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Viewpoint: How Bitcoin Improves Financial Access and Inclusion
Bitcoin is, for many, the first opportunity to store wealth in a safe and secure manner, without outside manipulation, while facilitating financial inclusion.
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- Global
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Opportunity or Threat: Are Healthy Partnerships Possible Between Digital Financial Services and Microfinance Institutions in Bangladesh?
Microfinance institutions in Bangladesh reach over 32 million customers with a loan portfolio of around US $9 billion. According to Jakirul Islam at Bank Asia, partnerships with digital financial services (DFS) could benefit both microfinance and DFS providers and their customers – but these partnerships are not functioning at their full potential. He shares four key benefits that are driving interest in these collaborations, and explores their inherent challenges – and some partnership models that could address them.
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- Finance, Technology
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Hubtel Partners Visa for Seamless Payments of Its E-commerce Platform
Hubtel, an indigenous eCommerce & SMS messaging company, has entered into a partnership with Visa, to expand access to seamless payments on its eCommerce platform.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tala and Visa Partnership Seeks to Ignite Stablecoin Use in Emerging Markets
Call it an ignition play for cryptocurrency — specifically, making crypto spendable, not just a store of value — across borders with the unbanked populations of the world, billions of consumers among them, as the match.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Somalia Issues First License to Mobile Money Service
Somali officials on Saturday issued the country's first license to a mobile money service, bringing regulation to the widely used digital payment process for the first time.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: What’s Ahead? Southeast Asia Startup and Venture Capital Ecosystems 2021
Venture Capitalists (VCs) believe in capitalizing on disruptive innovation and developing technologies to displace older technologies, create new markets, and prepare the world for unexpected situations (e.g., global pandemics)–even if not all the startups and industries that VCs invest in may do so.
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- Investing, Technology
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- South Asia
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Fintech Points the Way to Full Financial Inclusion for Cambodians
With more cellphones existing in the Kingdom than citizens and one of the youngest populations in the world, Cambodia’s mobile financial industry may be poised to bring the Kingdom’s deficit in financial inclusion to an end. This potential tipping point could mean the end to Cambodia’s status as one of the most underbanked nations in the world, according to experts.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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Malaysia’s Mobile Money, Bangladesh’s Bkash Team With Ripple on eWallet Remittances
Blockchain-based global payments provider Ripple announced it has entered into an arrangement under which Malaysian mobile wallet provider Mobile Money, and bKash, a provider of mobile financial services to more than 45 million people in Bangladesh, will conduct transactions through the RippleNet network.
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