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This UAE Platform Wants To Replace Fashion Photo Shoots With AI

Built in Ajman, neofashion.ai launches with a free tier that puts studio-grade product imagery within reach of independent boutiques.

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neofashion.ai, an AI content platform built by UAE-based Fipera, has opened self-serve access, letting any fashion brand generate on-brand product photography, video, and marketing content from its own product photos and references. The launch follows a private beta in which three global apparel brands used the platform in live production, turning their own product images into on-model photography, e-commerce packshots, and campaign video.

The pitch is aimed at the economics of fashion imagery. “Fashion brands don’t have a creativity problem, they have a consistency and cost problem,” said Ali Alkan, founder of Fipera. “Our beta brands are producing catalog-scale imagery in hours instead of weeks, and it looks unmistakably like their brand, because every generation is grounded in their own references, not a generic average”.

That consistency claim rests on how the platform handles brand data. Each customer’s product references, saved model personas, and brand profile sit in a walled-off workspace and shape every generation — the company’s answer to general-purpose image generators, which it says produce averages rather than a brand’s look. The result, according to Fipera, is casting, fabric behavior, lighting, and mood that hold steady across large catalogs, with no brand’s images or settings ever shared with another customer or used to train its output.

Access scales from boutique to enterprise. A credit-based free tier lets an independent boutique sign up and start generating the same day, while paid plans grow with the brand and enterprise customers add extra fine-tuning controls, API access, and service-level agreements. Modules cover on-model photography, sketch-to-photo, flat lay and cut-out packshots, studio photos, campaign video, and batch tools for seasonal collections, plus a native Shopify integration that lets merchants generate and attach imagery from inside their store catalog.

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The platform draws on Fipera’s experience in fashion trading and retail commerce, and the company places the launch within the UAE’s National AI Strategy 2031 and D33 economic agenda — a push to make the country an exporter of AI products, not merely an adopter. Fipera says it is opening conversations with strategic and institutional investors to expand across the GCC, Europe, and Asia.

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Visa’s Return To Syria Starts With A Test And A Bank In Lebanon

Foreign visitors will be the first users to benefit, but whether Syria’s own banks and cardholders follow is still an open question.

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Visa is returning to Syria. Its first live international card transaction in the country was a test rather than a launch, and the milestone event ran through a Lebanese bank.

The acquirer (the bank on the merchant’s side of a card payment) was Fransabank Lebanon, with Paymera as the other named partner. Nadim Moujaes, who heads a Fransabank Group subsidiary, describes the test as both the culmination of “longstanding efforts to link Syria back to international payment networks” and “the first step in a larger path”.

“We are excited to have successfully tested live transactions today as we plan to enable international visitors to use their Visa cards while in Syria,” says Leila Serhan, Visa’s senior vice president and group country manager for the North Africa, Levant and Pakistan region. Although a significant first step, that plan doesn’t come with a hard date for when a visitor’s card will work normally.

Mohammed Safwat Raslan, governor of the Central Bank of Syria, says the test paves the way for international card acceptance in Syria and that maintaining strong compliance, risk management and operational controls will remain essential. Serhan likewise stresses that Visa has worked within applicable legal, regulatory and compliance requirements. For a test transaction, it seems there was a great deal of attention paid to the rules, with the entire operation being carefully managed.

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The test is the latest step in a sequence that began in December 2025, when Visa announced a strategic roadmap to support Syria’s integration into the global digital economy. In February 2026 it hosted its first industry gathering of banks, ecosystem partners and policymakers in Damascus and, the same month, signed an agreement with Syria’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in San Francisco.

Michel Kattouah, Paymera’s CEO, called the test “the return of international card acceptance,” but while that’s positive news, there’s no word yet on when a Syrian bank will issue a Visa card to a Syrian customer.

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