Research & Intelligence for Banks and Fintechs in MENA.

We help banks and fintechs in MENA understand their customers, benchmark competitors, and build better digital products — through primary research, usability testing, and strategic intelligence.

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Outperform your competition

Market & Competitor Benchmarking.

Know how your experience stacks up. We analyze features, flows, and UX of your local and international competitors to identify market gaps and raise your digital standards above the rest. We specialize in retail and business banking products across the UAE and MENA region.

UAE · MENA · Retail & business banking

Real users, real feedback

Usability Testing Lab in the Heart of Dubai.

Test in our Dubai-based usability lab with eye tracking, live streaming, and curated participants. Join on-site or remotely.

A participant at a screen in the Ruyent usability testing lab in Dubai
A mystery shopper recording a branch interaction

Mystery Shopper Studies

Experience what your customers do

We go undercover across your product and service touchpoints — online or in-person — to surface pain points, friction, and missed expectations, straight from a customer’s point of view.

Digital · Branch · Call centre

Stay close to your customers

Voice of Customer studies

We collect, analyze, and synthesize qualitative feedback across journeys — from interviews to intercepts — to bring your customer’s voice into product, design, and service decisions.

Spread from a Ruyent voice of customer study

Interviews · Intercepts · Panels

Friction in digital account opening is rarely one broken screen — it is four small hesitations in a row.
Ruyent benchmarking programme

Our latest work.

Covers of recent Ruyent case studies

Q3 2025 · Published

SME Digital Banking in Egypt: A Competitive Benchmarking Report

Deep dive on SME and Business banking landscape in Egypt. Focus on Digital Account Opening and key journeys.

Q1 2025 · Published

Status of Open Banking in MENA region

Comprehensive analysis of Open banking implementation in financial services in MENA and International markets.

Q4 2025

Spotlight: How do customers want to interact with banks?

Quantitative study to understand how banking customers expect to interact with banks when facing issues and requesting for help.

Coming soon

Q1 2026

Digital Account Opening: UAE and Intl complete landscape

Among the leading banks, which one does it better when proposing a digital account opening process? What are the strengths and opportunities to improve?

Coming soon
Cover of a Ruyent case study

Tell us which journey you want read.

Send the product, the market, and the question. We come back with a scope, a timeline, and the benchmark set we would run it against.