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- Investors keen to grow mobile money in Somaliland
- Rwanda: Central Bank grants testing approval to emerging fintech firm
- KENYA: Mobile money firms transferred Sh1.9trn between April and June - report
- Flutterwave Completes Series A Extension Financing Round
- Only a week to the 7th Remittance & Payment Expo 2018. Early registration still open!
- Nigeria’s GSM Operators Inaugurate Financial Inclusion Committee
- GHANA:Mobile Money Interoperability crosses the 1 million mark
- NIGERIA:Xpress Payments lures unbanked Nigerians with products, services
- Uganda:Shs100 billion given out in mobile money loans in three years
- NIGERIA: CBN To Licence Payment Service Banks To Boost Financial Inclusion .
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A financial technology firm, Flutterwave Inc., has announced the completion of its Series A Extension round of financing, saying the latest round...
Welcome the impact Payment Banking Licenses will have on driving Financial InclusionNigeria’s largest GSM operators: Glo, 9Mobile, Airtel, M...
With a large number of Nigerians still financially excluded, predominantly in rural areas, many industry stakeholders have recognised the need to...
As part of efforts to promote financial inclusion and enhance access to financial services for low income earners and the unbanked, the Central B...
Victor AsemotaContributor - Guardian NewspaperAbout six years ago, I was at a hotel in Nairobi for a Mobile Payments conference. I had a meeting...
By Elizabeth Adegbesan The value of mobile money transactions through licensed mobile payment operators (interscheme) fell...
Cross mobile money wallet transactions otherwise known as mobile money interoperability, has recorded over 1.1 million volume of transactions, fr...
In order to ensure a speedy and effective prosecution of criminals who engage in cyber fraud, Scancom PLC (MTN Ghana) has taken another judicious...
Some players operating in the mobile money sector are calling on the Bank of Ghana to review the limit of transactions that is currently permitte...
Togo’s minister of posts and digital economy, Cina Lawson, got the approval to develop TogoPay, an e-payment interoperable platform. This was dur...
Management of MoneyGram, a global provider of money transfer services and Zeepay, a mobile financial services company, have launched MoneyGram to...
Cross network mobile money transactions continue to rise month in month out after it was introduced in May this year, reaching almost 800,000 at...
On the dusty streets of Somaliland's capital Hargeisa, Mohammed Ahmed Ismail is arranging paper money in his tidy, waiting for clients who wish t...
As governments move to encourage the digitalization of financial services, the regulatory testing environment concept, popularly known as ‘s...
Kenyans are increasingly adopting a cashless system having used Sh1.43 trillion to pay for goods and services through their mobile phones between...
Telecoms have, in the last three years, disbursed more than Shs100b in mobile loans, according to data.MTN, according to Ms Elsa Muzzolini, the c...
For more than six months now, Kenya's 37.8 million mobile money customers have been able to send cash across rival platforms in what is technical...
Telecoms yesterday said they were happy following the end to the mobile money tax stalemate that had taken nearly three months. Mobile money...
Interest in African fintech businesses continues as an Egyptian mobile payment provider changes hands on the private equity market.A majority sta...
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...
Global payments company Visa, the second-largest card payment company to China Union Pay – CUP on a global level is expected see a drastic drop i...
Nume EkegheThe Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has stated that any failed Nigerian Instant Payment (NIP) transaction not reversed into the customer...
Access Bank Zambia, a member of Access Bank group Plc plans to launch whatsApp banking on the Zambian market. This follow successful launches and...
AMA.ZING is now offering millions of Zimbabweans the ability to purchase US$-linked digital coins that are easily converted to buy products and p...
Econet Wireless' mobile financial technology division EcoCash has partnered Mastercard to introduce EcoCash Scan & Pay payments solution desi...
A critical element of CEO Mark Barnes’s plan to save the loss-making Post Office entails that it be licensed as a fully fledged bank.The SA Post...
The potent forces of globalization and migration make the global economy a formidable entity. Migration is integral as it helps boost the economy...
Xoom, PayPal’s international money transfer service, today announced a partnership with Ria, a subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide and a global...
An international payments provider, MoneyGram, has announced the expansion of its digital platform to five new countries.According to its operato...
Banco Agrario, a prominent state-run bank focused on rural and agricultural sector, Telefonica Colombia, one of the leading telecom operators in...
Global customer engagement company, Clickatell, is an authorized WhatsApp Business Solution Provider. Clickatell's customers on WhatsApp Bus...
Stellar Lumens [XLM] has announced that it is partnering with TransferTo to facilitate cross-border transfer of currency. TransferTo, which speci...
