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The German internet company Rocket Internet took an initial step into Pakistan's e-commerce sector with the establishment of Daraz.pk in July 2012. [19] Following a positive reception in Pakistan with its first e-commerce venture, Rocket Internet expanded its operations in Pakistan to over 30 active websites in 2015, the widest known being Kaymu.pk, Foodpanda.pk and Daraz.pk. [20] In a recent ...
'Extend', formerly SPAN) is the major payment system in Saudi Arabia. Established by Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), it connects all ATM and point of-sale (PoS) terminals throughout the country to a central payment switch, which in turn re-routes the financial transactions to the card issuer (local bank, Visa, American Express or MasterCard).
In an assessment undertaken by the United Nations e-Government Survey, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was ranked the 30th among 40 other cities. [4] In August 2019, Saudi Arabia announced a royal decree to establish the Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence to support the innovation and digital transformation in the country.
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia.Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2,150,000 km 2 (830,000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the largest in the Middle East, and the 12th-largest in the world.
The Ministry of Commerce (MC; Arabic: وزارة التجارة) is a cabinet-level government ministry of Saudi Arabia responsible for both commerce and investment sectors in the kingdom. [1] Its responsibilities include the development and implementation of policies and mechanisms that govern the sectors of commerce and Investment. [ 1 ]
Bank name (English) Bank name (Arabic) Headquarters Founded Stock code [3]; Saudi National Bank (SNB) البنك الأهلي السعودي: Riyadh: 1953
Saudi Arabia is doing many reforms to reduce the country's dependency on oil revenues, but many of these reforms have overburdened some citizens. The Citizen's Account, which is a form of basic income , is designed to balance this up, to avoid burdening lower income families which would otherwise occur despite higher prices for oil, fuel and ...
In addition to its functions, the Saudi Central Bank controls SAMA Foreign Holdings, the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia. The fund is the third largest sovereign wealth fund in the world, with assets of over $700 billion. [15] In October 2015, Governor Fahad Abdullah Al-Mubarak of the Saudi Central Bank was ranked #2 on the Public ...