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MoneyHash, a payment orchestration platform built for emerging and global markets, has announced a new partnership with Wayl, a local payment solutions provider, checkout engine, and merchant of record supporting global and regional businesses entering the Iraqi market.

The GSMA launched a new innovation fund on Monday to support small enterprises that use mobile and digital technologies to transition to green practices in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Tata Communications announced on Monday it is partnering with RailTel Corporation of India to fortify the latter’s fibre backbone infrastructure to support AI development in the country.

The Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) said on Friday it has granted Orange Money a separate license to operate as a mobile money service provider under new regulations requiring telcos to decouple from their mobile money subsidiaries.

Google has announced an investment of US$500 million in the construction of submarine cables and an international digital exchange port for the Dominican Republic. This will apparently be the company’s eighth digital exchange port in the world and the first in Latin America.

Bharti Airtel has strengthened its cybersecurity strategy by launching a new AI & Cyber Threat Research Centre in India, in partnership with US-based cloud security firm Zscaler.

Payment giant Visa says it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire two payment-related companies in Argentina – Prisma Medios de Pago and Newpay – from global private equity investor Advent International.

MTN Digital infrastructure – a.k.a. Bayobab – announced on Saturday that its subsidiary Bayobab Zambia has partnered with Vodacom Mozambique to interconnect their fibre networks at the Zambia–Mozambique border.

Indonesian mobile operator Telkomsel has officially implemented facial recognition as a verification tool for new prepaid SIM registrations, after almost a year and a half of trialling the technology.

Nigerian operators have settled a long-running unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) payment dispute with commercial banks. It seems that, five years after the dispute began, all outstanding payments have now been made.

Colocation data centre services provider, ST Telemedia Global Data Centres  (STT GDC) has announced the launch of its fourth data centre in the Indian city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, marking the expansion of its second campus in the city at Siruseri, a southern suburb of Chennai.

The Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects (KAPP) has reportedly secured conditional approval from the State Audit Bureau (SAB) to award a KWD19.9 million (US$64.8 million) contract for a project to modernise Kuwait’s fixed-line telecoms infrastructure.

Telkom Indonesia’s international arm Telin announced on Thursday it is partnering with IPification to commercialize its Mobile Network Verification (MNV) solution, which leverages Telkom’s network APIs to authenticate users without the need for OTPs.

Finnfund, the Finnish development financier and impact investor, says it has made a follow-on investment in a company called Communication & Renewable Energy Infrastructure (CREI) to scale up sustainable telecom energy infrastructure in South Sudan.

Terranova, the hyperscale data centre platform backed by the Actis infrastructure fund, described as one of the largest and longest-standing sustainable infrastructure investors globally, has launched its first data centre in Mexico.

Nvidia’s latest survey reveals artificial intelligence is delivering tangible commercial impact across telecommunications, becoming central to network automation and investment strategies as operators prepare for next-generation services.

International network services provider RETN says it has launched a new fibre backbone route between Estonia and Latvia as part of its broader expansion plan to diversify connectivity between Northern and Central Europe.

Google Cloud announced on Thursday that it will build three new subsea cables connecting India to the US via South Africa, Singapore and Australia as part of its grand plan to establish an AI hub in India.

Microsoft said it remains on track to invest US$50 billion by 2030 to expand access to artificial intelligence across emerging markets in the Global South, framing the move as part of a broader effort to narrow what it calls the growing “AI divide”.

Telecommunications technology giant Ericsson and Mastercard, a global technology company in the payments industry, have announced a collaboration they claim can reshape how money moves across the world – beginning with the Middle East and Africa.

Cloud-native banking platform 10x Banking has announced a strategic partnership with HassemPrag, a leading African digital banking and orchestration platform, targeting African banks.

In an interesting example of an operator taking its sustainability message right into the public marketplace, service provider Hutch Sri Lanka has launched the first in what it promises will be a number of sustainability-led retail outlets.

Bosnia and Herzegovina market leader BH Telecom is upgrading its convergent charging and payments platform via an extension of its partnership with Qvantel.

Nokia has reportedly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iraqi technology and infrastructure investment group T964 to modernise Iraq’s telecoms and digital infrastructure.

Telkom Indonesia is reportedly considering the sale of a significant stake in its data centre arm NeutraDC, in a move that could raise around US$1.5 billion.

IT services, consulting and business solutions specialist Tata Consultancy Services and high-performance and AI computing company AMD have expanded their strategic collaboration to support India’s national AI initiatives.

SpaceX has secured approval to launch its Starlink satellite broadband service in Vietnam, after receiving licences from the government to provide both fixed and mobile satellite services.

Technology giant Ericsson and specialized by stc have signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to accelerate the development of advanced mission-critical communication capabilities that support Saudi Arabia’s national public safety ecosystem.

Virgin Mobile Kuwait by Connect Arabia WLL says it has partnered with Kidzonet to launch a new SIM solution that promises safer digital access for children than traditional parental controls by screening content at the network level.

Du Pay, the digital financial services arm of UAE-based telco du, says it is collaborating with Nepalese digital remittance firm Esewa Money Transfer to promote cross-border payments to Nepalese expats in the UAE.