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Climate Finance Startup Pyrpose Opens Public Beta Enabling Consumers to Directly Support Climate Innovators
The Pyrpose platform allows consumers to understand their own carbon footprint and enables them to take action to tackle climate change.
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- Environment, Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Report: 95% of Fintech Apps Across Africa Immediately Expose Valuable, Exploitable Secrets
Approov, the end-to-end mobile security provider, released a report showing that 95 percent of the most popular African banking and financial services apps contain easy-to-extract secrets.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Time for a Course Correction with Climate Finance Action on All Fronts, Says WWF
In WWF's Climate Policy Manifesto, WWF proposes three practical principles to guide multilateral finance institutions to deliver for climate action.
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- Environment, Finance
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- Global
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IFC Invests $50 Million in New LeapFrog Fund to Bolster Health, Financial Services Businesses in Africa
The latest fund will focus on growing businesses in healthcare and financial services by helping companies adopt digital solutions and offer new products that can reach underserved segments of the population.
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- Environment, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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IFC and OCP Group Launch $800 Million Agri-Finance Platform to Build Sustainable Food Systems in Africa
The new platform will build and support sustainable food production and distribution systems in Africa, contributing to skills development, job creation, and food security.
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- Agriculture, Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Bancolombia and Terrapay Sign Contract to Strengthen Cross-Border Remittances Across Colombia
As part of their collective commitment to enhance financial inclusion, the two companies will enable seamless cross-border transfers.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: British International Investment Partners with Access Bank to Extend US $60 Million Trade Finance Facility Across Africa
Loan facility will help to ensure availability of key commodities across import-dependent economies and aims to stimulate African trade volumes by US$90 million as well as contribute to SDGs 8 and 9.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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South African Fintech Startup Stitch Announces $25 Million Series A Extension Round
The funding will be used by Stitch to continue building its end-to-end payments solutions.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- business development, MSMEs, scale