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Brazil’s Unicorn FinTech EBANX Pilots Digital Wallet
Founded in 2012, EBANX originally processed payments for Brazilian clients of global websites and recently expanded to offer services to Brazilian eCommerce platforms.
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- Latin America
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Facebook Plans Own Mobile Money Wallet Based on New Libra Currency
Facebook has released more details of its planned currency Libra. The first product will be a digital wallet designed to make it easy to save, spend and transfer money over the internet. The wallet will be available in Messenger, WhatsApp and as a standalone app, with an expected launch in 2020, the company said.
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Vietnam strides towards cashless society with e-wallets boom
Vietnam is on the cusp of a mobile payment revolution, and the key factor to raising adoption is whether the e-wallets could become ubiquitous locally.
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- Asia Pacific
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MTN’s successful IPO in Ghana shows the far-reaching potential of mobile money in Africa
MTN successfully pulled off a first: a historic initial public offering done mainly through mobile money.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Standard Chartered Partners To Launch Mobile Wallet In Uganda
The partnership with MTN will expand the service in Africa, making it the sixth country in Africa where Straight2Bank is available.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MTN Ghana makes history with first mobile money-based IPO
The IPO is the largest ever undertaken by the country and if successful could set the stage for other companies to test the market.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MTN expands financial services offering with Ecobank deal
MTN is moving further into the financial services space, announcing a partnership with major Pan-African banking group Ecobank.
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- Finance
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Press release: TRANSFAST Partners With Bangladesh BRAC Bank and bKash Mobile Wallet for Global Money Transfers
Bangladeshi expatriates around the world can now send cross-border remittances to bKash Mobile Wallet users at any of TRANSFAST'S 200,000 payout locations in more than 120 countries. The funds can be either cashed out via bKash agent locations in Bangladesh, or can be utilized to make person to person fund transfers, top-up mobile airtime, pay bills, and shop in-store. TRANSFAST is the first money transfer company to partner with bKash to provide this service in Bangladesh.
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- South Asia
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