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Kenya’s merchants are warming up to a payment system born in a Seattle basement
Naming your company “money” takes some gall, but for the founders of Kopo Kopo, the gambit looks like it might pay off.
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Here’s What Bitcoin Gets Right
Bitcoin gives file-sharing a brilliant twist. In essence, it has created “a decentralized virtual currency that uses a peer-to-peer consensus system to confirm and verify transactions."
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Mobile money meets credit card in Ghana
MTN and Visa have partnered to offer customers a mobile payment solution which allows MTN Mobile Money users to make face-to-face and online transactions wherever Visa is accepted.
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Accion’s Venture Lab Closes Two New Investments
Impact-investing initiative announces close of investments in seed-stage companies that provide payments, health care and microinsurance products to clients at the base of the pyramid.
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The Digital Payments Future: Transforming the way the world addresses poverty
The expansion of digital payments could be poised to increase financial inclusion and change the way the world addresses poverty, says Ruth Goodwin-Groen, managing director of the Better Than Cash Alliance. In this post, she discusses the multiple benefits that can be gained as cash is replaced with digital payments.
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