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Press release: Kora Gateway launches, bringing improved financial services to emerging markets
Kora, the largest blockchain project out of Africa, has launched a new wallet that aims to provide access to low cost financial services to populations that have historically had little to no access to them.
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- Finance
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Fintech’s Good Fortune: Eight Things Africa Can Learn from China’s Success
Earlier this year the FiDA Partnership took 26 leaders from Africa’s digital finance industry to China to learn about what's driving the unprecedented Fintech boom there. Jessica Osborn, a senior manager at Caribou Digital, writes that the immersive and intense week was designed to help participants experience Chinese digital life firsthand on the streets of Beijing, in the mom-and-pop stores of Hangzhou and the on factory floors of Guangdong. Osborn shares eight key lessons for anyone looking to succeed in emerging market fintech.
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Kenya’s competition watchdog clears dominant operator Safaricom
Competition Authority finds no sign that Safaricom, which has a 67% market share, has abused its dominance.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New Blockchain Mobile Wallet Launched in Africa
Kora, the largest blockchain project out of Africa, has launched a new wallet that aims to provide access to low cost financial services to populations that have historically had little to no access to them.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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JP Morgan, Gates, Dell give $9.5 million for India’s Financial Inclusion Lab
American philanthropic investors are now coming in to further push India’s digitisation drive and financial inclusion.
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Press release: Visa and Branch form micro-credit partnership
The loans will provide merchants with funds to grow their business through supplemental stock, infrastructure investment, and other key operational needs. Loans will be disbursed directly to the merchants’ phones.
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Press release: MicroVest Announces Investment in Pakistan’s Kashf Foundation
The investment furthers MicroVest’s commitment to make financial inclusion a reality in
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Colombia’s New President Ivan Duque And Financial Inclusion
With 54 percent of the vote's worth of support under his belt against Gustavo Petro, Duque promised to transform the country's economic model and tackle inequality, as reported in Reuters.
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- Latin America
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