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Kissflow appoints new regional director ahead of MEA investment of Sujay Patil as its new Regional Director for the Middle East and Africa ( MEA ).
In his new role , Patil will be responsible for driving Kissflow ’ s vision and revenue objectives in the MEA , championing Digital Transformation success for regional end-customers and driving the sustainability and profitability of the company ’ s valued channel ecosystem .
Alongside the appointment , the company also announced the inauguration of its new regional headquarters in Dubai Internet City , which will be followed by a large-scale expansion of its team , with appointments spanning sales , channel and operational roles .
Another key initiative Patil will look to drive in his early days at Kissflow is the implementation of a structured partner programme with the aim of replicating the successful alliance the company has built with Google in the APAC region .
Sujay Patil , Regional Director for Middle East and Africa , Kissflow
As it looks to aggressively grow its share in the US $ 50 billion lowcode market , Kissflow has announced the appointment
“ Since the establishment of our physical presence in the Middle East over two years ago , we have seen the demand for low-code and no-code platforms skyrocket as businesses have looked to digitalise operations at an unprecedented pace and scale ,” said Suresh Sambandam , Kissflow CEO .
Volante Technologies and Finextra ’ s report reveals MEA aims for payments modernisation
Volante Technologies , a global leader in cloud payments and financial messaging , has announced that banks and FinTech firms in the Middle East and Africa ( MEA ) are planning more investment in payments modernisation over the next two years than any other region in the world .
Data from Finextra ’ s Payments Modernisation : The Big Survey 2022 , in collaboration with Volante , indicates that the beginning of 2022 was been a busy period for payments modernisation , propelled by mandates at the national and cross-border infrastructure level and the drive towards instant , real-time payments .
The survey elicited the highest proportion of responses ( 22.3 %) confirming modernisation plans in a one-to-two-year timeframe from MEA , compared with the rest of the world . Although COVID-19 put several projects on hold at the start of 2021 , planning for payments modernisation was well underway at that stage and led to this flurry of activity in 2022 .
Vijay Oddiraju , CEO at Volante Technologies , said : “ Our discussions with MEA financial institutions clearly show that there is now a race towards becoming realtime 24 / 7 in the MEA payments space and the future is taking payments into the cloud . We are committed to investing our time and resources in MEA , working as trusted partners to banks in the region to ensure they are ready with the right payments modernisation technology .”
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