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DECEMBER 14, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, Chase Bank and Mastercard have joined forces with Air Canada to debut the airline’s Aeroplan credit card in the U.S., Chase Bank and Mastercard have teamed with Air Canada to debut the air carrier’s Aeroplan credit card in the United States.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Tencent Holdings , the company that developed mobile payment app WeChat Pay, has teamed up with Network International to allow for the service to be available across the United Arab Emirates, according to a release on Monday (Feb 24). . The app has more than 1 billion users around the world.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

5) that it has worked with law enforcement and customs agencies around the world to seize 3.5 In addition to seizures of the counterfeit machines at customs checkpoints, 3M said there have also been raids around the world by local authorities on suspected resellers and makers of the counterfeit products.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

That can hold especially true in wealthy countries, such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as discussed in a new PYMNTS interview with Evans Munyuki, chief digital officer of Emirates NBD , a UAE banking group. However, that’s changing. New Venture. The new venture, E20, is geared toward entrepreneurs and SMBs.

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JULY 15, 2021

Money transfer service Western Union has announced the launch of direct to account payout transfers from the United Arab Emirates to the world.

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JUNE 30, 2020

In the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia, that figure is higher, where 8 out of 10 transactions in Saudi Arabia and more than half of transactions in the UAE, are made with contactless cards or devices, Visa said. This crisis is, if anything, accelerating the growth of digital platforms,” he said. “A

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JUNE 16, 2017

As the tech world takes over most everyday activities, the publishing world is no different. Now, Storytel is looking to expand its services into Spain, India, the United Arab Emirates and Russia. At this point in time, the company is servicing Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Poland.

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JULY 5, 2020

So far, RIL has sold 25 percent stake in Jio to some of the world’s biggest players including Facebook, General Atlantic, TPG, KKR, Silver Lake, L Catterton, Vista Equity Partners, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Mubadala Investment Co., an investment arm of the government of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), invested $1.2

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JANUARY 16, 2020

“In other parts of the world, Bose stores will remain open, including approximately 130 stores located in Greater China and the United Arab Emirates, and additional stores in India, Southeast Asia and South Korea,” the company said. Bose also talked about how it tried to keep up with changing technological trends. “In

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MAY 4, 2020

Uber will also “transition operations” to Careem in the United Arab Emirates. This continues our strategy of focusing our energy and resources on our top Eats markets around the world,” the company said, adding that the moves will not affect its ridesharing business. .

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MARCH 13, 2019

Open banking is a bit more than a year old in the United Kingdom, and is viewed positively by a majority of financial institutions. The announcement noted that 150 startups globally have participated in FinTech Sandbox through the past four years.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

over New York because “investors in this part of the world are closer to Kazakhstan and understand it better,” CEO and Kaspi shareholder Mikhail Lomtadze said. Another recent IPO filing on the LSE is Finablr , a United Arab Emirates (UAE) payments company. London was the choice for Kaspi.kz percent over three years.”.

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MARCH 30, 2017

I’ve just returned from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) where there were a number of events. What also astounds me is that I’ve been coming to the region for fifteen years, and remember first visiting Dubai when it had just a few tall buildings and the Burj al Arab hotel. I keep wondering who will occupy these buildings?

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

UAE Exchange, the United Arab Emirates-based company, and Ripple, the blockchain technology company based in the U.S., are gearing up to launch cross-border remittances to Asia using blockchain technology.

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MAY 22, 2020

The impact of COVID-19 crisis on the world economy during 2020 is projected to be greater than the 2008-09 financial crisis,” the survey’s authors wrote.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

“Technological advancements are creating enormous efficiency gains while fundamentally changing the skills required for workers to succeed and flourish in their careers — and that’s where Udacity has a window to change the world for the better and at meaningful scale.”.

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JUNE 1, 2020

“A lot of people who would go out in the offline world and do things are now forced to do things digitally.”. Despite laying off nearly a third of its workforce last month, Sheikha said the United Arab Emirates ride-hailing firm has not put the brakes on expansion.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are attempting to square away increasing consumer use of online channels with their privacy and banking standards. Around The Data Protection World. Regulators in countries like Egypt have only recently rolled out their data protection rules.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to lending — to say nothing of the wider world of payments — innovation and disruption have been on the rise in recent years thanks to digital and mobile technology, along with online marketplace models. Regulators the world over are beginning to take a closer look at the alternative and marketplace lending business model.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

In this week’s look at payment rails innovation, PYMNTS finds a slew of new markets around the world adopting entirely new payment networks that can support their demand for real-time transactions. Speed drives innovation, particularly in payments. UAE Taps Ripple For Global Payments. Qatar Embraces SWIFT gpi.

