AEI September’s Top Ten covers major Saudi fintech funding for Tabby and barq, a new SME strategy targeting more than 500,000 jobs, and developments in tourism, trade and Riyadh’s global standing.

August brought a fresh wave of large-scale investment activity to Saudi Arabia, headlined by a PIF-led consortium's 206 billion SAR acquisition of Electronic Arts and a further 136 billion SAR in inward FDI as Vision 2030 enters its next phase.

July saw fresh momentum behind Saudi Arabia's investment pipeline, headlined by Brookfield's roughly $2 billion first close of a PIF-anchored Middle East fund alongside an MoU for I Squared Capital to invest up to $2 billion in the PIF portfolio.