The Road Ahead: Visa Webinar Discusses How A Shift To Digital Can Help In The Recovery Of SMEs In The UAE – Entrepreneur

The Road Ahead: Visa Webinar Discusses How A Shift To Digital Can Help In The Recovery Of SMEs In The UAE – Entrepreneur

With Entrepreneur Middle East Editor in Chief Aby Sam Thomas as the moderator, the discussion was led by Saeed Al Marri, Deputy CEO, Dubai SME, Madhur Mehra, MENA Head of Merchant Sales and Acquiring at Visa, and Raed Hafez, CEO of elGrocer.





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As part of its #WhereYouShopMatters initiative in the UAE, digital payments leader Visa held a webinar in late June to discuss the role of digitization in helping SMEs navigate through the COVID-19 crisis. With Entrepreneur Middle East Editor in Chief Aby Sam Thomas as the moderator, the discussion was led by Saeed Al Marri, Deputy CEO, Dubai SME, Madhur Mehra, MENA Head of Merchant Sales and Acquiring at Visa, and Raed Hafez, CEO of elGrocer.

Thomas kicked off the conversation by noting how Visa's COVID-19 CEMEA Impact Tracker  had found that 89% of small businesses in the UAE had noticed a decrease in