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American Express Backs Mexican Fintech Startup Clip as Emerging Markets Warm to Financial Startups
Investment in new financial technologies is exploding globally, and as traditional players look for opportunities they’re increasingly turning their attention to technology companies in emerging markets.
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- Latin America
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Safaricom Unveils ‘Mobile Wallets’ Initiative for Healthcare
A new mobile money platform has been launched to help donors disburse money directly to beneficiaries and track its usage.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nucleus Launches Offline Digital Cash Solution in India
Adding another tool to push the Indian economy from cash to digital, Bombay Stock Exchange-listed banking and financial solutions company Nucleus Software Exports Ltd on Wednesday launched an offline digital cash solution technology, PaySe.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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In India, IBM’s Watson Will Aid Cancer Care Where Doctors Are Scarce
IBM IBM +0.00% and a large hospital system in India have partnered to diagnose and treat cancer care in a country of 1.2 billion residents who often cannot access oncologists, leaving their diseases undetected and untreated.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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BlackBerry Mobile Payments Coming To Africa
Blackberry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY), the Canadian global mobile communications leader, has announced its intentions to extend its mobile payment option to Africa, starting with Nigeria, then South Africa.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments
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Zimbabwe’s Econet Kick-Starts m-Commerce Platform
Econet Wireless has launched an e-commerce platform, OWNAI aimed at helping small scale and medium companies to market their products and services to mobile subscribers on its network.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenyan High Court Hears BitPesa Case Against Safaricom
A lawsuit filed by bitcoin payments startup BitPesa and its partner against mobile money giant Safaricom was heard in the Kenyan High Court on Tuesday.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile-izing Savings with Defaults in Afghanistan
The number of people with phones is far higher than the number of people who have easy access to traditional bank branches, especially among the rural poor. Until now, however, no one has tested whether mobile banking can facilitate default savings programs. This is exactly what a team led by Innovations for Poverty Action set out to do in Afghanistan.
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- Impact Assessment, Technology