Mastercard Study Shows South African Consumers Make the Move to Contactless Payments for Everyday...
In a Mastercard global consumer study, 75 percent of South African consumers say they use contactless payments 88 percent of South African respondents view contactless as a cleaner way to pay, with 71 percent preferring to shop at merchants where contactless is accepted In South Africa, the number of contactless transactions grew 13X in March …
Read More
Researchers at three institutions in the U.S. and U.K. receive grants to advance studies of repurposed drugs and novel antibodies in preventing COVID-19 1 April, Purchase, N.Y.: The partners in the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator announced grants of $20 million to three institutions—the University of Washington, University of Oxford, and La Jolla Institute for Immunology—to fund clinical …
Read More
Dubai welcomed 15.93 million overnight visitors in 2018, retaining its ranking as fourth most popular destination globally Abu Dhabi is Middle East and Africa’s fastest-growing city with a 2009-2018 CAGR of 16.7% Dubai, UAE – September 04, 2019 – Dubai has retained its position as the fourth most visited city in the world for the …
Read More
Mastercard and Bahrain’s leading electronic financial transactions network, BENEFIT, will enable banks to send and receive cross-border business-to-business payments on a secure, private and direct network Blockchain technology will strengthen authenticity, improve efficiency, turnaround time and certainty of such payments 29 July, Manama, Bahrain – Bahrain’s Electronic Network for Financial Transactions (BENEFIT), and Mastercard have partnered …
Read More