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Fintech Startup Finerio Secures $6.5 Million to Create Open Finance Ecosystem in Latin America
Shortly after the launch, Finerio was the fourth most downloaded fintech app that year, according to Grassi.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- data, financial inclusion, fintech, startups
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Press Release: Report: 95% of Fintech Apps Across Africa Immediately Expose Valuable, Exploitable Secrets
Approov, the end-to-end mobile security provider, released a report showing that 95 percent of the most popular African banking and financial services apps contain easy-to-extract secrets.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A $200 Billion Opportunity: What Payment Data Shows About the Rise of Africa’s Digital Economy
Africa’s digital economy is growing rapidly, and according to Agosta Liko at Pesapal, businesses, financial institutions and governments could add US $200 billion to the continent’s GDP in the next six years by supporting that growth. He shares payment data that highlights how, and where, digital transactions are happening in Africa — both online and in person — and explores what that means for the digital economy’s growth prospects in the region.
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- Finance, Technology
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Kenyan Legislative Committee Calls for Worldcoin Shutdown in the Country
The committee has recommended that the country develops “a comprehensive oversight framework and policies on virtual assets and virtual assets service providers in Kenya.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- cryptocurrency, data, regulations
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B2B SaaS Startup Data Sutram Raises $3 Million To Provide Location Based Insights To Banks
Data Sutram will use the fresh funds to expand to new markets, like Gulf countries and the Southeast Asian region.
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- Investing
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- Global
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- data, startups, venture capital
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Press Release: Cassava Technologies and Atlas AI Partner to Drive Digital Transformation in Africa
Through this partnership, Cassava will be able to deliver cutting-edge AI development capabilities custom-built for its enterprise customers, catering to the unique needs of businesses on the African continent.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Using AI to Transform Impact Measurement: Overcoming Language Barriers in Global Development Research
Language and cultural barriers often create a “listening divide” between the providers and beneficiaries of global development programs. According to Daryl Collins and Pravarakya Reddy Battula at Decodis, these barriers make it difficult to develop effective anti-poverty solutions — and artificial intelligence (AI) can play a key role in addressing them. They discuss how Decodis is using AI technology to facilitate survey data collection and analysis in its poverty alleviation research, and highlight the role human intelligence must still play in guiding these efforts.
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- Technology
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Press Release: Goodwell Supports Agricultural Innovation in West Africa with Complete Farmer Investment
CF’s insights give farmers an advantage from the start, introducing modern farming techniques and data-driven cultivation protocols to improve productivity and reduce post-harvest losses.
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- Agriculture, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- agtech, data, innovation, smallholder farmers