MWC 2024: Newly formed partnership with KSA-based PayTabs to enhance digital payments across MENA
Huawei Cloud Accelerates Intelligence across the Middle East and Central Asia
Barcelona, Spain, March 04, 2024: At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024, Huawei Cloud announced a new partnership agreement with KSA-based PayTabs. This collaboration is intended to collectively drive the innovation and implementation of cloud and AI technologies in diverse industry use cases.
Alan Qi, President of Huawei Cloud Middle East and Central Asia, emphasized that this Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signifies more than just integrating Huawei Cloud’s innovative strengths in line with the partners’ development objectives. “It represents a strong acknowledgment from both parties towards shared goals and a steadfast commitment to pushing the boundaries of KSA’s digital and intelligent era. Huawei Cloud is dedicated to collaborating with partners, exerting continuous efforts to achieve even more fruitful outcomes, and collectively opening a new chapter of digital transformation,” said Qi.
Huawei Cloud’s collaboration with KSA-based PayTabs to boost the digital payments industry across MENA
At MWC 2024, PayTabs Group, MENA’s award-winning payment orchestration powerhouse, signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement with Huawei Cloud. The agreement will enable both companies to jointly explore and develop digital payments and payment orchestration technology to launch more innovative payment services across the region. The deal was signed in the presence of Abdulaziz Jouf, CEO and founder of PayTabs Group; Hany O. Soliman, Regional Head and Operating Partner for PayTabs GCC and Africa; Samy Masoud, VP, Solutions Delivery PayTabs; Mark Chen, President of Huawei Cloud Solution Sales, and Sebastian Shi, CEO of Huawei Cloud UAE.
This partnership will inject new vitality into the business development for PayTabs Group and Huawei Cloud, bringing more possibilities to grow the fintech ecosystem and unleash a smoother, secure payment experience for global consumers. As one of the world’s top five cloud service providers and the fastest-growing cloud in the Middle East, Huawei Cloud will provide a solid cloud foundation to support PayTabs and other leading fintech enterprises in the region in expanding their business locally and globally.
In addition to the technology foundation, Huawei Cloud will share its expertise from operating in more than 170 countries and regions to become a bridge for PayTabs to connect markets, expand business, and achieve business success. Highly trusted by business owners and consumers, PayTabs operates in several markets, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, and Türkiye.
Huawei Cloud Riyadh Region
Huawei has established a strong presence in the Middle East and Central Asia for over two decades. With customer-centricity as the core value proposition of Huawei Cloud, the company collaborates with partners and ecosystems from across the region to deliver excellent cloud services with cutting-edge products and services to customers in the region.
As the hub for Huawei Cloud services in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa, Huawei Cloud Riyadh Region has offered cutting-edge, innovative, reliable, secure, and sustainable cloud services to customers in Saudi Arabia and beyond since its launch in September 2023.
Huawei Cloud Riyadh Region has been deployed with three Availability Zones (AZs) to deliver cutting-edge, innovative, highly reliable, low-latency, and secure cloud services. This ensures the excellent operation of customer services on Huawei Cloud. This Region covers major network carriers like STC, Zain, and Mobily and offers a comprehensive range of cloud services, including robust infrastructure, databases, containers, big data, and AI services.
Within three months of launching this public cloud Region in Saudi Arabia, Huawei Cloud obtained the Class C license. This demonstrates Huawei Cloud’s commitment to establishing widespread connectivity, competitive cloud computing, and AI services in Saudi Arabia. Huawei Cloud contributes to Saudi Arabia’s core competitiveness in the digital era by doing so.
Huawei Cloud aims to leverage its innovative technologies, global expertise in digital and intelligence, and advantages of a global ecosystem to offer Middle East and Central Asia a better cloud to accelerate local innovation and development.
In the Region, for the Region
Over the last four years, Huawei Cloud has been dedicated to offering cutting-edge cloud services, localized services, and an open ecosystem. Huawei Cloud has collaborated with global and local partners to support countries and organizations in the Middle East and Central Asia to achieve digital and intelligent transformation.
Joint efforts are making the world better. Huawei Cloud is becoming a solid cloud foundation and a robust engine for intelligence, delivering innovative, resilient, and trustworthy cloud services and industry solutions across different sectors in a more innovative, inclusive, and open approach and working with partners to assist customers in succeeding in the intelligent era.
