NEWS
Digital payment partnerships to drive
Uganda’s financial inclusion
including the Mastercard Labs for Financial Inclusion, and FSD
Uganda to focus on achieving their target in the key sectors
of education, agriculture, trade and health by creating and
rolling-out secure and simple digital payments solutions.
“Digital payments have played an important role in connecting
Ugandans to financial services securely and seamlessly: 53
out of every 100 Ugandan adults have transacted because of
mobile money solutions, for instance, which shows us that the
ability to include people in the economy is driven by innovative
digital solutions,” said Chris Bwakira, Vice President and Area
Business Head, East Africa at Mastercard.
Chris Bwakira, VP and Area Business Head for East Africa
at Mastercard, and Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa, FSD Uganda
Executive Director, sign the MOU
Over half of Uganda’s adults are forced to keep their savings
at home because of a lack of access to formal financial
services. To combat this, Mastercard and FSD (Financial Sector
Deepening) Uganda have entered into a memorandum of
understanding to develop financial services and solutions
that will improve livelihoods of Ugandans and strengthen the
country’s economy. The partnership will allow Mastercard,
Ugandans have also indicated a healthy appetite for digital, and
mobile in particular. Bwakira added that it was for that reason
that the Mastercard Labs for Financial Inclusion is working on
education and agricultural payment projects in Uganda.
The two partners have also committed to focus on protecting
and educating consumers, driving engagement with
government surrounding policy, as well as carrying out
research and partnering with other critical stakeholders to
share knowledge and expertise around financial inclusion.
NIT signs distribution agreement with
Dell EMC for MEA region
NIT, an Ingram Micro Company and
leading regional value-added distributor
of IP surveillance and physical security
solutions in the META region, has
announced the signing of a distribution
agreement with Dell EMC.
partners in the Middle East and Africa,”
said Bassel Al Fakir, Managing Director
of NIT. “I am confident we will deliver
immediate beneficial impact to our
reseller partners and their customers and
we are committed to continually playing
an important role in helping them grow
and strengthen their business.”
Through this agreement, NIT is now
authorised to distribute Dell EMC’s
portfolio of servers, storage and active
network devices to its channel partners
in Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Egypt,
Ethiopia, Ghana, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya,
Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco,
Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi
Arabia, Tanzania, Tunisia, UAE, Uganda
and Yemen.
“Our new partnership with Dell EMC
provides significant opportunities for
both NIT and Dell EMC to build unique
end-to-end solutions for IP surveillance
and physical security to its reseller
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Bassel Al Fakir, Managing Director, NIT
“Our distributors play a crucial role in
our partner ecosystem. We are very
pleased to have NIT, an Ingram Micro
Company, on board in this important
market. NIT are utilising their expert
knowledge and extensive partner
network to deliver innovative and
customised solutions that meet the
channel partners’ specific needs and
support the business growth and that
is what we are looking for,” said Havier
Haddad, Senior Channel Director,
Middle East, Turkey and Africa region at
Dell EMC.
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