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MTN Adds Vodacom Tanzania to its Cross Border Money Remittance Service
The partnership sees MTN Uganda adding Vodacom Tanzania to the list of telecom partners with whom customers can do mobile money transactions in the East African region.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Intra-African Remittance Market Set to Soar in 2020
The World Bank estimates that migrant workers within Africa send remittances in excess of $14 billion dollars each year, and in 2018 intra-African remittances represented 20% of global remittance flows according to Ecobank Group.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Remittances: Moving People Move Money
New innovations in digital technology are rapidly changing the global remittance landscape.
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Leveraging Blockchain for Good: A Q&A with Ken Weber, Head of Social Impact at Ripple
Blockchain has been sparking social innovation for years – and much of it has focused on payments. Ripple has been an innovator in this space since 2012, leveraging its blockchain-powered payment technology to enable international remittances through a network that now spans over 40 countries and six continents. In this Q&A, Ken Weber, Ripple’s Head of Social Impact discusses the company's multi-faceted efforts to "advance socially responsible and equitable uses of blockchain, cryptocurrency and related technologies.”
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- Finance, Technology
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Paymob, Tamweely Team up to Empower Female Entrepreneurs
The #AcceptTheChange campaign will initially aim to empower 250 female merchants (and their female clients) by availing e-payment solutions that will allow the selected entrepreneurs to further benefit from a booming digital economy in Egypt.
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- Finance, Technology
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- North Africa & Near East
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Facebook Libra’s Promise of Financial Inclusion ‘Doesn’t Sound Right,’ Says Mastercard CEO
The CEO of Mastercard has revealed why the company pulled out of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project, saying he “doesn’t understand how it works”.
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- Finance, Technology
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Press Release: WorldRemit Announces Global Remittance Partnership With Alipay
WorldRemit has announced a partnership with Alipay, the world's leading payment and lifestyle platform, enabling consumers to use the WorldRemit app or website for cross-border remittances to the Alipay app, bringing more convenient and inclusive transfer services to users around the world.
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African Fintech Firm Flutterwave Raises $35M, Partners With Worldpay
With the funding, Flutterwave will invest in technology and business development to grow market share in existing operating countries, CEO Olugbenga Agboola — aka GB — told TechCrunch.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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