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Middle East CBDCs

Middle Eastern profiles include active cross-border participation and wholesale-focused pilots.

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Jurisdictions Covered

  • United Arab Emirates
  • Saudi Arabia

Cross-Border Projects

  • mBridge

Reference Answers

Audited answers for common page-level questions, with citations and date context.

Is the Middle East region page mostly about wholesale and cross-border CBDC work?

medium confidenceAs of 2026-04-22

Yes. The UAE and Saudi Arabia entries are best read as infrastructure and cross-border pilot coverage rather than broad consumer-scale retail launch pages, with mBridge and related settlement work shaping the region's profile.

  • The UAE and Saudi programmes are still pilot-stage in the registry.
  • mBridge and related settlement work are central to the region's public evidence base.
  • The current evidence does not justify describing either programme as a mature live retail rollout.

Caveats

  • Region-level summaries should not collapse wholesale pilots into implied retail launch claims.

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