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WorldRemit Is Working With Paga to Roll out International Digital Money Transfers in Nigeria
WorldRemit is expanding its service offering beyond bank transfer and airtime top-up to include mobile money service. The partnership with Paga will allow WorldRemit customers in over 50 countries to send money directly from their phones to 11 million Paga mobile money accounts in Nigeria.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kiva’s Co-Founder Is Joining This Leo DiCaprio-Backed Bank
A wave of tech-centric “neo-banks” have popped up in recent years, usually promising a smoother customer experience marked by lower fees and branch-less, online-oriented services. And some have sought to go even further—differentiating themselves from the competition via a focus on on socially and environmentally conscious values, investments and product offerings.
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- North America
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Viewpoint: We Need to Talk About Credit
In the past five years, we have seen a lot of change in how credit markets are developing, not least because of the rapid growth in digital credit associated with mobile financial services. But how much do we actually know about digital credit? And how does it relate to other types of credit in the markets we care about? How is this new availability of credit contributing to the ability of low-income people to seize opportunities and manage risks?
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- Finance
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Safaricom CEO to Leave as Row Erupts Over Successor: Sources
Bob Collymore has helped to build Safaricom into East Africa’s most profitable company, thanks to the popular mobile money transfer service M-Pesa and a growing customer base.
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- Finance, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The New Malaria Vaccine Program for African Children Is Promising but Still Quite Limited
The RTS,S vaccine does not provide lifelong protection against malaria, only four in 10 children within a specific age group will benefit.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Has Impact Investing Reached a Fork in the Road?
Impact investing still operates at the margins of our financial system. The vast majority of the system continues as it has always done: channeling capital to projects that are oblivious to or actively harm environmental and social progress, that fuel inequities and cavalier business behavior. That system isn't working.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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How China Is Looking Beyond Borders
The “Belt and Road Initiative” was announced by the Chinese government in 2013 as a global trade strategy based on the ancient Silk Road trading route.
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- Finance
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- Asia Pacific
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It’s Not Just Millennials Who Have Socially Responsible Investing in Their Game Plan: Study
While younger investors have a reputation for investing with environmental and social causes in mind, interest in these investments actually spans generations, research shows.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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