Arab Financial Services (AFS), a digital payment solutions provider and fintech enabler in the Middle East and Africa, has relocated its UAE data centre operations to Equinix Dubai International Business Exchange (IBX) facilities in Dubai, known as DX1. AFS currently has data centres in Bahrain and UAE.
Through connecting to a prime commercial hub for international business in the MENA region, AFS opens a vast range of international opportunities for its customers, enabling them to benefit from connections to major international payments companies and cloud providers such as AWS and Microsoft.
Equinix currently operates more than 240 data centres globally, each one housing rich and vibrant ecosystems that allow network and content providers, cloud and IT service providers, and enterprise customers to exchange critical business data quickly and efficiently. The new Equinix data centre connection gives AFS’s regional payments processing business a secure and powerful global data centre platform for which to scale its operations with next-generation digital infrastructure.
Ghassan Mardini, AFS Chief Operating Officer, commented: “Equinix is the right partner for AFS. As a Company that recognizes digital transformation as a critical business priority, AFS is committed to continuous & evolving innovation across the payments landscape. Establishing a global data centre platform helps us further to support our clients and power their digital transaction transformation by providing agile, resilient, secure, and scalable payments solutions. In today’s ongoing and progressive digital transformation, our infrastructure must fuel innovation, not hinder it.”
Kamel Al Tawil, Managing Director MENA, Equinix stated: “Our agreement with AFS is a testament to Equinix being the trusted global platform that businesses rely on to advance their digital-first strategies and equip their digital transformation journeys. Many IT organizations across a range of sectors including financial services, are busy building infrastructure and hybrid multi-cloud architectures at the edge to deal with rapidly expanding data requirements, putting workloads and data protection close to data sources which is where they work best.”
