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Bridging TradFi and Digital Assets: Our Partnership with ZagTrader in MENA

We are proud to announce a new partnership with ZagTrader, a leading global financial technology company in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This collaboration establishes direct institutional connectivity between the Zag Financial Network (ZagFN) and the OKX trading platform across MENA.

Through this integration, ZagTrader’s clients now have direct access to our liquidity, price feeds, and trading infrastructure. This simplifies workflows, improves efficiency, and allows institutional investors to participate in digital asset markets with confidence and control. We are the first global exchange to offer this level of institutional access through ZagTrader.

Institutional interest in digital assets continues to grow. Hedge funds, asset managers, and family offices are increasingly viewing crypto as a core part of a diversified portfolio, driven by the transparency, efficiency, and innovation blockchain technology brings to financial markets.

At OKX, we see institutional participation as critical to the long-term health of digital assets. It brings stability, liquidity, and credibility - all key to sustainable growth. This partnership caters directly to that, offering institutions both scale and efficiency.

The MENA region is rapidly emerging as a global hub for digital finance, thanks to progressive regulation, a forward-thinking approach to technology, and a growing institutional base. Partnerships like this are helping shape a secure, inclusive, and efficient ecosystem that empowers institutions to explore, adopt, and innovate with digital assets.

We are excited to continue building the infrastructure that makes institutional participation seamless, compliant, and impactful, one partnership at a time.

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