Dear all, I’m pleased to announce the release of AraFinNews, the largest Arabic financial-news summarisation dataset to date. GitHub: https://github.com/ArabicNLP-UK/AraFinNews HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/datasets/drelhaj/AraFinNews Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01265 AraFinNews includes 212,500 article–headline pairs (2015–2025) from reputable financial media, making it a strong Arabic counterpart to benchmarks like CNN/DailyMail. It provides clean structured text and article-level metadata, with ready-to-use splits for summarisation and for building downstream financial NLP tasks. Using this dataset, we evaluated mT5, AraT5, and the domain-adapted FinAraT5, with results demonstrating clear gains from financial-domain pretraining in headline generation. Best wishes, Mo

See more of our NLP datasets and tools on:

ArabicNLP.uk https://arabicnlp.uk/

HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/drelhaj

GitHub: https://github.com/drelhaj

ArabicNLP-UK: https://github.com/orgs/ArabicNLP-UK/

UCREL: https://github.com/UCREL

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Dr Mo El-Haj Director of NLP @ VinUniversity Reader (Associate Professor) in NLP CECS, VinUniversity, Vietnam SCC, Lancaster University, UK https://elhaj.ukhttps://elhaj.uk/ https://vinnlp.comhttps://vinnlp.com/