About Fils
Fils is a Dubai-based fintech company that combines payments with sustainability. Its technology aims to help businesses build climate action and environmental impact into the way they accept and process payments. The name comes from the fils, the smallest unit of the UAE dirham.
Payments are one of the most frequent interactions between businesses and their customers. Every transaction creates an opportunity to measure, communicate or offset environmental impact. Climate-focused payment infrastructure explores how to use these moments, for example by calculating the carbon footprint associated with purchases or allowing customers to contribute to climate projects at checkout.
For businesses, such tools can support sustainability commitments and give customers visible ways to take part. For customers, they can make climate action simple and connected to everyday spending.
Payment infrastructure providers typically offer their technology through APIs and integrations, allowing merchants, platforms and financial institutions to add features without building them from scratch. Combining payment processing with sustainability functions in one system can reduce complexity.
Transparency is important in climate-related products. Businesses and customers need confidence that impact calculations are credible and that any contributions support genuine, verified projects.
As a relatively young company, Fils is part of an emerging category that brings together fintech and climate technology, sometimes called climate fintech.
The UAE has placed sustainability at the centre of its national agenda, hosting COP28 in 2023 and committing to net zero emissions by 2050. Financial regulators and institutions in the country have also developed sustainable finance frameworks.
At the same time, the UAE has one of the most advanced digital payments markets in the region, with high card and wallet usage.
Growing corporate sustainability reporting requirements are pushing businesses to measure and reduce the environmental impact of their operations and supply chains.
Fils sits at the intersection of payments and sustainability, and Startups UAE lists it among Dubai's climate fintech startups.
Payments are one of the most frequent interactions between businesses and their customers. Every transaction creates an opportunity to measure, communicate or offset environmental impact. Climate-focused payment infrastructure explores how to use these moments, for example by calculating the carbon footprint associated with purchases or allowing customers to contribute to climate projects at checkout.
For businesses, such tools can support sustainability commitments and give customers visible ways to take part. For customers, they can make climate action simple and connected to everyday spending.
Payment infrastructure providers typically offer their technology through APIs and integrations, allowing merchants, platforms and financial institutions to add features without building them from scratch. Combining payment processing with sustainability functions in one system can reduce complexity.
Transparency is important in climate-related products. Businesses and customers need confidence that impact calculations are credible and that any contributions support genuine, verified projects.
As a relatively young company, Fils is part of an emerging category that brings together fintech and climate technology, sometimes called climate fintech.
The UAE has placed sustainability at the centre of its national agenda, hosting COP28 in 2023 and committing to net zero emissions by 2050. Financial regulators and institutions in the country have also developed sustainable finance frameworks.
At the same time, the UAE has one of the most advanced digital payments markets in the region, with high card and wallet usage.
Growing corporate sustainability reporting requirements are pushing businesses to measure and reduce the environmental impact of their operations and supply chains.
Fils sits at the intersection of payments and sustainability, and Startups UAE lists it among Dubai's climate fintech startups.