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Viewpoint: How India Could Transform Africa
An Aadhaar-like digital ID system would boost growth as much as Chinese-built roads.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African financial technology startups move beyond payment services
If mobile money was the first phase in the development of digital finance in Africa, the next phase of digital financial services on the continent will focus on lending, insurance and wealth management
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa Roundup: Paga goes global and 4 startups raise $99M in VC
Paga looks to go head to head with regional and global payment players, such as PayPal, Alipay, and Safaricom according to Oviosu.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech, startups
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Ahead of Traditional Banking: How Africa Employs Blockchain For Financial Inclusion
On September 27, at the 73rd Session of the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA), Sierra Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio made an announcement where he declared that his country had set a new goal to create a national, blockchain-based credit bureau to “radically transform” the country’s financial inclusion landscape.
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Zimbabwe unveils new mobile money tax
Zimbabwe changed the way it taxes mobile money from a fixed fee to a percentage of the value of each transaction, as the state eyes a greater share of the proceeds from use of the burgeoning technology.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How a Ugandan prince and a crypto startup are planning an African revolution
Crypto and blockchain enthusiasts have been railing for years against the centralized world of banks, but many have been doing so from the privileged vantage point of developed countries. But what if blockchain technology turned out to be most revolutionary in emerging economies?
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Sierra Leone, United Nations to Develop Blockchain Digital ID System
The UN Capital Development Fund (UNDCF) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have entered into a partnership with Kiva, a technology nonprofit. Kiva will lend its institutional protocol of the same name to implement the “Credit Bureau Of The Future.”
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Safaricom, Telkom Integrate Mpesa and T-kash Services
The country's mobile money transfer platform is set for a new frontier after the announcement of an integration of Safaricom's and Telkom's services.
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- Finance, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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