🧠TL;DR

  • 🏦 3 Mn non-dilutive marketing growth capital

    Amwal secured a 3 Mn SAR non-dilutive marketing spend commitment from Saudi National Bank

  • 🚀 30 Mn consumer financing capital from Tajeer finance

    Amwal is finalizing an agreement to pilot a new embedded consumer finance product with Tajeer finance.

  • ✈️ Expansion into the travel sector

  • ALMATAR, one of Saudi Arabia’s largest travel aggregator has just signed with Amwal.

  • Alternative Airlines, a major international airlines BNPL provider , is going live with AMWAL in 2026. brand with a strong footprint across the Gulf.

🚀 3M Committed Marketing Investment from Saudi National Bank

This is one of the strongest proof of institutional product-market fit to date.
  • Bank endorsement is one of the hardest moats in fintech. This commitment signals long-term alignment and product readiness for massive scale.

  • The spend commitment will be divided into two equal tranches, and will involve above the line and below the line pushes through SMS, push notification social media, and out of door marketing spend.

  • This is one of the best subsidies for growth and the best GTM channel we can ask for. The first spend should coincide with Ramandan.

  • Beyond the obvious wins, we see the following structural second-order effects:

    • CAC = 0 in seasons such as Ramadan and Eid.

    • Better merchant take-rate leverage

    • Faster merchant adoption (“bank will co-sell to large merchants”)

25-30 Mn consumer financing capital from Tajeer finance

We are expanding beyond banks to offer more embedded finance options at the checkout
  • Tajeer finance, a company owned by Alsulaiman group, is piloting a new consumer finance product through AMWAL with an initial capital pool of 30 Mn.

  • Amwal will manage the payment infrastructure, merchant onboarding and reconciliation, while Tajeer will manage the underwriting, risk assessment, and the loans servicing.

  • This initiative further positions Amwal as a new market leader in embedded financing and allows us to expand beyond card-based installments into direct consumer credit—fully embedded at checkout.

Example customer journey for a micro-finance loan powered by AMWAL

Merchants update

Welcoming Almatar to AMWAL

We have signed a strategic partnership with Almatar, to enable bank-installments for millions of their users.

We are starting our technical integration, and expect them to go-live before end of year.

🏆 End of year letter

For more details about the Amwal 2025 highlights, please see the report below.

Amwal-EOY update 2025.pdf

Amwal_annual_letter.pdf

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