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Visa Says Malaysia Is the Next Big Mobile Payments Market
Finding the next big growth market is a challenge for pretty much anybody, and mobile payments firms are no different.
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Securitization portfolio of Indian microfinance industry plummets in Q3 due to note ban
The cash-intensive microfinance industry’s securitisation portfolio plummeted in the quarter ended December because of demonetisation, according to a report released on Thursday by Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN).
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Meet The App That’s Empowering The Women Of Myanmar To The Bank
Financial inclusion is a topic of growing importance in countries such as Myanmar, where advances in tech are rapidly changing the dynamics in how people access financial products. As I wrote in 2016, fintech companies are capitalizing on Myanmar’s rapid development and increasing smartphone and internet penetration by offering digital financial products.
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Midiwo in another attempt to cut Safaricom’s stranglehold in telco market
Leading communications service provider Safaricom could be spilt into several smaller entities following a new push by Parliament to break the firm’s lead in the financial sector. National Assembly Deputy Minority Leader Jakoyo Midiwo (Gem) is seeking an amendment to the Kenya Information and Communications Act (1998) to have telecommunication companies separate their businesses along lines of service provision.
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Kenya denies mass mobile phone surveillance plan
Kenyan mobile phone firms have been ordered to install equipment to allow the telecommunications regulator to monitor activity on their networks. It means the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) would have the ability to listen to calls, read messages and view financial transactions.
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Kenyan Banks Have Joined Forces to Launch a Mobile Money Rival to M-Pesa
Nearly ten years after its launch, M-Pesa finally has what could be a major competitor in the multi-billion dollar mobile money transactions business.
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Microsoft Helps Build a Mosquito Trap With Brains
A smart trap for mosquitoes? A new high-tech version is promising to catch the bloodsuckers while letting friendlier insects escape — and even record the exact weather conditions when different species emerge to bite.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How to Stop Wasting Food … and Feed the World
Productivity isn't the only variable in the effort to increase the world's food supply; one-third of all food gets lost or wasted. Science for Society Techno Services claims its solar conduction dryer increases the shelf life of perishable produce by six to 12 months, and the firm even buys processed food from farmers and takes their dehydrated produce to market.
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- Agriculture, Technology