SLA Mobile Connects Infobip to Zain’s Subscribers to Allow the Use of Direct Operator Billing With their Global Merchants

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SLA Mobile, a leading worldwide solutions vendor focused on bringing new revenue streams to mobile operators, has partnered with Infobip, a global mobile messaging and payments provider to bring Direct Operator Billing (DOB) to Zain subscribers for their list of digital and virtual goods merchants. SLA Mobile provides managed service solutions to mobile operators, helping

Bank of Khartoum, Zain Launch First Mobile Money Service in Sudan

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Bank of Khartoum and telecoms company Zain have launched Sudan’s first mobile money service called Hassa. The bank said the service is available to all registered Hassa mobile account customers in Sudan. Customers can carry out several financial transactions on the mobile money service using their mobile phones, Bank of Khartoum’s automated teller machines or

Zain launches ‘Hassa’, Sudan’s first Mobile Financial Service with Bank of Khartoum

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Zain Group, a pioneer of mobile telecommunications in eight markets across the Middle East and Africa, announces that its mobile operation in Sudan has launched the country’s first ever mobile Mobile Financial Service called ‘Hassa’, in partnership with the Bank of Khartoum. The easy, instant and secure service allows all Zain customers in Sudan to

Bango Launches Operator Billing for App Stores in Africa, LatAm and the Middle East

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Mobile payment leader Bango has announced continued momentum in 2014, confirming its growing influence as the global platform that connects app stores with Direct Operator Billing (DOB). Since the beginning of 2014, Bango has launched additional DOB for app store partners with Saudi Telecom and Mobily in Saudi Arabia, Mobinil in Egypt, Telkom in South

Ooredoo Announces Support for Global Mobile Money Initiative

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Ooredoo has announced that it has committed to the GSMA’s Mobile Money Interoperability (MMI) programme to accelerate the implementation of interoperable mobile money services across Africa and the Middle East. Ooredoo joins a group of operators in supporting the programme, who together represent 582 million mobile connections across 48 countries in Africa and the Middle

Ingenico Inaugurates a New Office in Casablanca, Morocco

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Ingenico has announced the opening of a new branch office in Casablanca – Morocco, with the aim to cover the African market. This new office is part of the company’s geographic expansion strategy which seeks to closely answer customers and partners needs to optimize its level of service on each continent. By expanding its footprint

Report: Islamic Finance Could Make Inroads into North Africa

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In Standard & Poor’s recent report, Islamic Finance Could make Inroads Into North Africa, they stated that following the success Islamic Banking has seen over the last decade, it is now set to make increasing headway into North Africa. They noted that Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco have all taken steps towards implementing policies to develop

EMP announces Murat Ozulku as CEO of its Bank Processing Division

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Emerging Markets Payments (EMP) announced that Murat Ozulku has been appointed CEO of its Bank Processing Division, replacing Hoda Shoukry, who has retired after an illustrious career. EMP is a leading pan-African and Middle Eastern payments company. Its Bank Processing Division provides outsourced payments solutions, ranging from card procurement and personalisation and card hosting through

Casablanca Finance City and CISI Sign New Partnership

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Casablanca Finance City and Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in order to enhance and promote professionalism and professional standards in the financial services industry in Morocco and throughout the region. Thanks to this partnership, Morocco will be able to offer more than 50 CISI certifications. These include

VeriFone Payment Systems Selected in Egypt’s Retail Petroleum Market

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VeriFone Systems, Inc., has announced that its portable payment acceptance systems, the VX 680 and VX 675, have been deployed by e-finance to facilitate the state-sponsored transition of Egypt’s entire gasoline and petroleum products retail market to an electronic payment system. e-finance, Egypt’s first and largest payment gateway service, was awarded the modernization contract in