Tarabut, a regulated open banking platform operating across Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, has acquired Servable.dev, a Bahrain-based full-stack AI engineering company serving regulated industries. The deal positions Tarabut to expand from open banking connectivity into what it describes as a full-stack, AI-native financial platform, aiming to help banks and fintechs move beyond basic data access into real-time, intelligent financial decisioning delivered securely, compliantly, and at scale.
Tarabut said it will integrate Servable’s enterprise AI capabilities directly into its platform to speed delivery of advanced use cases across its roadmap, including income verification, credit risk assessment, fraud detection, compliance automation, and more personalized customer experiences. The combined offering is intended to emphasize governance, data privacy, explainability, and cost control—areas that remain key hurdles for regulated financial institutions deploying AI into production.
Servable brings a “production-ready” AI engineering platform designed for heavily regulated environments, organized around three components: a Data Agent to generate and curate synthetic and privacy-preserving datasets on demand, an AI Lab for secure model training, evaluation, and testing across both traditional machine learning and large language models, and an AI Gateway that serves as a unified control plane for governed deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of AI models in production. Tarabut framed these capabilities as enabling institutions to shift from experimentation to auditable, explainable, regulator-ready AI systems.
The announcement also highlighted Servable’s traction in operational settings—supporting financial reporting, decision support, operational automation, and customer engagement—along with built-in controls for security, privacy, and operational resilience. Tarabut additionally noted that Servable won first place at the 22nd StartUp Bahrain Pitch in December 2025, pointing to external recognition of the company’s enterprise AI innovation.
Strategically, Tarabut characterized the acquisition as part of a longer-term plan to combine open finance connectivity, real-time payments, and AI-driven intelligence into a single regulated platform tailored to the GCC market’s accelerating focus on AI-enabled decisioning, efficiency, and personalization. The company positioned the integration to embed intelligence directly at the point of customer interaction and financial decision-making, while continuing to invest locally and export “homegrown” financial and AI engineering capabilities across the Middle East.
Tarabut was founded in Bahrain and operates across Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.
KEY QUOTES
“Tarabut was founded in Bahrain, and our ambition has always been to build world-class financial infrastructure from the region, for the region. Bringing Servable into the group allows us to embed AI engineering, governance, and decisioning directly into our platform—strengthening our ability to help banks deliver simpler, faster, and more secure access to finance at scale.”
Abdulla Almoayed, Founder & CEO, Tarabut
“Servable was built to help regulated institutions move from AI experimentation to real-world outcomes, without compromising on security or governance. Joining Tarabut allows our technology—from synthetic data to LLM-based agents—to be deeply integrated into platforms that already power banks and fintechs across the region.”
Mohamed Alderazi, Founder & CEO, Servable.dev
