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Small businesses in Kenya embrace mobile money payments
Small business operators in Kenya have for many years resisted mobile money payments as they preferred cash transactions.
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Vodacom Tanzania, CBA launch mobile money banking product
Vodacom Tanzania and Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) have launched a banking service named M-Pawa allowing Tanzanians to save and borrow money on their mobile phones.
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Why Government Should Help Poor People Get Bank Accounts
The former head of consumer affairs in New York City explains why helping the poor manage money more wisely would also help government manage their money more wisely.
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PRESS RELEASE: MIX Introduces Groundbreaking System For Analyzing Data On Financially Underserved Communities
First Platform for Coordinated Delivery of Responsible Financial Services to the Unbanked
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BitPay Raises $30m in Record-Breaking Bitcoin Funding Round
Atlanta-based bitcoin merchant processor BitPay has officially raised $30m in Series A funding in the largest-ever financing round for a bitcoin company.
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What is holding back the social entrepreneur
Ramasubbu Shankar, given his ordnance factories background, likes to cite the works of Lieutenant General Mikhail Kalashnikov, who developed the versatile AK-47 series of assault rifles. Just like the late Russian officer, Shankar, with just an engineering diploma, revels in tinkering. He doesn't possess strong academic credentials but betrays an intuitive hold on engineering from his decades of hands-on work in defence-related technologies.
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Citi starts Latin American mobile startup challenge
Citi is hosting a major new mobile innovation competition in Latin America. Called the Mobile Challenge LatAm 2014, the competition aims to bring together individuals and companies with innovative ideas to create applications for Citi’s Latin America mobile banking platform.
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Promoting Access to Finance in Nigeria
The introduction of the tiered Know-Your-Customer regime for potential bank customers will drive the country’s quest for improved access to finance, writes Obinna ChimaIn most developing countries, large population of low income earners has little access to financial services.
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