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ADIB Ventures

Our Vision & Mission

Backing visionary founders to deliver long-term value and reshape the future of finance

Vision:

To be the region’s leading hub for fintech innovation, forging strategic partnerships that redefine how people and businesses connect with their bank, while advancing the future of Islamic finance.

Mission:

To create enduring value for our customers, employees, and shareholders by enabling visionary founders and innovators to deliver meaningful, long term impact.

A platform:

We foster a structured and collaborative ecosystem that unites fintechs, startups, and ADIB to assess ideas rigorously, unlock meaningful opportunities, and scale digital solutions within regulated banking environments.

Our Focus Areas:

Discover

  • Themes - themes defined and aligned to Group Strategy Map
  • Prioritization - which themes are most important and FinTech partnership is required
  • Point of Contact - single funnel CRM for all conversation, however limited points of contact
  • Accelerators - partner with DIFC & Hub71 for cohorts

Define

  • One-Pager - explaining the proposition and what is the purpose of the engagement
  • Check Point - making sure a checklist of criteria is met before proceeding to next stage
  • Budget & Resources - ensuring any investment which is required to deliver POC is approved
  • Compatibility Check - Competition, Company Stage, Complexity, Sharia, GICD, Regulatory & FCC.

Deliver

  • Lean Artefacts - NDAs, MOUs, FCC & Sharia Review for Pilot
  • Integrations - integrations with staging or pre-prod environments using secure solutions
  • Education - evangelizing the proposition through the company to explain the proposition
  • Lean Portfolio Management - feed into the overall digital roadmap for the group with clear KPIs

Our Approach:

Discover

  • Scouting - clarity on how we reach out to startups
  • Inbound Site - how do they contact us
  • Events - have presence at key events
  • Accelerators - partner with DIFC & Hub71 for cohorts

Define

  • Maturity - at what stage do we engage with startups, post-launch & revenue
  • Engagement Model - what is our engagement model before any commercial discussions
  • APIs - allow companies to start consuming our end points from the start
  • Co-Create - identify if any capabilities could be built together with ADIB

Deliver

  • End of Life Cycle - how to end and engagement
  • Investment - how to invest in the company to continue growth
  • Product Innovation - how to learn from the FinTech and continue collaboration while also innovating internally

About ADIB

A Leading Islamic bank with a Strong Customer Franchise

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