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Qatar's Alfardan Exchange will be taking on TerraPay's digital payment infrastructure. By joining forces, the two entities aim to facilitate seamless, cost-effective, efficient cross-border payments. Sudhesh Giriyan, President – Cross-Border Payments at TerraPay said: “TerraPay, a pioneering provider of white-labelled digital payment infrastructure, is dedicated to transforming the remittance landscape. The partnership with Alfardan Exchange is seen as an opportunity to strengthen our market presence in Qatar and gain strategic leverage in the remittance sector.” “The collaboration underscores TerraPay's commitment to innovation, setting new benchmarks in the remittance sector. Known for creating seamless, secure, and accessible cross-border transaction solutions, TerraPay aims to revolutionise the digital payments landscape in partnership with Alfardan Exchange.” Giriyan said the two companies will work together to establish advanced digital cross-border remitt...

MWC 2024 : Huawei has released smart city solutions to help governments with increasingly complex urban management.  City Intelligent Twins represents a future-oriented digital city technical architecture. Based on technologies such as IoT sensing, high-speed connectivity, cloud computing, big data, and AI foundation models, this architecture helps build an integrated intelligent system featuring cloud-network-edge-device synergy, integrated data for city governance, and assurance of continuous operations. Zhou Hongquan, COO of the Government Public Services Digitalization BU of Huawei said: "The innovative city intelligent twins architecture is Huawei's latest achievement in core smart city technologies and applications. It helps city managers optimise operations efficiency of the city, improves residents' quality of life, and provide powerful support for the sustainable development of smart cities."  In practice, Huawei has successfully improved the collaboration e...