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- Payguru and Iyzico Launch Direct Carrier Billing for Digital Wallets in Global First
- Thunes partners with Ethio Telecom to enable cross-border mobile money transfers
- SA:Pick n Pay Can Now Serve Millions of Customers on WhatsApp with Clickatell's Chat Commerce Solution
- NIGERIA: CBN, payment system operators move to fast-track e-Naira usage
- GHANA:GITFIC signs Memorandum of Understanding with Mowali
- Ghanaians should brace themselves: the electronic transactions tax is here to stay
- Ghana slams 1.75 Percent E-levy on MoMo, electronic transactions
- Airtel Africa gets extra funding for its mobile money business
- NIGERIA: CBN Grants Airtel Approval-in-Principle to Operate Super Agent
- NIGERIA: Innovectives Expands to Digitize 1 Million SMEs, Obtains CBN License for PSS
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E-Settlement (E-SL), a Nigerian fintech group of companies, has acquired QuickCash, an Ivorian electronic payment and money transfer company, to...
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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...
The Board of Directors at the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has approved the third edition of the rules for mobile phone wallet payment services.Th...
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...
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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...
