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Where preparation meets opportunity: How TPay Mobile put Egypt on the Fintech map

Sahar Salama, Founder and CEO of TPay Mobile

In a country with low banking penetration and high mobile adoption, Sahar Salama saw a business opportunity in creating a payment solution through telecom operators. She used her experience at Link Development to create a direct operator billing model and launched TPay Mobile in 2014.

Launched in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE simultaneously, they now operate in over 18 markets across MENA covering almost 51 mn transactions a day.

The company made headlines in 2017 by making the first wholesale acquisition of a fintech company in Egypt when they…

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