#41 Tarjama CEO Nour Al Hassan; Translator Marketplaces, INC 5000 LSPs

SlatorPod welcomes Nour Al Hassan, CEO of the Middle East’s leading language services provider, Tarjama. A lawyer by training, Nour talks about how she started in the language industry and grew Tarjama to 160 employees, the decision to build a proprietary translation management platform, and her take on language services demand in the MENA region.

Before Nour’s segment, Slator’s Florian and Esther kick off the week’s language industry news with a discussion about translator marketplaces in light of Across Systems’ decision to retire their version of it, “Crossmarket.” (Spoiler alert: They plan to launch a new one in 2021.)

Esther talks about her recent experience during an LSP’s Capital Markets Day and Florian shares news that the South Korea Exchange, KRX, has started to offer English translation services for regulatory filings of eligible companies, which include the likes of Naver, Samsung Biologics, and more than 50 others.

The duo also discuss the handful of US-based LSPs that made this year’s Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies, and highlight some insights from the latest UK ATC Coronavirus pulse survey, where 85% of respondents said they are seeing signs of recovery in the language services industry.