ABHI launches early salary access in Saudi Arabia with QBS

ABHI, the Karachi founded earned wage access company, has launched its early salary service in Saudi Arabia, Arab News reported on 12 May 2026. The service is run by Abhi Saudi, powered by Alraedah Digital Solutions, and its first employer partner is QBS, a local firm whose employees can now draw part of their earned wages at any point in the month. The partnership was signed in Riyadh on 11 May.

The company says the product is designed to reduce workers' reliance on short term borrowing. Omair Ansari, ABHI's cofounder and chief executive, told Arab News that earned wage access bridges the gap between earning and access, and benefits both employers and employees. Faraz Ahmed Quddusi, chief executive of QBS, said the deal reflected his company's commitment to an employee first workplace in the Kingdom.

Saudi Arabia is ABHI's second Gulf market after the UAE, and this was not its first step there. A September 2026 report by Digital Pakistan on a later partnership with Red Sea International says ABHI entered the Kingdom in 2024 through Alraedah, and other employers it names include Alruqee Group, Squadio and Syarah. In September 2026 the company also said its product had received Shariah approval from the committee of Badiha Company in Saudi Arabia.

ABHI, founded in 2021, says it has partnered with more than 7,000 companies and now operates in Pakistan, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Oman, having expanded from earned wage access into payroll, SME financing and cross border services.