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Seamless KSA 2022

The biggest and most exciting event for payments, fintech, retail and ecommerce is coming to Saudi Arabia for the first time

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Seamless Middle East 2022 is back!

If you were with us last year at Seamless you'll already know it's one of the biggest and most exciting events for payments, fintech, retail and ecommerce in the MENA region!

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Understanding how Amazon Payment Services safeguards your payments infrastructure

In this case study we will examine how Amazon Payment Services responded to the threat of a vulnerability in Log4j and consider the steps we took to protect our systems against similar emerging vulnerabilities

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Learn how to accelerate your sales this Eid!

Here is how online businesses can give their sales a boost by implementing a few seasonal tips and tricks during Eid

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Key Reasons “Installments” is a Win-Win for Both Shoppers and Merchants

In a world where the credit industry is swiftly transforming due to strong growth in e-commerce and innovations in fintech, Installment services have become increasingly popular in enabling customers to purchase everything they want and need online

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6 Golden Rules: E-commerce Data Protection & Cyber Security Strategies for 2022

Discover our guiding principles on keeping your customer data and online systems secure in 2022

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Welcome Mona Alsemayen!

Announcing Mona Alsemayen, the new Country Head for Strategy and Growth in Saudi Arabia for Amazon Payment Services MENA.

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How to Appeal to Millennial Shoppers

As digital natives millennials have different consumer habits that make them a unique driving force in the ecommerce industry. This article covers four key areas you need to consider.

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5 Mistakes Ecommerce Businesses Make When Asking For Product Reviews

With an effective product review strategy, you can encourage word of mouth marketing directly on your own website, right at the point of purchase. In this post, we look at few ways you can build your own strategy and focus on some of the common mistakes many online store owners make when asking for reviews so that you can avoid them!

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5 Steps How to Manage Your End of Year Sales Stress

This post outlines five of our top tips for overcoming the challenges that come with trying to capture attention make sales and maintain momentum during the busiest sales season of the year making sure you don't burn out

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Gearing Up for White Friday? 8 Tips for the Biggest Sales Period of the Year

It is time to get your businesses ready for the most important sales period of the year read our blog post for our best tips on how you can do this

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Say Yes to More Profit With a Better Chargeback Strategy for MENA

Learn how you can start making more profit by reducing the impact of chargebacks on your business!

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Zurich Case Study

Zurich partners with Amazon Payment Services for online policy purchases that take just minutes

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Amazon Payment Services Speaks on Payment Innovation at Seamless Middle East

Amazon Payment Services participation in Seamless Middle East 2021 marks their first year at the event

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Amazon Payment Services Partners with American Express

Amex cardholders in Saudi Arabia can now shop with their Amex card on merchant and supplier websites that use Amazon Payment Services.

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Welcome Peter George

To new beginnings! Announcing Peter George, our new Managing Director for Amazon Payment Services MENA

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Back To School Trends 2021

Interested to learn the latest back-to-school season trends for 2021? Check out the infograph we created with everything you need to know about merchants selling goods and services for students, parents and educators

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Seamless Middle East 2021

Amazon Payment Services is participating in the Seamless Middle east event 2021, the future of Payments, Fintech, E-commerce, and Retail & Identity.

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6 Tips for Boosting Your Back-to-School Sales - It's Not too Late!

The back to school season can be stressful for everyone. Students, parents, teachers and educational institutions each have their own unique concerns, but are all collectively focused on new challenges and goals for the term ahead

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5 Strategic Ways to Grow Your Ecommerce Business with Clubhouse

When thinking about the various marketing and business development tools at your disposal when growing an online business, Clubhouse might not be the first platform you consider

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Qatar Fintech Summit

Amazon Payment Services is participating in the Qatar Fintech Summit 2021.

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Can Mobile Payments Revive Payment on Delivery?

In markets around the world retailers are re-introducing the concept of Payment on Delivery a long forgotten staple of commerce

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3 Benefits of Subscription-Based Ecommerce

Nowadays it seems that everyone and their mother are signing up for subscription boxes but have you ever thought about why this model has become so popular

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Vodafone Case Study

Vodafone Egypt is the largest telecoms operator in Egypt by market share. The company serves both consumer and business customers in Egypt, providing a broad range of telecoms services from mobile voice and data through to fixed-line internet.

