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  • Opus Technologies Targets Banking and Fintech Opportunities Across Middle East and Asia-Pacific

    Opus Technologies Strengthens Middle East and Asia-Pacific Presence

    ATLANTA: Opus Technologies is expanding its presence in Dubai and Singapore as it looks to strengthen its position in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific banking, payments, and fintech markets, where financial institutions are increasingly investing in digital transformation, real-time payments, and AI-led innovation.

    The expansion will bring Opus Technologies closer to financial institutions, payment service providers, and fintech companies across two strategically important financial markets.

    The move also builds on the company’s engagement with a leading regional payments processor in the Middle East, extending its involvement in complex and regulated payments environments.

    Dubai and Singapore are emerging as important markets for the banking and payments ecosystem, driven by the growing adoption of real-time payments, cross-border commerce, digital financial services, and artificial intelligence.

    By strengthening its regional presence, Opus Technologies aims to work more closely with financial institutions as they modernize technology platforms and explore new ways to translate technology investments into business outcomes.

    Opus Technologies Brings AI-Powered Engineering Closer to Financial Institutions

    A key part of Opus Technologies’ expansion strategy is its Domain Native Engineering (DNE) approach, which combines domain expertise with AI-powered engineering to help enterprises accelerate product development, streamline operations, and improve returns on technology investments.

    The approach integrates AI-powered engineering with domain ontologies that structure enterprise knowledge and make it reusable as context for AI solutions.

    By incorporating industry, business, and payments-related knowledge throughout the solution development process, Opus aims to help engineering teams accelerate delivery, address complex business challenges, and improve business outcomes.

    For banking and payments companies navigating increasingly complex technology requirements, this approach is designed to connect engineering capabilities with a deeper understanding of industry-specific challenges.

    “Dubai and Singapore are important to our global growth strategy because of the pace of change across financial services and the opportunity to work more closely with clients.

    By strengthening our presence in these markets, we can bring our payments expertise and AI-powered engineering capabilities closer to the challenges our clients are solving,” said Srini Rajamani, Chief Executive Officer, Opus Technologies.

    Opus Technologies to Invest in Regional Talent and Delivery Capabilities

    Beyond expanding its geographical footprint, Opus Technologies plans to invest in regional talent, client engagement, delivery capabilities, and ecosystem partnerships.

    These investments will be aligned with local market conditions and regulatory requirements, supporting closer collaboration with financial institutions and technology partners across the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.

    The company’s expansion comes at a time when enterprises are looking for engineering partners that can help them accelerate technology transformation while improving the commercial value of their investments.

    Opus Technologies believes its Domain Native Engineering approach can address this requirement by combining AI-powered engineering capabilities with reusable enterprise knowledge.

    “Enterprises need engineering partners that can improve both the speed to market and economics of transformation.

    Our Domain Native Engineering approach combines AI-powered engineering with reusable enterprise knowledge to help clients accelerate innovation and realize greater value from technology investments,” said Prakash Dev, Chief Revenue Officer, Opus Technologies.

    Through its expansion into Dubai and Singapore, Opus Technologies aims to deepen existing client relationships, develop its regional ecosystem, and support financial institutions in modernizing technology platforms and accelerating innovation.

    The company will focus on helping banking, payments, and fintech businesses across the Middle East and Asia-Pacific navigate technological changes while maximizing the value of their engineering investments.

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    • Salil Urunkar

      Salil Urunkar is a senior journalist and the editorial mind behind Sahyadri Startups. With years of experience covering Pune’s entrepreneurial rise, he’s passionate about telling the real stories of founders, disruptors, and game-changers.

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