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MasterCard Sees Opportunity with Nigerian E-ID Cards
There’s a lot of untapped potential in the Nigerian commerce market — which is growing — and MasterCard has discovered a marketing niche with the country’s national high-tech e-ID card pilot project.
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Rwanda: Phone Charging Made Simple
Rwanda's Henri Nyakarundi founded African Renewable Energy Distributor (ARED) to give renewable energy solutions to the public and private sectors in his home country Rwanda after failing to find a place to charge his phone from. However, he never imagined that his idea would ever cross the border.
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Johns Hopkins Team Wins Award for Improved Suit to Fight Ebola
For health-care workers taking care of Ebola patients in West Africa, one of the biggest logistical problems has been the "moon suits" they must wear to protect against being infected by the deadly virus. The suits are hot. Taking them off is a meticulous, multistep process that can leave no room for error.
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American Express Serve Announces Research Pilot to Encourage Consumer Saving
American Express AXP, -0.91% today announced that it is kicking off a research pilot to study consumer savings behaviors using the Serve software platform. This research pilot can help identify new ways to promote saving and explore whether certain behavioral interventions are effective in increasing consumer savings. This program will also help inform research at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the U.S. government agency charged with making financial markets work for American consumers, to better understand how to promote saving among consumers.
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PRESS RELEASE: OPIC Board of Directors Approves New Financing Commitments
The Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) today held a quarterly meeting considering new projects for approval.
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Impact Investments Show Strong Returns, Survey Says
An overwhelming majority of "impact investments" met or exceeded financial and social-benefit goals, according to a survey released Thursday.
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Vodacom has big M-Pesa plans in South Africa
Vodacom aims to push the envelope with its revamped M-Pesa in 2015, a year in which it hopes it will emerge as the most disruptive player in the local mobile money space.
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Econet jumps back into insurance. What’s their play here?
It’s no longer called EcoLife, but Econet is back in the insurance game.
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