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Looking beyond the hype at fintech in Southeast Asia
From the offices of Venture Capital firms to the financial services districts, you may not be able to escape the promising whispers of fintech startups. Take a structural shift to mobile, an ever decreasing cost of computing power, the availability of lots of (big!) data, mix in one part artificial intelligence, one part distributed ledgers and we have the perfect recipe for how technology will change the face of banking and insurance forever.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- fintech, venture capital
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Why Zimbabwe Blocked MTN And Safaricom From Entering Local Market
The Zimbabwean government deliberately blocked the entry of South Africa’s MTN Group and Kenya’s Safaricom into the nation’s telecoms space in order to shield local operators from bigger international firms and promote their organic growth.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Facebook lures Africa with free internet – but what is the hidden cost?
Facebook has signed up almost half the countries in Africa – a combined population of 635 million – to its free internet service in a controversial move to corner the market in one of the world’s biggest mobile data growth regions.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Can Any Old Phone Become a Spirometer?
Technology that was first rolled out in 2012 as a smartphone app has now been adapted so that virtually any telephone connection—cell phone, landline, or internet call—can be used to analyze a person’s pulmonary function in the clinic.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Report: Growth of FinTech in Africa Set to Challenge Financial Providers
The FinTech sector in Africa is poised for exponential and rapid growth that will challenge existing financial services providers, despite the fact that it is in the early stages of adoption relative to the rest of the world. According to recent Frost & Sullivan analysis, the FinTech industry in Africa may experience a similar disruption seen in Australia, a country with financial services development comparable to South Africa.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech
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Jack Ma takes on murky China charities in first blockchain foray
Chinese billionaire Jack Ma wants to pry the lid off China's opaque charities. Ant Financial, the affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd he controls, is using the technology behind bitcoin to record transactions and improve the accountability of the country's philanthropic organisations.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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- blockchain, fintech, philanthropy
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S. Korea to launch telemedicine project in Rwanda
The South Korean government, KT Corp. and Severance Hospital will team up to launch a telemedicine project in Rwanda, Africa, marking the first step of Korea’s global telemedicine project supported by government, business and hospital, an idea that has long been championed by the country’s President Park Geun-hye.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The rise and rise of Mexican fintech
The financial services space ticks all the right boxes entrepreneurs look for when launching a company: hard to solve problems, meaningful impact, transformational technologies, clear business models and a solid financing environment.
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- Technology
- Region
- Latin America
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- fintech, venture capital
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