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Social commerce and opportunities for the regional businesses

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Social commerce and opportunities for regional businesses Originally published in Gulf Business, 29 July 2017 Your customers want to buy in social media channels, so why aren’t you selling to them there? It’s an incredible statistic that we spend an extra 58 million hours on Facebook during Ramadan in the region. That’s 5 per cent…

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Adopting cashless payment channels doubles the business growth

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Originally published in Wamda, April 2018 We’re at an inflection point in the history of payments. Led by countries like Sweden, where non-cash payments now outweigh cash payments, consumers are moving en masse to the widespread adoption of cashless payment methods. Adopting this payment channel brings significant benefits to businesses – which ultimately track back…

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Deciphering the role of payment gateways in the post demonetisation era

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Deciphering the role of payment gateways in the post-demonetization era Originally published on YourStory, 17 March 2017 Digital transactions have been consistently on a rise, ever since the demonetization announcement by the Indian government in November 2016. While the e-wallets took care of the everyday consumer-centric transactions, payments gateways had larger shoes to fill, especially…

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Telr partners Aleta Planet to connect Chinese consumers by UnionPay

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Telr and Aleta Planet to enable UnionPay e-commerce acceptance for thousands of merchants in UAE Latest move marks a key milestone in Aleta Planet’s Middle East expansion Partnership comes amid double-digit growth in Middle East e-commerce market   Singapore/Dubai, 28 March 2021 – Dubai-based Telr, a leading payment gateway provider in the Middle East, and…

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Trends the fintech industry should adopt in 2018

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Originally published in Entrepreneur India, January 2018   The financial technology industry has been soaring in India, kept abuzz throughout 2017 with a continuous flow of prominent developments by the public and private sector alike. With the implementation of initiatives such as demonetization, Jan Dhan Yojana and UPI, the Government has provided significant direct and…

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TelrShops – the first UAE-based E-commerce Platform is launched by Telr

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TelrShops enables merchants to create an e-commerce site in just 5 minutes Assists all merchants across a number of industries in offering their products and services online A meticulously designed platform to manage, scale and grow businesses online Allows integration with the Telr Payment gateway and offers user flexibility through the TelrShops App    UAE,…

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How to Choose a Payment Gateway Provider in UAE and KSA?

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Making the right decision regarding selecting a payment gateway for your online business in UAE or KSA is one of the most crucial decisions you must make when preparing your ecommerce website. Thereafter, once your e-commerce website is operating, the importance of having a suitable payment gateway will grow by time.  It can be argued…

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Blockchain technology is driving financial innovation

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Originally published in MENAbytes, March 2018 Blockchain is synonymous with Bitcoin in many peoples’ minds, though that misperception is swiftly disappearing – due in no small part to the interest in blockchain from across the financial sector. Blockchain has the potential to significantly disrupt the financial services industry, at a product and service level, and…

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Benefits and future of using cashless payment solutions

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Originally published in Arabian Business, 21 November 2017 To imagine a future in which payment for products and services is easily made on a mobile phone, this will undoubtedly be a beautiful and promising vision. Entrepreneurs’ expectations have long pointed to a multi-year social transformation, as we see the transition towards cryptocurrency and mobile payment…

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Commerce via social media and its business opportunities

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Originally published in Arabian Business, October 2017 Social media in the UAE is a phenomenon worth considering. There is no other description to describe the way in which Emirati society has assimilated social media. The statistics show the rate of Facebook penetration in society, as it is estimated that 90% of Internet users in the…

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