By Sanjit Gill, General Manager, ICLP While many of us have been busy preparing our summer getaways, one retail event has been dominating the…

MEC has launched its specialist e-commerce consultancy, MEC Commerce, in the MENA region. The new division combines the services of a media agency with…

The e-commerce space in the Middle East – the UAE in particular ¬– is becoming very exciting. It’s an era where we’re seeing a…

Visa Inc. introduces a new specification to enable palm, voice, iris, or facial biometrics for chip card transactions. The framework is designed for the EMV…

Visa Inc. and mobile and online payment provider, Stripe, announce a strategic partnership in support of net technologies and online payment experiences for global…

E-commerce in the MENA region has grown and continues to grow at a rapid pace. In May 2013, Go-Gulf estimated that the value of…

Security of payment card data, the future of online payments and growth of e-commerce will be highlighted in the first Middle East Payment Forum…

Two years into running PayPal MENA – after a longer stint at PayPal Asia – Elias Ghanem’s hopes of growing the payment gateway in…

  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…

  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,…

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…

  Social entrepreneurs in developing countries are using mobile phones and the controversial digital currency bitcoin to increase the speed, and slash the price, of international…