Digital Transformation
Standard Chartered Bank and Microsoft Corp. announced a three-year strategic partnership to accelerate the bank’s digital transformation through a cloud-first strategy. This partnership marks a significant milestone for Standard Chartered in making its vision for virtual banking, next-generation payments, open banking, and banking-as-a-service a reality. Leveraging Azure as a preferred cloud platform, the companies will […]
Singapore-based MatchMove announced the launch of its new remittance platform, RemitSend by MatchMove, to enable seamless and cost-efficient, cross-border Business to Business (B2B) remittances for businesses of all sizes. By offering a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based subscription pricing model, MatchMove enables SME’s in Singapore to save up to 80% of their costs when compared to charges […]
Unilever Pakistan and VentureDive have unveiled details of their unique collaboration, Munchies. The startup is a disruptive snacking eCommerce solution that aims to provide consumers with instant delivery of snacking items using a dedicated delivery fleet. This was shared during an exclusive Fireside Chat organized by Nest I/O. The session was hosted by Jehan Ara, […]
Emirates Post in partnership with Local Knowledge is launching Smart Places, an innovative digital transformation product specifically designed for bricks and mortar businesses as a “we do it for you” service to ensure they are discoverable on today’s mobile digital mapping platforms, apps, search engines and in-vehicle navigation systems. The new service will provide solution […]
The Bank of Khyber (BOK) and NIFT signed an agreement on during the last week, for digital commerce payments (electronic/mobile) through NIFT’s e-commerce gateway. The agreement was signed by BOK MD Ihsanullah Ihsan and NIFT CEO Haider Wahab in the presence of senior management at the BOK head office in Peshawar. Speaking on the […]
HSBC has reached a long term strategic cloud agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to drive digital transformation and deliver new and personalized banking services. Under the multi-year, global deal, HSBC will make AWS technology available across the bank’s lines of business. It will start with customer-facing applications and application modernization in its Global Wealth […]
TPL Trakker, Pakistan’s leading IoT Company, has partnered with Telenor Pakistan, the country’s leading telecom and digital services provider, to offer Location Based Services (LBS). TPL Trakker powers the technology via TPL Maps, the company’s mapping arm, and Pakistan’s first digital mapping service licensed by the Survey of Pakistan. Using LBS, Telenor Pakistan will make […]
UBI Banca, through its subsidiary Prestitalia, enters into a strategic collaboration with the technology and software provider of Europe’s leading fintech ecosystem to launch an innovative platform that will allow customers to have a fast, convenient and digital channel to obtain salary backed loans. Prestitalia, UBI Banca Group’s company specialized in the salary backed loans […]
Huawei, a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices, will host this year’s SAMENA Council Leaders’ Summit for the seventh consecutive year. The 2020 event, which is organized by SAMENA Telecommunications Council, is set to take place on9th July, with leaders from multiple country clusters to participate virtually. The […]
Banco Santander has appointed three leading technologists to support its strategy and digital transformation. R. Martin Chávez has been appointed as a new independent director. Mr. Chávez will replace Esther Giménez-Salinas who will be stepping down having served on the board for eight years. Mr. Chávez, who has worked for 20 years at Goldman Sachs, […]