{"id":2970,"date":"2025-03-04T09:56:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T06:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksa.fintechnews.media\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2025-03-04T09:56:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T06:56:50","slug":"saudis-sama-licenses-tamara-finance-to-provide-consumer-finance-bnpl-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksa.fintechnews.media\/?p=2970","title":{"rendered":"Saudi&#8217;s SAMA licenses &#8216;Tamara Finance&#8217; to provide consumer finance, BNPL services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh: The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sama.gov.sa\/en-US\/Pages\/default.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi Central Bank (SAMA)<\/a> licensed \u201cTamara Finance\u201d company to provide consumer finance and buy-now-pay-later services.<\/p>\n<p>The addition brings the number of finance companies licensed and permitted by SAMA to 65 companies.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release issued today, SAMA\u2019s focus reflects its keenness to support the finance sector, increase the efficiency of financial transactions, and promote innovative solutions for financial inclusion in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>SAMA emphasizes the importance of dealing exclusively with authorized financial institutions, the statement said. To view licensed and permitted financial institutions, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/ksa.fintechnews.media\/saudi-arabia-fintech-sector-flourishes-with-over-1-billion-in-revenues-set-to-become-global-leader-says-top-sama-official\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SAMA&#8217;s official<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh: The Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) licensed &ldquo;Tamara Finance&rdquo; company to provide consumer finance and buy-now-pay-later services. The addition brings the number of finance companies licensed and permitted by SAMA to 65 companies. In a press release issued today, SAMA&rsquo;s focus reflects its keenness to support the finance sector, increase the efficiency of financial transactions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[613],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksa.fintechnews.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksa.fintechnews.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksa.fintechnews.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksa.fintechnews.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksa.fintechnews.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ksa.fintechnews.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2974,"href":"https:\/\/ksa.fintechnews.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/2974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksa.fintechnews.media\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksa.fintechnews.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksa.fintechnews.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksa.fintechnews.media\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}