Huawei has announced the launch of First Abu Dhabi Bank’s mobile banking app, on HUAWEI AppGallery, allowing users to manage their accounts and credit cards directly from their mobile devices. The FAB mobile banking app allows UAE customers to manage their accounts, credit cards, transfer money, and pay their bills directly from their mobile device. Commenting […]

Bahrain Islamic Bank (BisB) has emerged as the winner of the prestigious award ‘Excellence in Islamic Banking – Bahrain’ at the 2020 Finnovex Awards held on the sidelines of Finnovex Middle East 2020, a hybrid virtual and live event comprised of panel sessions, workshops, and an awards ceremony, which took place on the 3rd and […]

Pakistan’s leading connectivity and digital services company, Zong 4G, hosted the USF contract signing ceremony at its Islamabad headquarters. The event was attended by the Minister of IT & Telecom Syed Amin Ul Haque, Chairman PTA Major General (R) Amir Azeem Bajwa, Federal Secretary (IT & Telecommunication) Shoaib Ahmad Siddique, Zong 4G Chairman and CEO […]

MoneyGram International has partnered with PayMaya Philippines to launch a new digital capability that allows customers to send money from the United States to the Philippines through Visa Direct, Visa’s real-time push-payment solution. Users in the United States can use MoneyGram mobile app or website to send money that arrives almost instantly to any PayMaya Visa cardholder located […]

Strong recovery in operational metrics backed by a focus on digital services expansion. Pakistan’s number one 4G operator and largest internet and broadband service provider Jazz invested over PKR 3.7 billion during the 3rd quarter of 2020 with a strategic focus to expand 4G services. During this period, 4G users reached 22.2 million, a 70% […]

BPC Banking Technologies, the leading provider of digital payment solutions, has partnered with Pakistan’s Meezan Bank to deliver its digital transformation agenda starting with the upgrade of its payment infrastructure. BPC’s SmartVista platform has been selected by Meezan to deliver state-of-the-art issuing and acquiring services for the bank. With the pandemic driving rapid adoption of […]

Mastercard has teamed up with IDEMIA, a global leader in Augmented Identity, and MatchMove, a Singapore-based fintech,  to develop a card that will allow fingerprint authorization at in-store payment terminals in Asia, in a bid to enhance the safety and security of contactless transactions. The card, with the product name F.CODE Easy, is developed by […]

Ria Money Transfer and Thunes has announced strategic partnership to enable customers across the globe to send funds directly to millions of mobile wallet users and bank account holders in key emerging markets. Under this partnership,  Ria’s agent network can also send funds directly to mobile wallets. The partnership will help Ria to expand more in […]

Standard Bank, Mastercard and Google collaborate to help SMEs open their digital doors and reach more customers. Under this joint venture, SMEs can get free access to Standard Bank’s SimplyBlu, an all-in-one e-commerce solution powered by Mastercard Payment Gateway Services, plus free Google Ads to the value of R500. With Google Ads, SMEs can get […]

WeLab Bank, has gone live on Temenos and its Transact core banking system. WeLab Bank is powered by cloud agnostic Temenos Transact for core banking along with Temenos Analytics and Financial Crime Mitigation. WeLab operates on both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud With NuoDB the solution delivers a cloud-agnostic, distributed relational database that […]