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EGYPT
Egypt’s Minister of Communications and Information
Technology, Amr Talaat, has outlined the steps the country is
taking to implement its national strategy for AI. Talaat said that
a promising capacity building programme had been launched
with the aim of introducing all segments of society to AI.
KSA
Saudi Arabia-based stc pay, a digital wallet and subsidiary
of stc Telecom Company, and digital payments firm Visa,
have signed a strategic partnership to launch customercentric
financial services and digital payment solutions to
stc pay customers. The new agreement, Visa’s first fintech
collaboration in Saudi Arabia, further builds on stc pay and
Visa’s alliance from 2018, and will involve issuance of Visa
payment credentials to millions of stc pay customers.
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