How Access, Innovation and Ambition are Fuelling MENA’s E-Trading Boom
Digital finance is transforming how people trade, invest, and build wealth in the UAE. Find out more on how the Middle East is entering a defining moment in its financial evolution.
About the White Paper
Capital.com is committed to advancing a more inclusive, informed, and resilient financial future across all the markets in which it operates. In the Middle East— in particular the UAE where Capital.com is licensed by the SCA— digital finance is unlocking unprecedented access to global markets, transforming how people trade. To spark meaningful dialogue, encourage collaboration, and support policymakers, innovators, investors, and other stakeholders in guiding MENA’s e-trading momentum toward long-term, we are pleased to collaborate with APCO, to launch a new whitepaper that brings those trends into focus through verified data and regional insights.
The white paper, Trading’s New Horizon: How Access, Innovation and Ambition Are Fuelling MENA’s E-Trading Boom, captures this shift in real time. Drawing on exclusive Capital.com data and APCO’s regional expertise, it provides one of the most comprehensive examinations to date of how financial participation is being redefined across MENA.
The region is developing its own model for digital finance, built on responsibility and trust. As our analysis shows, MENA’s traders are younger, more diverse, and increasingly sophisticated compared with their global peers.
This white paper brings those trends into focus through verified data and regional insights, and looks ahead to the next frontier: ensuring that expanding access is matched by education, that participation is anchored in trust, and that innovation is grounded in accountability.
You can download the full whitepaper below in English or Arabic to explore the findings in depth.
About Capital.com
Capital.com is a high-growth fintech company empowering people to participate in financial markets through user-friendly and innovative online trading platforms. Launched in 2016, its intuitive award-winning platform —available on web and app —enables people to trade thousands of world-renowned markets. To help users inform their trading decisions, the platform is fitted with robust risk management controls, transparent pricing and extensive educational content to support clients in their trading journeys.
Capital.com is one of the fastest-growing trading platforms in the sector with annual client trading volumes exceeding $1.7 trillion. In 2024, the company was recognised as the fastest growing tech-enabled platform in the Middle East and Cyprus for the third-straight year by Deloitte Technology’s Fast 50 programme. Capital.com has a global network with offices located in leading business and financial centres including London, Dubai, Warsaw, Nassau, Sofia, Limassol, Milan and Melbourne.