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Fintech Decacorn Nubank Raises $400M Led by TCV
Nubank announced a few weeks ago that it will start to expand its offerings to Mexico and Argentina. Over the past year, the company has expanded its product offerings to include personal loans and cash withdrawal options as part of its digital savings accounts.
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- Finance
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- Latin America
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Facebook’s Libra May Target Latin America First
“Latin America is going to be on of the easiest markets for Facebook to test Libra,” said Anouk Pinchetti, a digital currency consultant, adding that Facebook may choose a Latin American country as its first expansion market. “Western Union is viewed as too costly for remittances and there is great proximity to the U.S. and Silicon Valley.”
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- Finance
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- Latin America
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Melinda Gates Pushes G7 to Close Digital Gender Gap in Africa
G7 finance ministers meeting in France are to endorse a paper from the Gates Foundation saying there is a serious risk that digital technology and mobile banking will bypass millions of women in Africa, leaving them disempowered for a generation.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Singapore’s CredoLab to Power Digital Financial Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
CredoLab’s alternative credit scoring solution comes at a critical juncture in the region’s focus on financial inclusion.
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- Finance
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- Asia Pacific
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Why Payment Fraud is a Critical Threat to Financial Inclusion – And How Mojaloop is Making it Worse
The next key step in financial inclusion is payment interoperability, in which digital finance providers’ networks are connected to enable transactions between users of different systems. But though interoperability has major potential for the sector, it also comes with huge risks, says Clear Purchase founder Nick Brown, an expert in payment infrastructure. He explains why a massive payment fraud attack could do substantial and long-lasting damage to the financial inclusion movement, and how an open-source platform like the Gates Foundation's Mojaloop increases the risk.
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- Finance, Technology
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Two Companies Approved To Run South Sudan’s First Mobile Money Platform, m-Gurush
Theventure is a joint partnership between South Sudan’s Trinity Technologies Limited, a local tech firm, and Zain Telcoms South Sudan.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bank of Ghana Asks Mobile Money Operators to Reduce the High Cost of Services
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has urged mobile money operators to reduce the cost involved in the transaction of business on the mobile money platform.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Opera Founded Startup OPay Raises $50m for Mobile Finance in Nigeria
Opera founded OPay in 2018 on the popularity of its internet search engine. Opera’s web-browser has ranked No. 2 in usage in Africa, after Chrome, the last four years.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa