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Building a Regulated Crypto Business from MENA | Ep. 78 with Talal Tabbaa, Coin MENA

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What safeguards exist for users in the evolving crypto landscape? In this episode, we are joined by our guest Talal Tabaa, CEO and Co-Founder of CoinMENA, a cryptocurrency exchange licensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain. He also serves on the Board of Middle East Payment Services (MEPS) in Amman, Jordan, and on the advisory board of the Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy. As a co-founder Jibrel Network, a blockchain development company based in Zug, Switzerland. Prior to crypto, Talal worked in financial and supply chain consulting services at PwC as well as managing a private investment fund in Saudi Arabia. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering (Economics Minor) from Purdue University, IN, USA.

Join us, as Talal delves into the essential “trade-off” between regulation and a user-friendly crypto ecosystem, as automation technology in business transactions, safeguards against scams and fake IDs. Discover how blockchain execution can bridge the gap between ICO (Initial Coin Offerings) and real-world assets, creating a more transparent financial ecosystem.

Discover how blockchain execution can bridge the gap between ICO (Initial Coin Offerings) and real-world assets, creating a more transparent financial ecosystem.

🔍Listen to this Episode and learn:

🔷How Coin MENA integrates automation technology in real-time, shielding customers from scams and fake IDs.
🔷Benefits of crypto regulation by an authority instilling legitimacy of user’s transactions. 
🔷Coin MENA’s unique business model backed by agility and language customisation to global customer needs. 

Tune in to our latest episode of What$Next as Talal, to gain insights on the benefits of  implementing ICO’s, the ongoing transformations in crypto like DE-fi Tokens and the need for  crypto risk management for an enhanced user experience!

Episode Guest

Talal Tabbaa

CEO and Co-Founder at Coin MENA

Talal Tabbaa is the CEO and Co-Founder of CoinMENA, a cryptocurrency exchange licensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain. He also serves on the Board of Middle East Payment Services (MEPS) in Amman, Jordan, and on the advisory board of the Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy. He also co-founded Jibrel Network, a blockchain development company based in Zug, Switzerland. Prior to crypto, Talal worked in financial and supply chain consulting services at PwC as well as managing a private investment fund in Saudi Arabia. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering (Economics Minor) from Purdue University, IN, USA.

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Podcast hosts

Ronit Ghose

Ronit Ghose is the lead author of Citi’s GPS Bank of the Future and FinTech report series – the first edition has had more than 250,000 downloads making it the most read report ever published by Citi, and one of the most read FinTech reports ever published. Since joining Citi in 1997, Ronit has covered banks in the Americas, Asia and EMEA. He is the Global Head of Future of Finance in Citi Research. He is also an Advisory Board Member at the Centre for Finance, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. Ronit previously worked at the British Bankers’ Association and as a research assistant in Parliament. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford, a postgraduate diploma from the University of London and is a CFA charter holder.

Gaurav Dhar

Gaurav Dhar is the CEO of the Payments Solution Provider Marshal in Dubai. Gaurav has been working at Marshal for over 19 years now He strives to continually be on the frontier of building FinTech ecosystems and solutions. His personal time is spent on working with and investing directly in innovators, with a view to the future of Fintech both locally and globally via his cache of relationships which include VCs, incubators, accelerators, and start-ups and Angel Syndicates. In his position as a board member of the MENA FinTech Association and several advisory positions to international family offices, start-ups, and funds, he looks to grow the relationships within the FinTech and start-up ecosystem to contribute towards the education of budding disruptors and eventually the growth of economies and the job market where possible in the MEA Region and abroad.

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