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Yango Deli Tech Partners With Grocery Delivery Platform Nana
The partnership will allow Nana to significantly enhance user experience and support MENA region expansion plans.
Nana, Saudi Arabia’s leading online grocery delivery platform, has a presence in 18 cities and offers speedy delivery of over 22,000 products. Today, the company announced a partnership with Yango Deli Tech to realize its MENA-wide expansion plans.
Yango Deli Tech is a “global company providing proprietary technologies and expertise for retailers”. The company’s AI-based smart technology solutions will help to make Nana’s fulfillment and delivery operations more efficient while boosting client experience and offering enhanced analytics.
The official partnership follows a pilot project at one of Nana’s stores earlier this year. The experiment showed that the delivery platform could reduce the average missing items per day by 97% using a warehouse management system featuring smart routing and a dedicated stock-picking app that decreased order preparation time by over 35%. At present, the partnership is working at full capacity across all of Nana’s stores.
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In a recent statement, Max Avtukhov, Yango Deli Tech’s CEO, commented: “We are honored to partner with Nana to advance on a global mission of making high-tech e-grocery the reality of today and provide best-in-class user experience to consumers in Saudi Arabia and other markets in the Middle East”.
Meanwhile, Sami Alhelwah, Nana Co-Founder and CEO, noted: “Tackling one of the major pain points of the retail sector within the region, we have partnered with Yango Deli Tech to provide our company with the technological and operational experience of other markets to address stock inaccuracies and replenishment inefficiencies which will support our vision and fuel our ambitious goals for further expansion and growth”.
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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.
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”.
Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa makes the first electronic payment in Syria using a @Visa card at a store in Damascus, following the lifting of US sanctions on Syria. pic.twitter.com/lpAN7nQ6Fc
— Tech Magazine (@TechMGZN) August 27, 2026
“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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