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Viewpoint: Ghana’s Banks May Find Themselves Undercut by MTN’s Mobile Money
MTN Ghana is targeting 20m customers on its mobile money service in the next three years, from 13m in 2018.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech
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Rich Families Pour Wealth Into $31 Trillion ESG Opportunity
Demographic shifts are encouraging a surge of activity designed around investments to combat climate change, address inequality or simply to encourage companies to operate in a more sustainable fashion.
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- Investing
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Report: Solar Boosting Economic Prospects for Rural East Africans
New report from GOGLA, the global association for the off-grid solar energy industry, shows an overwhelming majority (94%) of people living with off-grid solar home systems reporting improvements to their quality of life
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ericsson and MTN launch Mobile Money open API platform in Ghana
Ericsson and MTN have extended their mobile money partnership with the launch of an open API platform in Ghana.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Arohan in Talks With Sovereign Wealth Funds, PEs to Raise $200M
Arohan plans to complete the fundraise in the next few months, and is in discussions with sovereign wealth funds.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Global Renewable Energy Initiative Aims to Bring a Billion People in From the Dark
Worldwide commission aims to end energy poverty in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia by driving investment in new technology.
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- Energy
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Bono Is Really Into Drones Now (But It’s Good)
The U2 frontman has just joined the board of Zipline, a medical delivery drone company that’s already saving lives in Ghana and Rwanda.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Impact Tech Venture OpenSC Raises $4 Million in Seed Funding
OpenSC, an impact venture developed in partnership by the World Wide Fund for Nature Australia (WWF-Australia) and BCG Digital Ventures (BCGDV), the global corporate venture, investment, and incubation arm of Boston Consulting Group, today announced that OpenSC has raised $4 million in seed funding from strategic impact investors.
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- Environment, Investing
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- South Asia
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- supply chains
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