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Zimbabwe Launches National Financial Inclusion Strategy
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe through various stakeholders is aiming to increase the level of access to formal financial services within the country to 90 percent from 69 percent while improving the proportion of financially included small business to 80 percent by 2020.
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The Future of Mobile Wallets in India
Digital payment service providers are competing fiercely, offering attractive offers and unrealistic discounts. Is this the making of another bubble?
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile, Agency Banking Driving Bulk of Transactions and Loans for Kenyan Banks
Kenyan banks are reaping big from innovative mobile products and strategic partnerships that are fueling acquisition of new customers and revenue streams even as technology renders some jobs redundant.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenyans Abroad Shun High Interests Rates With Diaspora-Founded Bank
Kenyans in the diaspora are shunning high interest rates and remittance costs charged by local banks with the launch of a microfinance institution.
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Low-Cost TB Test for HIV Patients Can Save Thousands of Lives
A low-cost urine test that detects tuberculosis in people living with HIV can save thousands of lives, many of them in sub-Saharan Africa, a Cape Town University researcher said on Wednesday.
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PWC to Liquidate Troubled Microfinance Company DKM’s Assets to Pay Back Depositors in Ghana
PriceWaterhouse Coopers is to liquidate the assets of troubled microfinance company, DKM, to raise money to payback depositors whose monies were locked up with the company, the Governor of the Bank of Ghana said Tuesday.
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70% of Nigerians Have Not Heard of Mobile Money
Although the advent of mobile money in Nigeria is more than two years and over 21 operators in the sector have been licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria, more than 70 per cent of Nigerians say they have not heard of mobile money.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African Health Ministers Sign Declaration to Increase Use of Vaccines
Health ministers from 20 African countries last week signed a declaration to increase the use of vaccines in preventing of infectious diseases in a bid to close immunisation gap by 2020.
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