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By Waseem Afzal, general manager of OMD MENA’s e-commerce arm, Transact Every year, Seamless Middle East brings together experts and businesses from all over the region to discuss the future and challenges of payments, fintech, e-commerce and retail. In its 19th edition, I had the opportunity to moderate a roundtable discussion with some of the brightest […]

Any partly sane mind in the tech industry knows that making predictions about the future of technology, even a year out, is an exercise in vanity. Still, it pays to forecast what the future holds for us vivacious marketers, so we can prepare our clients, FOMO psychs and, oh yes, our clients. From an ‘innovation-evangelical […]

Sir David Brailsford had a difficult challenge ahead of him. The year was 2012 and the Olympic Games were on. The team he was coaching, British Team Sky, had not won a single major cycling tournament since 1966. Far from being discouraged, Brailsford approached the task by breaking down every single thing he could think […]

Two years into running PayPal MENA – after a longer stint at PayPal Asia – Elias Ghanem’s hopes of growing the payment gateway in the region were quickly shattered by one realization: “It was much easier to sell PayPal to MENA than it was to sell MENA to PayPal.” When, in early 2013, Ghanem allegedly […]

  If payment gateway PayPal’s estimates, which put e-commerce in the MENA region at $15 billion in 2015, prove accurate, future prospects of the regional online payments industry look rather rosy. Over the past year, a slew of reports has come out confirming that it’s set for exponential growth. According to the State of Payment […]

  The decision of an established e-commerce player to drop COD (cash on delivery) services would garner little attention elsewhere in the world – and, in fact, would only be considered a natural progression of the business. But regional e-commerce platform JadoPado’s recent announcement that it would stop offering COD as a payment option got quite mixed reactions in a region where a […]

  Three hours into a lengthy debate with Tarik Kaddoumi, a self-proclaimed liberal and cofounder of Umbrellab – a payment gateway that enables businesses to accept Bitcoins – Communicate felt that it had stepped into an all-too familiar movie storyboard: a too-good-to-be-true revolutionary seed of an idea against the status quo that turns real, is fought against tooth and nail by those in […]

Multi-currency and multi-lingual payment gateway for SMEs Telr  – founded and headed in the region by ex-Paypal MENA managing director Elias Ghanem –  has announced its merger with payment processing company Innovate Payments. Through this merger, Telr will strenghten its payment gateway, unified logistics and payments APIs offerings, alongside its cash management solutions. “Telr’s ambition to revolutionize the payments landscape […]

  Global online payment system PayPal has announced its partnership – a revenue share agreement –  with Pokeware, an advertising tech company, to offer further benefits to both Pokeware’s merchants and customers.  The partnership allows Pokeware’s MENA merchants to offer PayPal as an additional payment method to their customers. Pokeware and PayPal’s collaboration will give […]

Leading online payment solution PayPal has announced its partnership with Pokeware, an ad tech company.  The partnership allows Pokeware’s MENA merchants to offer PayPal as an additional payment method to their customers. Pokeware and PayPal’s collaboration will give online businesses a one-stop-shop payment solution that encapsulates local ATMs, mobile phone systems, major credit cards, and […]