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- BVNK launches Mobile Money support for Bitcoin and Litecoin purchases in Africa
- RWANDA:Remittances rise by 17 per cent last year
- GHANA:Mobile Banking app and USSD launched
- MTN aims to launch mobile service in Namibia
- Orange : Botswana, EcoCash and TransferTo team up to deliver real-time mobile digital payments between Botswana and Zimbabwe
- KENYA:Mobile money transfer charges to go up as Rotich increases duty to 12%
- NIGERIA:Transactions via cheque hit N1.32 trillion in three months
- GHANA:The future of digital payments; is the end nigh for cash?
- BoG to halt fraud in Ghana’s payment systems
- GHANA:E-zwich usage up by 60%
Latest Stories
BVN linked accounts now 45.1millionAbout N1.32 trillion values of transactions were carried through cheque truncation in the first three months o...
Leading digital money transfer service WorldRemit has joined forces with First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) for instant money transfers to...
Feyisayo PopoolaThe International Finance Corporation has said Nigeria is lagging behind its peers in sub-Saharan Africa in terms of financial in...
OROBO, the newly-launched money transfer platform from Saana Holdings, is opening up cross- border remittance and bill-payments into Nigeria, Gha...
Feyisayo PopoolaThe Central Bank of Nigeria has extended the start date for the implementation of the regulatory framework for use of unstructure...
By Chijioke NelsonRemittances represent household income from foreign economies, mainly from the temporary or permanent residents in other...
United Kingdom FinTech, BVNK, has recently added Mobile Money support to their cryptocurrency platform that enables consumers to buy, store and u...
United Bank for Africa (Ghana) Limited, in line with its strategy to drive the experience of “banking without boundaries” to its customers throug...
BY Sandra ManuThe advent of digital, mobile and social media has integrated finance into the daily life of the individual in a way it never...
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has indicated that it will put in a robust system this month to halt fraud related activities associated with the country...
The use of e-zwich to pay some government employees has led to a 60 percent growth in use of this payment platform in the country, the latest Ban...
MoneyGram (NASDAQ:MGI)
announced today the launch of money transfer service directly to any
bank account in Ghana. Funds can be sent via...
BJames KaruhangaInbound remittances to Rwanda increased by 17 percent from $155.4 million in fiscal year 2015/2016 to $181.9 million in fiscal ye...
BY PATRICK VIDIJA and EMMANUEL WANJALAKenyans will be forced to dig deeper into their pockets to get mobile money transfer services.Tre...
BY CONSTANT MUNDAThe frequency of use of cards as a means of payments increased by nearly a million in the first three months of the year, l...
Diversity in the mobile money lending sector has gone notch higher with the launch of a new mobile money-lending app. The Okolea International le...
The Ugandan parliament has voted to impose a tax on the use of social media. Opponents of the law argue it will be hard to enforce, could hit som...
Ingenico Group (Euronext: FR0000125346 – ING) (www.Ingenico.com), the world leader in seamless payment, supported the roll-out of a secure biomet...
The Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research (Baseera) announced that the value of financial transactions through the electronic payment n...
UAE Exchange announced the launch of its new money transfer mobile app and website in the UAE, multiplying customer convenience with preferenti...
The Central Bank of Egypt approved increasing caps on cash withdrawals and depositing under mobile-phone cash transfer services, head of marketin...
The Middle East region has seen a 22 percent increase in online transactions during 2016, according to data revealed by Payfort, an Amazon comp...
The mobile payments company Fortumo and the mobile operator group Orange are announcing today the launch of direct carrier...
When a cash crisis struck the war-torn North African country of Libya, many people were forced to queue for days to withdraw their savings.But...
MTN Group, Africa’s biggest mobile telecoms firm, is aiming to launch a mobile service in Namibia around the end of August, a company executive t...
Early this year, Orange Money Botswana and EcoCash launched a new partnership to enable better and more affordable access to digital money transf...
By Barbara MaregeleThe South African Post Office will soon be responsible for paying all social grant beneficiaries, including those paid in cash...
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has become the first local mobile operator to successfully replicate the model used by Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom...
Johannesburg
— AFRICAN consumers account for over R500 million (US$40 million) in
transactions per month on Paxful, the global peer-to-peer c...
The Shoprite Group has announced ‘Shoprite Money’ – a new mobile transactional banking service which is available to everyone...
mCoin (https://mCoin.ONEm.com)
is the world’s first Cryptocurrency which works on any mobile with or
without the internet. It is supported on...
By Emma Okonji The seventh annual state of the industry report on mobile money that was released recently by GSMA, shows that at the end o...
The international payment system Mastercard has implemented the Tarantool database management system for secure money transfers to cards.This new...
TransferTo, a leading global cross-border mobile payments network for emerging markets, is today announcing record growth across its Internatio...
Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group, and The Dubai Mall, the world&rs...
MFS Africa, a leading Pan-African FinTech company, today announced a $4.5m Series B funding round led by LUN Partners Group, a&nbs...
