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- Stripe buys Nigeria's Paystack for $200M
- UGANDA: Mobile money services between Airtel and MTN restored
- KENYA:Mobile payment records major growth on Covid-19 restrictions
- Mastercard partners with Samsung, Airtel and Asante to drive digital inclusion in Africa through Pay-on-Demand services
- Somalia: Remittance Firm Fights Money Laundering Claims
- Uganda: Thugs Used Registered SIM Cards to Hack Into Banks, Says Source
- Cameroon: Counterfeit Bank Notes Infiltrate the Economy
- Kenyans increase use of plastic cards amid the COVID-19 pandemic
- Tanzania: Airtel, Worldremit Partner to Enhance Mobile Services
- NIGERIA: Paxful strengthens Crypto transactions with addition of Naira token
Latest Stories
Global peer-to-peer crypto marketplace Paxful partnered with BuyCoins as part of its localization efforts to add Naira token (NGNT), a Naira pegg...
Mastercard, NetPlusDotCom and Innovectives have announced a milestone in their partnership to provide micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (...
SOURCE: https://sec.gov.ngINTRODUCTIONDigital assets offerings provide alternative investment opportunities for the investing publ...
By Collins NwezeThe Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has authorised Payment Service Banks (PSBs) to sell foreign currencies (forex) realised f...
The Vice President of Ghana Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has been vindicated by the Central Bank of Kenya over his claims that Ghana’s Interoperabi...
The Nigerian Communications Commission has revised the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data pricing to allow mobile network operators and fina...
The African internet economy is expanding quickly, with online commerce in the region growing 21% year-over-year, 75% faster than the global aver...
The number of fake bank notes in circulation is a cause for concern.The population of Douala, capital of the Littoral region, is still to come to...
An ongoing survey conducted by the e-Crime Bureau of Ghana has so far revealed that incidents of mobile money fraud have heightened.The developme...
The value of mobile money transactions has more than doubled in the last twelve months, according to the Bank of Ghana.The total value shot up by...
The use of cheques to make payment could witness further decline in volume, following the addition of the Automated Clearing House Direct Credit,...
Mobile telecommunications operator, MTN Ghana has indicated that it plans to roll out its Artificial Intelligence (AI) system to check Mobile Mon...
Mobile money services between MTN Uganda and Airtel Uganda customers have been restored. They had been suspended on October 5 after unknown hacke...
Mobile money use reached a record high between Mach and June, as use of cash declined as part of the containment measures or Covid-19, according...
Mastercard has announced a partnership with Samsung, Airtel Africa and Asante Financial Services Group (“Asante”) to launch a Pay-on-Demand payme...
Somalia's money remittance firm Amal Express says it is open to an audit by regulators to prove it has not aided money laundering for purchase of...
A source in one of the two major telecom companies that fraudsters used to withdraw money and send after hacking an electronic financial provider...
The use of plastic cards in Kenya surged 63 percent between April and August as the east African nation citizens embraced cashless transactions a...
-inwi money, a subsidiary of inwi and leading telecom player in mobile money services, has expanded its offering with the launch of an internatio...
Money transfer agency Cash Plus has launched the “Cash Plus Mobile Wallet” application, offering its customers the oppor...
Dubai-based Careem has launched a new ‘super app’ to offer all its services on a single platform.The company, which has been hit hard by the Covi...
Dubai-based mobile payments company Tpay has bought Payguru, a digital payment service provider based in Turkey, for an undisclosed sum as it loo...
elecom company Orange Maroc launched its popular mobile money service, Orange Money, in Morocco on Tuesday, March 10.The mobile operato...
Egyptian authorities gave the go-ahead for Uber's acquisition of Dubai-based ride-hailing app Careem after imposing a set of conditions, clearing...
Mukuru and WorldRemit today announced a deepening of their existing partnership. Having initially launched the alliance in Zimbabw...
Zimbabwe has been singled out as one of the countries with the lowest daily mobile money transaction limits in Africa, a development seen as hind...
Zimbabwe has been singled out as one of the countries with lowest daily mobile money transaction limits in Africa, a development seen as hinderin...
THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has urged the government to allow greater use of mobile money platfor...
MultiChoice Namibia has confirmed a strategic partnership with leading African payment service provider, DPO Group, to enable...
Through an extended partnership with Mastercard and Nedbank, Ukheshe Technologies the payments platform specialist, has launched its Third-Party...
In the wake of a 2019 report by the World Bank setting out plans to digitalise the entirety of Africa by 2030, UK-based money transfer provider P...
UAE-based payment solutions provider Network International saw its total revenues in the Middle East drop by 15.3 percent in the first six m...
Standard Chartered Bank (www.SC.com) and Airtel Africa have today announced a strategic collaboration to drive financial inclusion across key mar...
MTN Group plans to sell part or all of its $243m (R4.1bn) interest in Jumia Technologies as part of its strategy to pay off its debts and expand...
The GSMA launched a mobile money interoperability testing platform (ITP), designed to provide an open, secure environment for operators, financia...
MoneyGram International, Inc, a global leader in cross-border P2P payments and money transfers, today announced a partnership with Digital F...
