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Standard Chartered & Airtel Africa Partner to Drive Financial Inclusion Across Africa
Standard Chartered Bank has announced that the bank has entered into a strategic collaboration with Airtel Africa to drive financial inclusion across key markets in Africa by providing customers with increased access to mobile financial services.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Apollo Fintech Announces Completion of the First Blockchain National Currency Platform
Blockchain company Apollo Fintech is announcing the completion of its National Payment Platform (NPP), an innovative cashless system that enables a central bank to issue a sovereign, digital currency (stablecoin) for national adoption.
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- Finance, Technology
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- blockchain, fintech
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Why Mobile Money Growth Remains Stunted in Nigeria
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) published the Financial Inclusion Strategy (FIS) setting financial inclusion target of 80 percent realisation this year. Due to challenges within the system, the apex bank revised it last year to 95 percent by 2024. Mobile money, a veritable tool for achieving this ambitious goal, remains in the limbo because of certain factors.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: African Innovators Not Hitting Pause During COVID
Innovations in healthcare, online learning and fintech continue in Africa during the pandemic, Lydiah Bosire writes.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Why Hasn’t Africa Gone Digital?
Countries with weak power infrastructures—which were already struggling to compete in the new digital economy—are facing bleak prospects in a post-lockdown world in which Zoom, Dropbox and Google Classroom are the new office or school.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: How Mobile Wallets Fend Off Economic Shocks
Households as well as companies can mitigate economic risks better by adopting mobile-based transactions, a new study finds.
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- Finance, Technology
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: Data-Driven Collective Action Is Imperative For A Post-Covid-19 Development Agenda
It is feared that decades of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) may simply be erased, thanks to the pandemic. In times like these, the development community must look inwards and ultimately refocus its efforts to serve the most vulnerable and prevent large-scale socio-economic devastation.
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- Coronavirus, Impact Assessment, Technology
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- data, global development, SDGs
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VCs Get Behind Disaster Tech in Search for Innovative Life-Saving Technologies
Creating profitable growth and social impact through partnerships - here’s how VCs are supporting Disaster Tech
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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