTech is not a new concept, but part of an evolution. Western Union used the telegraph technology…
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Blockchain for Islamic Finance
Blockchain is a revolutionary technology which has the potential to disrupt various sectors, but has not yet gained the mainstream acceptance it deserves, partly because of its first application, bitcoin, which has soaked up headlines…
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How Blockchain Enables Cardless Secure Access To ATMs
Dr. Husam Yaghi designed for Ateon a Blackchain-based system by which users are securely authenticated when accessing a participating ATM machine – no card is required, yet it is not a QR system.
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Saudi Women and the Blockchain: Technology for Social Impact
Saudi Arabia is transforming socially and economically. Recently the ban on women driving was left among several other initiatives to encourage women direct participation in the transformation of the country. Globally, the percentage of women…
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Patients Health Records Management
Health records of patients start with proper management of their identity. Identity is a foundational element of all blockchain work in Healthcare. Identity solutions have the capability to solve problems in today’s marketplace, while providing…
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Amazon is a threat to banks
Amazon is a threat to banks — just not in the way you think by: TANAYA MACHEEL | AUGUST 28, 2017 • Amazon is disrupting banks, but not because they’re stealing customers; because they’re becoming…
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What is Blockchain?
Blockchain’s applications are still being determined, but the ability to facilitate transactions without the need for a central authority, combined with the speed and cost benefits, are among the features that have so many interested…
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Interview with Husam Yaghi By Arabian Business
Tell us about Ateon Dr. Husam Yaghi Co-Founded Ateon (www.ateon.net) in 2016 to offer FinTech solutions to clients in Saudi Arabia. Ateon was the first company to offer Blockchain-based FinTech solutions in Saudi Arabia and…
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Leave a Legacy
Dr. Husam Yaghi is an accomplished professional with a strong business acumen and a profound understanding of regional and global trends in emerging technologies, with over 30 years of diverse experience, including 10 years of teaching and research at…