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Orange Morocco Chooses Neural Technologies Fraud Solution to Protect

Revenues

Neural Technologies, a provider of reve- its competitors.” Using advanced Or- and answer questions to meet our needs.”
nue protection and Digital Transformation ange Morocco Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ang Liang, COO at Neural Technologies
solutions, is to deliver its Revenue Assur- and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities, comments, “It is a challenging time for
ance and Fraud Management solution to Neural Technologies offers sophisticated telecommunications providers who are at
Orange Morocco. The new partnership will fraud detection processes that can adapt the forefront of dealing with an increasing
help Orange Morocco to detect and pre- to new threats as they arise in real-time number of risks and threats. Dealing with
vent fraud in the African and Middle East- before revenue is lost. “Identifying and high volumes of new threats requires an
ern markets where it serves its 22 million quickly responding to fraud is critical to automated and intelligent solution that of-
customers. With nearly three decades of our business to provide a safe and secure fers the maximum protection to financial
experience in the risk and revenue man- service to customers and avoid revenue systems.” Neural Technologies Revenue
agement fields, Neural Technologies was loss,” adds Belidri from Orange Morocco. Assurance and Fraud Management solu-
selected as the solution provider of choice. “We needed an automated process to de- tion is already being delivered to Orange
Yassine Belidri, IT manager Mediation & tect fraud which is why we selected Neural Morocco and the full implementation will
Provisioning from Orange Morocco says, Technologies’ fraud management solution be complete by March 2021. It will help
“Neural’s background and references in to identify and prevent fraud in real-time range Morocco to address frauds such as
the market, very good knowledge of the to protect our business. Neural’s technical SMS Spams, payment frauds, SIMBOX and
end users’ needs, and flexible and intui- offer provides the best quality, and its ex- adapt to new sophisticated threats that
tive interfaces are what put Neural above perts are always on hand to offer support arise in real-time.

Pakistan Ministry of IT Successfully Pitched 3 Start-Ups from Ignite NIC
Program in GITEX Summit

GITEX Technology Week serves as home
to tech startups. Amid visa and COVID-19
restrictions, the Ministry of Information
Technology and Telecommunication
successfully pitched 3 startups from Ignite
NIC Program. Among the participating
startups – WALEE, Pakistan’s largest
and fastest growing influencer and
social commerce platform, that enables
businesses to discover, contract,
collaborate and pay influencers who
market and sell for them at scale. Today,
50,000+ influencers and businesses
across 250+ cities are on Walee.pk. SE
Drop (Save Every Drop) is another startup
showcased at the mega event, offering two
product lines – one: wastewater recycling
systems to deal with water scarcity and
second: natural, alcohol and chemical-
free disinfectants. While the third startup, rollout via www.walee.ae. SE Drop attracted product suite from leads in new locations,
encore pay is a fintech which provides interest from Dubai Electricity and Water as well as VC interest. Notwithstanding the
a digital payments platform to financial Authority (DEWA), Dubai Municipality, pandemic, GITEX 2020 was the only major
institutions including banks, telecoms Fujairah Municipality, UAE and private in-person technology event to go live this
and payment networks. All three Ignite investors from Bahrain and Turkey for year with more than 1,200 innovative tech
NIC Program startups attracted interest the collaboration in wastewater recycling enterprises, startups and government
from the public and private entities. Walee management systems. GITEX-veteran, entities from 60 countries; over 200 of the
discussed with major global and regional encore pay, reconnected with clients and most active investors and VCs from 30
brands, PR, social and digital agencies to partners from Middle East and Africa, countries; and over 350 speakers from 30
implement scalable solutions for a 2021 and also received positive traction for its countries.
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