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Mastercard Strive India Launches to Help Small Businesses Go Digital
Payments giant Mastercard has launched the Mastercard Strive India programme, which aims to help 500,000 small businesses in India go digital by 2025.
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- Agriculture, Finance, Technology
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- Global
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Chapa Partners with Telegram to Revolutionize Digital Payments in Ethiopia
This partnership brings a new level of ease and efficiency to the world of e-commerce, benefiting both businesses and consumers.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Flutterwave Launches ‘Tuition’ to Enable Nigerians, African Students Abroad to Pay School Fees With Local Currency
The new product will leverage Flutterwave’s world-class payments technology solution to make school fee payments more convenient, secure, and reliable.
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- Education, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, edtech
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Press Release: IFC Partners with Orange Bank Africa to Increase Digital Lending for Small Businesses in West Africa
According to the World Bank Group's MSME finance gap report, 63 percent of MSMEs in Senegal and 57 percent in Côte d'Ivoire experience constraints when accessing a loan or line of credit.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: India’s Digital Transformation Could Be a Game-Changer for Economic Development
India’s micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) sector faces a significant credit gap — between $250 billion and $300 billion.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: Groundbreaking Fingo Africa App to Bring Financial Inclusion to Africa’s Youth
The new app, powered by Ecobank, is set to revolutionize financial inclusion for young people in Kenya and across Africa.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mastercard Launches New Data and Services Hub in Malaysia to Serve the Asia Pacific Region
The new office in Kuala Lumpur will serve clients across the Asia Pacific region with a suite of offerings beyond transactions.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Fintech Firm Paysend Enters Partnership to Bring Money Transfers to 60 Million Hispanic Americans
Paysend, the global card-to-card payments platform, has announced a new multi-year partnership with the Spanish-language content and media company, TelevisaUnivision.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Latin America
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