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Mobile payments platform rolls out in Kuwait

07/17/201307/15/2013 Jennifer Goula

The program is meant to start there but is looking to expand throughout the rest of the region. Among the most challenging goals for startups in the Arab region to start selling online is choosing the right online and mobile payments platform, leading to many attempts to improve the system. There have been a number of efforts to try to create a successful gateway within that region. A primary part of that effort was to try to simplify the types of services that are already available online and available for…

Mobile payments demand is increasing in the Middle East

04/24/201304/22/2013 Jorge Gonzalez

That market is beginning to increase its desire to take part in transactions over smartphones. As companies in the Middle East have begun a broadening of the infrastructure for mobile payments, the demand for using this alternative form of transaction is also on the rise in that region. This trend has kept the area well in line with the evolution that commerce is taking on a global scale. The data suggesting that the Middle East is keen to take on mobile payments was issued by First Data. It has pointed…