Noor Takaful has partnered with Algofy.ai Limited, to launch a unique, fully-digital savings plan. The Bliss Savings plan will offer customers a fully digital experience. From Application Submission to Service, everything can be accessed through a smart phone without the need for paperwork filing, branch visits, or physical agent interactions, realizing the zero-touch economy. Through this […]

The Bahrain headquartered Islamic multinational banking group, Al Baraka Banking Group announced the launch of the Al Baraka e-Academy. Employees worldwide will now be able to seamlessly take part in a rich and varied range of digital trainings including those focused on Sharia’, Marketing, Retail, Corporate and SME banking, Operations, Finance, Credit, Risk, Internal Audit, Corporate Governance, […]

Big Y has selected the retail cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) platform from NCR Corporation. Big Y will use NCR ‘s solution to integrate its grocery and convenience stores with a unified platform and promotion tool. NCR Emerald is a key component of NCR’s Next-Generation Retail Store Architecture, providing retailers the ability to simplify store operations and introduce […]

Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth has partnered with Juntos Global and Nedbank to provide 9,000 micro-enterprises with free business and financial literacy training to help them adopt digital financial services and grow their businesses. The training programme will be delivered to informal micro-enterprises across the country, using Juntos Global’s automated conversational platform. The tailored training […]

Kuwait Finance House (KFH) has launched its digital service, “opening bank account online” for new customers, citizens and residents within minutes without having to visit the branch. The new service allows new KFH customers who do not have any bank accounts at the bank, to open a bank account online through the KFHonline Application on […]

Mozper has announced the closing of a $3.55M Seed round, led by Hetz Ventures with participation from F-Prime Capital, Foundation Capital, Secocha Ventures and previous investors Dux Capital and John Farrell. This latest round brings the company’s total funding to $5.1M and comes just months after the announcement of a Pre-Seed round of USD $1.6M led by DUX Capital and angel investor John Farrell, and amongst others, including YCombinator, […]

KitKat has partnered with Facebook to launch Australia’s very first Facebook Live shopping experience. The new feature enables viewers of the live broadcast to purchase specific products in real time by typing prescribed #keywords in the livestream comment box, automatically triggering a notification within Messenger to direct users to purchase online. Nestlé Head of Marketing […]

Bangkok Bank announced the launch of the first in-house built advanced Thai conversational AI engine catering to the mobile-first trend in the country. The AI engine, called TT01, is a joint collaboration between BBL’s innovation arm, Innohub, and Singapore-based fintech start-up Pand.ai. TT01 is trained to process mixed-use language in Thai and English, as well […]

SWIFT has announced the activation of the world’s first live gpi Instant connection, a new service that enables consumers and businesses to send payments in seconds across borders, around the clock via their financial institutions. Lloyds Banking Group is the first to go live with the service and the UK is the first market where […]

Adyen  and Flywire have announced  partnership which integrates Adyen into Flywire’s global network of payment partners. Through the collaboration with Adyen, Flywire’s customers – predominantly, organizations in the education, healthcare, and travel industries – will benefit from support across more global markets with an increased number of local payment methods and currencies, and  additional support for […]