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The Paypers looked into the most relevant partnerships announced during Q4 2023 within the banking and fintech space, discovering preferences that went from Open Banking technologies and their applications in ecommerce, card payment innovations, as well as an overall focus on financial crime, fraud prevention, crypto, Web3, and CBDC developments.
partnership, Open Banking, banking, fintech, fraud management, cryptocurrency, crypto, The Paypers Quarterly Analysis series
Egypt-based Commercial International Bank has partnered with Ripple to implement blockchain technology aiming to enhance the efficiency of cross-border payments.
CBDC, central bank, cross-border payments, digital assets, partnership
Mastercard has announced the launch of MDES Token Connect in India to support tokenization via mobile and internet banking.
tokenization, mobile banking, debit card, transactions
US-based Visa partnered with Egyptian Banks Company for Technology Advancements (EBC) to support remittances for Egyptians living abroad.
partnership, remittances, cross-border payments, financial institutions, financial inclusion
Mastercard has partnered with the Egyptian Banks Company to foster sustainable and inclusive economic activities and augment the digital payments landscape in Egypt.
tokenization, digital payments, payments infrastructure, financial inclusion, sustainability
Egypt-based developer of digital payments infrastructures, e-Finance, has partnered with Software Group to promote financial inclusion in Egypt through Digital and Agency Banking Solutions.
partnership, digital payments, digital banking, financial services, financial institutions
Building onto our previous reporting related to the partnerships that took place in Q3 2023 within the payments and commerce space, this analysis focuses on the banking and fintech industry.
banking, fintech, fraud prevention, financial crime, Open Banking, Open Finance, crypto, web3, The Paypers Quarterly Analysis series
The Paypers has researched and analysed the most prolific partnerships that defined and built resilience within the payments & commerce and banking & fintech sectors in Q3 2023, from payments infrastructure, BNPL, the proliferation of Tap-to-Pay, the surge of Open Banking tech, and overall digitalisation attempts for banking and financial services.
payments , paytech, partnership, The Paypers Quarterly Analysis series, ecommerce, fintech
The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) and the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) have entered into a Bilateral Currency Swap Agreement between the UAE Dirham and the Egyptian Pound.
partnership, banking, financial services, financial institutions
Egypt-based MIDBANK has entered the Instant Payment Network (IPN) to enable cash transfers between banks.
instant payments, online banking, COVID-19, mobile banking, digital banking
Safaricom has announced plans to launch M-Pesa in Ethiopia by the end of September 2023 will have it integrated with more banks.
mobile payments, product launch, expansion, financial inclusion, cashless
The Capital Markets Authority has prohibited the use of cryptocurrencies for payments, investments, and digital assets mining in Kuwait.
cryptocurrency, digital assets, regulation, compliance
Jean Sideris and Rawad Nasser from Edgar, Dunn & Company analyse the increasing challenges of international card schemes in the context of rising domestic initiatives.
card scheme
Uber has partnered with financial services company HSBC to launch a digital payments solution that enables on-demand cashouts into mobile wallets for unbanked drivers in Egypt.
product launch, partnership, digital wallet, digital payments, online payments, mobile payments, financial inclusion, digitalisation, payments , cash management
Egypt-based fintech ecosystem MNT-Halan has received USD 400 million in funding, of which USD 200 million in equity came from Chimera Abu Dhabi in exchange for 20% of the company.
funding, lending, fintech, investment, equity
Serena Sebastiani from PwC Middle East shares insights into the Open Banking state of affairs in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.
Open Banking, Open Finance, Open Data Economy, regulation
Mastercard has been on fire and we are here to figure out how and why. In the last two weeks alone, the global card scheme made a flurry of announcements coming from quite different parts of the global payments and fintech ecosystem.
partnership, product launch, embedded finance, ecommerce, loyalty programme, cryptocurrency, B2B payments, contactless payments
Jean Sideris, Director at Edgar, Dunn & Company, analyses the characteristics that fuelled fintech development in the Middle East and looks at elements driving future growth.
fintech, mobile payments, digital payments, ecommerce, BNPL, digital wallet
Uzbekistan's UZCARD has suspended payments processing through Mir cards issued by Bank of Russia's National Card Payment System due to necessary technical procedures.
payment processing, financial sanctions, online payments, payment processor
The Central Bank of Egypt has entered negotiations to join Russia’s Mir card payments system in a bid to improve Russian tourism in Egypt as well as trade ties between the two countries.
online payments, cross-border payments, payment processing, payment processor, central bank