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Gates Foundation, Wellcome, Mastercard launch $125M COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is teaming up with Wellcome and Mastercard to form the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, a $125 million effort to help find potential treatments for the coronavirus epidemic and future threats.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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Visa Partners With Paga on Payments and Fintech for Africa and Abroad
The collaboration reflects a strategy of the American financial services giant to expand in Africa working with the continent’s top startups.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech, startups
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A New Mobile-Money Firm in Bangladesh Is Benefiting From Special Treatment
Since mobile money took off in Bangladesh nearly a decade ago, bKash has dominated the industry.
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- Finance
- Region
- South Asia
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- fintech
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Mobile Banking App Empower Finance Just Closed a $20 Million Series A Round
Another afternoon, another round of funding for a mobile banking app. This time, it’s Empower Finance, a San Francisco-based company that’s headed up by former Sequoia Capital partner Warren Hogarth and which just closed on $20 million in Series A funding from Icon Ventures and Defy Ventures.
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- Finance
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If Given $100, Half of Young Africans Would Use It to Start a Business, Survey Says
Social entrepreneurship was also a popular theme among young people in Africa, according to the survey, with 63% saying that their idea for a business or social enterprise would benefit those living in their community.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Online Remittances: Closing The Gender Gap
According to the U.N., remittance sending behaviour of migrant women often involves a higher financial cost as they tend to send smaller amounts of their income more frequently and are subjected to paying more in transactions fees.
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- Finance
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Viewpoint: Nigeria Needs to Close the Financial Inclusion Gap for Women Smallholder Farmers
Women smallholder farmers in Nigeria are involved in all aspects of agriculture. Yet, because they are women, they are held back by unequal access to resources that would help them become more successful.
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- Agriculture, Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: We Must Invest Differently to Support Women and Girls
Many of the structural issues at the root of gender inequality are locked in and magnified by our current financial system.
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- Investing
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