2021-04-15 09:58
In the 170 years since Western Union was founded, no company has managed to solve two basic problems that continue to bedevil the remittance business — exorbitant fees and slow deposit… Read More
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2021-04-15 09:51
Paternalism and racism must be tackled if the EU is to rebuild trust with a young, economically dynamic continent Read More
2021-04-14 11:42
Twitter Inc. is planning to hire its first product and engineering team in Africa, an effort to expand its workforce in emerging markets where the social media company hopes to attract new u… Read More
2021-04-12 21:07
Over the last year, the COVID-19 pandemic has fueled a shift towards digital banking and mobile money. In Africa, this change in habits has international investors eyeing the lucrative oppor… Read More
2021-04-11 02:00
Nigeria remains a largely cash-dominated country. There are more than 100 million adult Nigerians, of which more than half have little or no access to financial services Read More
2021-04-11 01:36
One of the long-running tensions in the African startup investment ecosystem has been whether the Silicon Valley funding model, which seems to have been transferred wholesale to Africa&rsquo&hell…Read More
2021-04-08 09:47
Africa continues to be the global leader in mobile money services, a position boosted by the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced people to turn to digital services as a safer transaction method… Read More
2021-04-08 02:01
The $100 million investment from global payments giant Mastercard in the mobile money business arm of Airtel Africa announced last week is a sign of the rapid growth and optimism in Africa&r&hell…Read More
2021-04-07 12:53
Nigeria’s biggest lender Access Bank has invested around $60 million to acquire a stake in South Africa’s Grobank, its chief executive said last week, to become the first Nigeria… Read More
2021-04-06 18:24
A generation of young people is embracing age-old customs in a modern way and changing the narrative of Rwanda's troubled past Read More
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