Ooredoo Fintech takes home two wins at Middle East Technology Excellence Awards 2025

The company clinched the Mobile - Financial Technology and the Fintech - Financial Technology categories.

Ooredoo Fintech, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Ooredoo Group, secured two major accolades at the Middle East Technology Excellence Awards 2025 for the success of its digital wallet application, walletii. The company won in both the Mobile - Financial Technology and Fintech - Financial Technology categories.

“This recognition is a testament to the dedication of our teams who are building a product that makes financial services more accessible and inclusive across the MENA region,” said Mirko Giacco, CEO of Ooredoo Fintech. “With walletii, we are not only transforming how people manage money but also enabling a more connected and empowered digital society.”

walletii is redefining how users interact with financial services daily — from digital wallets and international remittances to bill payments and financial literacy tools — within a seamless, secure mobile experience.

Currently live in Oman and preparing for launch in Tunisia and additional MENA markets, walletii has been built around a “build once, deploy everywhere” strategy. This approach allows Ooredoo Fintech to roll out quickly across diverse markets whilst accommodating local regulations, integrations, languages, and feature variations — all from a single engineering codebase and team.

“We’ve worked hard to build a scalable, modular product architecture that allows us to move fast without compromising experience or local market needs,” said Ankit Tharwani, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Ooredoo Fintech. “Our technology foundation ensures we’re ready for rapid expansion whilst maintaining a high-quality experience in every market.”

Modular architecture built on NX Workspaces

To power this strategy, Ooredoo Fintech has adopted NX Workspaces to architect a unified mobile monorepo. This marks a deliberate shift from managing separate, per-country codebases to a shared, modular architecture that accelerates development, testing, and release cycles.

The application is structured around an atomic design system, with foundational building blocks — such as UI components, themes, icons, and shared utilities — feeding into a higher-level component layer used to compose forms, screens, and user journeys. This architecture promotes clear separation between shared logic and market-specific features, allowing for both consistency and flexibility.

Each country build can selectively override or extend components where needed, resulting in apps that feel fully native whilst benefitting from a common, reusable foundation.

Scalable backend and deployment infrastructure

On the backend, walletii operates on a microservices-based architecture with full containerisation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). This allows the platform to support hybrid deployments — whether on public cloud or on-premise infrastructure — depending on each market’s regulatory and data residency requirements.

By standardising infrastructure deployment and CI/CD pipelines, Ooredoo Fintech ensures agility and cost efficiency while remaining compliant across jurisdictions. The architecture also enables workload portability, letting teams dynamically shift services between environments to manage capacity, availability, or compliance constraints.

Engineered for multi-market scale

Whilst the initial setup required deliberate investment in architecture and tooling, the benefits are now clear as walletii expands across the region. The use of NX Workspaces, monorepo governance, and component-level reuse has allowed Ooredoo Fintech to: accelerate time-to-market for new countries, maintain clean separation of concerns, reduce maintenance overhead, deliver consistent, localised user experiences, and improve engineering collaboration across domains.

These awards reaffirm Ooredoo Fintech’s commitment to its mission of financially empowering consumers and merchants by offering safe, secure, and cost-effective access to a wide range of financial services and solutions. With walletii set to expand into new markets, the company is poised to continue shaping the future of digital finance in the Middle East region and beyond.

Middle East Technology Excellence Awards honours the remarkable achievements of both homegrown and international firms in shaping the Middle East’s evolving technological landscape, acknowledging their innovations, strategic growth, and contributions to economic and community development.

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