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APRIL 9, 2019

Finablr , a United Arab Emirates (UAE) payments company, is gearing up to launch an initial public offering in the U.K., That gives the company access to about 60 percent of the migrant population around the world. aiming to raise at least $200 million. million at the end of last year, as well as to expand.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Deliveroo is offered in over 500 cities across 13 markets — Australia, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. . Amazon wants to be able to compete with rival Uber Eats and needed a well-known inroad into the food delivery world.

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MARCH 29, 2017

While the financial details have yet to be disclosed, Reuters said Goldman Sachs, which oversaw and advised the deal, called Amazon’s acquisition of Souq.com the “the biggest-ever technology M&A transaction in the Arab world.”.

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JULY 9, 2019

Consumers around the world are showing increased interest in contactless payments, with 75 percent of United Arab Emirates (UAE) consumers expressing trust for contactless cards and 82 percent trusting mobile wallets. Around the Mobile Point-of-Sale World.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Network International ’s rollout of Google Pay acceptance in the United Arab Emirates. In addition, De Lijn has chosen Conduent Transportation for a new fare collection system in Belgium , and U.K. And in the U.K.,

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Separately, but also tied to Ripple, a foreign exchange (FX) company based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — Finablr — has begun using Ripple’s blockchain offerings for cross-border payments. He added that the service would go live in Q1.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

Treasury will issue payments to millions of Americans via paper check, delivered in an envelope by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The latest Disbursements Tracker ® looks at developments around the world, from value-added tax (VAT) refund kiosks in the United Arab Emirates to first uses of the 3D Secure 2.0

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The NBAD now joins a growing list of banks around the world that have adopted the technology, including Santander, Standard Chartered and Unicredit. Finextra reports that the United Arab Emirates is ranked as the fourth top remittance-sending country in the world, accounting for more than $19 billion.

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MAY 11, 2017

In a press release , Western Union said wu.com is also active in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates. Canada and major parts of Europe.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

So it is in the business world, where shell games of a different sort can wreak havoc on a victim’s corporate coffers. The Financial Times ( FT ) reported that the auditing team from EY has come at the direction of hedge funds based in the United States that are on the Aegean board. News came Thursday (Nov.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Around The AML/KYC World. FIs in the United Arab Emirates are also looking to get ahead of fraud with improved digital KYC practices. The March AML/KYC Tracker® explores the changing regulatory environment and new initiatives for improving customer identity verification and authentication.

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JUNE 1, 2016

Cybersecurity company Thales announced on Tuesday (May 31) that its payShield 9000 hardware security modules (HSMs) will be used by payments technology company Swiftch to help secure the first Visa Ready and MasterCard self-certified mPOS solution throughout the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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JUNE 12, 2020

The United Arab Emirates knows about the frustrations connected with remittances , as 90 percent of its population is comprised of expatriate workers. The National Basketball Association (NBA) is going to Disney World to play the remainder of its season at the ESPN Sports Center at Disney.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Xpress Money is a trusted and dependable money transfer brand with a fantastic network of agents across the world. Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Philippines, United Arab Emirates and India, amongst others. “We want to offer our customers the widest and most convenient choice of payout options.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Dubai’s startup and tech scene has come a long way in the past three decades — the city is now a major business center in the Middle East, attracting investors and entrepreneurs from around the world. In this week’s Tech Center tracker, we take a look at how Dubai is giving FinTech hubs around the world a run for their money.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Consumers who use traditional FIs often confront more expensive remittance services, according to a report from the World Bank. More modern payments infrastructures could help, however, with the World Bank’s Q3 analysis finding that mobile remittance methods tended to cost less than other similar services. Legacy Remittance Pains.

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JULY 20, 2017

Making purchases online has effectively taken a global economy and made it more localized due to the ability to click a few buttons and have practically anything delivered from anywhere in the world. As such, it should come as no surprise that banks from around the world are dipping their toes into blockchain technology in various projects.

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