Travel Budgets in Africa and Middle East Set to Increase According to Visa Global Travel Intentions Study 2013

Visa’s latest Global Travel Intentions Study 2013 shows that four of the top five biggest spenders hail from emerging markets.  Saudi Arabia leads the global pool of countries with the highest average spend per trip of US$6 666 while Australian US$4 118 and Chinese travellers US$3 824 were not far behind.  Brazil ranked fourth amongst the

NCR Check Bureau Helps Expand Secure Documents Business in Middle East and Africa

 NCR Corporation thas expanded its relationship with PLANAD, Angola, in order to help grow its secure documents business in its Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. PLANAD, one of the largest IT distributors for financial institutions in Angola, will begin implementing NCR Check Bureau solution for its customers. In MEA, check security remains a highly sensitive

Over 80 million people in Middle East and Africa will turn to mobile banking by 2017

Experts predict that mobile banking in the Middle East and Africa will jump from 19,8 million to 82,1 million users by 2017. Over the last five years the developing world has experienced substantial growth in the adoption of mobile technology. Emerging markets offer not only new possibilities for traditional banking but major potential for transformative