Saudi Arabia • Mar 26, 2026

Saudi Arabia's Q1 market-opening package now sits beside a visible digital infrastructure build-out

The actual foreign-investor access expansion was the 5/6 January 2026 reform: CMA Board Resolution No. 1-2-2026 and CMA_N_3974 removed the QFI concept for the Main Market and opened direct investment to all foreign natural and legal persons from 1 February 2026.

Saudi Arabia • Nov 16, 2025

Saudi Central Bank extends tokenized commercial-bank money experimentation into collateral workflows

By then, the strongest official public evidence showed that SAMA had disclosed two distinct Innovation Hub proofs of concept: a blockchain project to automate collateral pledging and a live multi-party test of tokenized commercial-bank money.

Saudi Arabia • Oct 7, 2025

Saudi Arabia's Edaa is expanding from depository utility into fund-distribution and debt-servicing infrastructure

The source stack describes an operational shift, not a generic market-development message.

Saudi Arabia • Oct 7, 2025

Saudi Arabia’s Muqassa turns broader collateral eligibility into the next phase of repo-market buildout

The October 2025 Muqassa disclosure compresses a sequence of already visible operating changes into one official signal: repo clearing is live; collateral eligibility has widened from a narrow Saudi-government-sukuk starting point to a broader Saudi government sukuk-and-bond set; non-SAR cash is now eligible; and single-security concentration has been relaxed.

Saudi Arabia • Jul 9, 2025

Saudi fund access and debt disclosure now move together under CMA's July 2025 package

CMA's July 2025 package expands digital fund distribution and lets public funds buy privately offered domestic debt in the Kingdom.