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The big tech and innovation trends in Africa for 2018
Fintech companies across the continent providing key services in loans, savings and payment, have been increasingly rewarded with investment and significant nods.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- e-commerce, fintech, startups
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Turning Saris into Stainless Steel: How the Companies of the Future Can Learn from Business Models of the Past
In India in the 1970s, tens of thousands of itinerant street vendors carried stainless steel kitchenware products from door to door, bartering them for saris and other old clothes in a complex, multi-tiered supply chain. According to Prashant Yadav at Harvard Medical School, these vendors’ business model – like others from past decades – holds valuable lessons for modern enterprises working in challenging markets. He shares some of these insights – and encourages others to do likewise – in this fascinating article.
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Report: Digital Will Influence $4 Trillion in Retail Purchases in Emerging Markets by 2022
Half of the population in emerging markets worldwide is now connected to the internet, the report says—a stunning increase from 2010, when fewer than a quarter of those in emerging markets were online. In addition, by 2022, nearly 900 million more emerging-market consumers will be online, versus just 80 million new internet users in developed markets.
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- Press release
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- Technology
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- e-commerce
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Press release: Airfox Partners with Brazilian Retail Giant on Mobile Blockchain Financial Services
Airfox offers a mobile digital wallet that is already accessible in the Brazilian market nationwide and will eventually also be available in other emerging markets. This new collaboration allows Airfox to extend its mobile digital wallet to Via Varejo's national customer base and drive mainstream adoption.
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- Finance
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- Latin America
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Amazon India’s Fintech Play
The ecommerce behemoth is making strategic investments to build an ecosystem of financial products and services to take on Flipkart and Paytm.
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- Finance, Technology
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- South Asia
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Flipkart Seeking NBFC License; Soon to Venture into Fintech Space
Flipkart is in news again as the e-commerce giant is all set to step its foot in the fintech space with the company now planning to offer credit and insurance products to its customers and sellers.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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How Vietnam’s Fintech Market Could Reach Nearly $8 Billion By 2020
The Asia-Pacific region saw nearly $15 billion in fintech investments between January 2016 and February 2017 alone. Needless to say, the opportunity in fintech is real--and Vietnam is getting in on it.
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- Finance
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- Asia Pacific
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Entrepreneurs capitalize on rural handicraft e-commerce
Born in a Dong village in Zaima town, Guizhou Province, Yang opened a shop on retail website Taobao to sell handmade ethnic cloth made by fellow villagers.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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- e-commerce