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Endava and Paysafe unite to redefine the future of payments and digital communities
Endava, a technology-driven business transformation group and Paysafe, a leading payments platform, have announced a multi-year strategic partnership to bring smarter payments and nextgeneration community engagement to market faster.
Paysafe’ s expertise lies in helping businesses and consumers make seamless, secure transactions worldwide, with offerings including digital wallets, prepaid solutions and online payment processing.
“ Payments have always been about trust and connection – two qualities that are now being redefined through technology,” said Alastair Lukies CBE, Chief Engagement Officer, Endava.“ Our partnership with Paysafe brings together world-class payments infrastructure and next-generation engineering to create smarter, more intuitive ways for people and businesses to engage. It’ s a powerful step forward in making every transaction simpler, faster and more meaningful.”
Meanwhile, Endava brings a wide range of technology and business services to the partnership, spanning engineering optimisation, AI solutions and programme delivery excellence, as well as extensive experience in the payments space. A joint steering committee will provide governance and oversight of service performance, strategic alignment and continuous improvement under the partnership.
Alastair Lukies CBE, Chief Engagement Officer at Endava
“ By combining Paysafe’ s global payments expertise with Endava’ s AI-driven engineering, we hope to set a new standard for payments and community experience,” said Bob Legters, Chief Product Officer, Paysafe.“ We’ ll be able to deliver quicker rollouts, higher conversion and richer digital experiences for our partners and for the end-user.”
PIF, SITE and Microsoft sign MoU to explore sovereign-cloud services in Saudi Arabia
PIF, Saudi Information Technology Company( SITE) and Microsoft has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding( MoU).
This will explore the delivery of Microsoft’ s sovereign-cloud services in Saudi Arabia, seeking to enhance the security, confidentiality and sovereignty of data within
Saudi Arabia and to access cutting-edge cloud and Artificial Intelligence technologies.
Microsoft brings extensive experience in delivering sovereign-cloud capabilities that enable governments and highly regulated industries across the world to adopt cloud while maintaining national controls over data in line with the laws of specific regions and countries.
Under the MoU, Microsoft will work alongside PIF and SITE to assess how its sovereign-cloud model can further support Saudi Arabia’ s security, compliance and data residency priorities while providing access to advanced cloud and Artificial Intelligence technologies.
The MoU also aims to strengthen collaboration in areas such as joint research, development and innovation and knowledge transfer.
PIF’ s strategy for the information and communication technology sector contributes to positioning Saudi Arabia as a globally competitive hub by innovating and building capacity in its mission to enable the development and diversification of the domestic economy.
The non-binding MoU is subject to satisfying certain necessary requirements and regulatory approvals as applicable. p
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