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Orange Launches Banking Play in Africa
Orange teamed with financial services company NSIA to launch mobile banking services into its first African market, Ivory Coast, with plans to expand into Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital finance
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Ghana Mobile Money Interoperability Transactions Rise 400 Percent in Six Months
The huge jump in the MMI volume could be attributed to increased awareness that funds can now be transferred across wallets of different telecommunications networks.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Microfinance Loans Could Spell Disaster in the Time of Coronavirus
Such loans have undoubtedly helped many people. Yet the capacity of microfinance to "make poverty history" has been repeatedly called into question by researchers.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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Zimbabwe Is Squeezing Its Top Mobile Money Platform for Users’ Data as It Clamps Down on the Media
The government has been at odds with the EcoCash for several months as its currency crisis and economic woes have spiraled out of its control. Last month Zimbabwe’s central bank slammed EcoCash for running, what it called, a Ponzi scheme.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Western Union Expands With TrueMoney in the Philippines
Five thousand TrueMoney locations across the Philippines to provide Western Union Money Transfer Services
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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Analysis: Will Coronavirus Pandemic Finally Push Emerging Economies Into Crisis?
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, emerging economies are suffering from an unprecedented slowdown in investment, trade and tourism. Economists fear that many countries will go off the rails.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- philanthropy
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Airtel Africa Connects With WorldRemit to Grow Its Money Transfer Business
Airtel Africa, a telecommunications and mobile money services company, is scaling up its operations with the help of WorldRemit, a digital money transfer service provider, to broaden its instant money transfer services across Africa.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Fintech Can Help South-East Asia’s MSMEs Recover From COVID-19
Fintech is emerging as a crucial means of support for MSMEs during the pandemic as well as an opportunity to stimulate their growth in ways that benefit wider society.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- Asia Pacific