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- Tanzania: Airtel Disburses 2bn/ - Interests to Airtel Money Users
- Bank of Tanzania payment system set for February 2021 roll-out
- Egypt’s CBE launches web portal for mobile phone wallet management
- ETHIOPIA: Central bank grants ArifPay first Fintech license
- Digital loans: Regulatory gaps create sweet-sour experiences for consumers in Nigeria
- KENYA: Mobile lenders to disclose charges before loan offers
- GHANA: Debating the electronic transaction levy …our reasoned opinion (2)
- Economist Impact and Mastercard study reveals that Middle East and Africa is a fertile ground for the growth of super-apps
- Mobile Money Transaction Values to Exceed $870 Billion in Emerging Markets by 2026, as the Payments-as‑a‑platform Model Accelerates
- Kenyan firm gets CBK nod to take on M-Pesa
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Emmanuel OkoegwalePrincipal Associate, MobileMoneyAfricaAs many African government authorities scratch their heads on how
to deal with the...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), payment service providers (PSPs) and other players in financial technology (fintech) met in Lagos, yesterday,...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday granted Airtel Nigeria the approval in principle to operate super-agent network in Nigeria.Airtel Afr...
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Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has announced a new 1.75 per cent tax called E-levy on mobile money and all electronic transactions in the countr...
E-Settlement (E-SL), a Nigerian fintech group of companies, has acquired QuickCash, an Ivorian electronic payment and money transfer company, to...
Mobile money transactions for the first eight months of this year far exceeded cheque transactions by a massive ¢522.9 billion.This is compared t...
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The company has a paid-up capital 140 million birrThe National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) gives the first Fintech license to ArifPay, enabling it to...
Mobile digital lenders will be required to disclose the total charges including interest rates, late payment and rollover fees for their loans be...
Nairobi-based electronic payments firm ViewTech has been authorised by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) to facilitate in-person payments through t...
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The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) approved Wednesday the launch of the electronic portal for managing mobile phone wallet accounts, in cooperation...
The Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) approved the rules governing the services of the instantaneous payment network within t...
Cash-strapped Egyptians fearful of banks have long relied on a "gameya" to access money in time of need, but now tech startups are cashing in on...
Egypt's central bank has approved the granting of licences to allow merchants to accept contactless payments from their customers' mobile p...
The Egyptian Cabinet’s Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) announced Sunday that Egypt has joined the list of countries whose central...
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has set unified definitions for active and dormant bank accounts in the local market, in light of its efforts to...
Clickatell (https://bit.ly/3xnA5aF), a leader in mobile communications and chat commerce, has been selected by leading African retailer Pick n Pa...
CASSAVA Smartech's mobile money business, EcoCash, revenue for the year to February 28, 2021 declined by 26 percent to $8,6 billion compared to $...
UNITEL on Monday launched a digital money service "UNITEL Money" in Angola, the UNITEL's press office confirmed here to Xinhua.The service allows...
When Cassava Smartech was demerged from Econet Zimbabwe and separately listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, the move was seen as the beginning...
FNB is rolling mobile ATMs to KwaZulu-Natal communities, starting in Dalton and Harding, while other units will soon be set up in Jozini and Rich...
By Jaco Saunders, Commercial Director at MACmobileMobile money has seen massive uptake in Africa over the last decade, however, South Africa has...
The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), a global leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, today announces the advancemen...
Revenue growth of 19% y/y; driven by spending recovery in the UAE UAE and Jordan value of payments processed with merchant customers (direct...
Today, the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) announced that Flutterwave, a global payments technology company, has launched two...
TerraPay, a global payments infrastructure company, today announced the partnership with LuLu International Exchange, part of the LuLu Financial...
Dubai-headquartered Network International has acquired African-based technology-enabled payments enabler DPO Group in a deal worth $291.3 million...
Pawame, a UAE-based off-grid solar start-up has secured a funding of $2.5 million as it looks to expand further into sub-Saharan Africa.The fundi...