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Setting up an Online Business in the Middle East

Across the Middle East, online businesses are booming with stores offering everything from shoes and clothing to mobile phones and home appliances.

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4 Free SEO Tools Every Business Can Benefit From

Understanding the ins and outs of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can be useful for more than just improving your rankings and improving your search-based advertising performance.

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3 Questions Every Ecommerce Brand Should Ask Itself

Today businesses must be able to leverages sales through an online store third party marketplaces and directly within various social media platforms to be truly successful

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4 Time Management Tips for Busy Entrepreneurs

Having an effective time management system is important for everyone but if you're an entrepreneur it's absolutely critical

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What Happens at Checkout The Psychology of Ecommerce Checkouts

When it comes to the world of ecommerce understanding a shoppers psychology is one of the best ways to boost your online sales

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Amazon Payment Services Launches Amazon Fintech Lab to Foster Innovation in Payment Services at Dubai DIFC Innovation Hub

The initiative is the latest in Amazon Payment Services efforts to support fintech in the region by providing a forum for discussions on digital payments and the future of the fintech industry

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Amazon Payment Services launches the world's first #amazonfintechlab

Ideas are transformed into innovative solutions through design thinking, it begins with shaping of client-specific solutions, followed by rapid prototyping before implementation at scale

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Amazon payment Services Supports Zurich's Digital Transformation

Zurich, like many of our other partners, has been able to streamline its current payment processes and make the customer journey more rewarding through the integration of our payments system.

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Taking Egyptian SMEs Online with the CBE Initiative

Egypt is a huge Middle Eastern economy with a population now reaching over 102.33 million. While enjoying a period of relative macroeconomic stability in 2020, characterised by steady growth, improved fiscal accounts, and significant foreign reserves, it has since suffered at the hands of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Amazon Payment Services Waives Service Fees For Small Businesses In Support of the Central Bank of Egypt Initiative

Supporting an initiative launched by the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) to encourage the transition to digital payments in Egypt, Amazon Payment Services will waive all account setup and maintenance fees for Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) for its digital payment service throughout the month of Ramadan until the end of June 2021

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5 Data-backed Travel Predictions for 2021 from MakeMyTrip

As the world enters a new phase for travel and more borders gradually become open to tourists, we explore what the future of the industry looks like with the help of five data-backed predictions from the holiday booking platform MakeMyTrip, based on 9 months of recent search and booking data.

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Do You Need to Adapt Your Customer Payments Strategy?

Various social restrictions in 2020 have driven consumers around the world to change their overall lifestyle, as well as their shopping habits. One result of this has been a shift from in-store payments to transactions made online through ecommerce platforms and digital stores. This has accelerated the digital transformation already taking place pre-pandemic, with more businesses now forced to adapt their offerings to be more digital.

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PAYFORT is now Amazon Payment Services

Introducing Amazon Payment Services - A letter from Omar Soudodi, Managing Director

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Speeding Up the Inevitable Cashless Payment Trend

We are now seeing even more momentum towards a cashless culture with thousands of businesses rolling out new cashless payment methods, and some even outright refusing cash payments due to hygienic precautions.

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Ecommerce Personalization Is the Future: 3 Strategies You Can Start Using Today

There was a time not too long ago when personalization in ecommerce simply meant adding your customers name to a sales email, unfortunately these days are gone. In a recent survey of online shoppers, 3 out of 4 respondents said they had felt frustrated after being shown content that had nothing to do with them.

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3 Rising Ecommerce Technologies to Watch

Despite overwhelming evidence that digital commerce initiatives impact day-to-day operations and the overall customer experience, many organizations struggle to get started in the space. Businesses are nervous about investing in cutting edge technology and do not necessarily know what investments they should be making.

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How do Payment Gateways Work?

Payment gateways are specialized pieces of software that authorize and manage payments for customers, merchants, and banks while providing added security to all parties. When implemented correctly, it acts as a seamless connection between e-commerce applications and credit cards processing networks or banks.

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Six steps to start your eCommerce Business

When starting your ecommerce there are many aspects that need to be considered, but the most important question you will need to answer for any ecommerce venture is what you will be selling?

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