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How This Entrepreneur Wants To Connect Africa’s Economy To The World Using Diamonds
“If Africa manages to ride the crypto wave on time, then the opportunities are endless. They’ve already got an infrastructure self-designed to accommodate electronic money; now they just need to embrace decentralisation,” says Jeremy Dahan.
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- Entrepreneurship, Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MTN Introduces Africa’s ‘First’ AI Service For Mobile Money
The AI mobile money “assistant” enables customers to engage with MTN’s MoMo services, including payments, on various social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, and via SMS.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Big Challenge, Simple Solution: Could Bookkeeping Take India’s Small Businesses from Good to Great?
Small businesses tend to dream big and start small, but somewhere in the middle they do not grow. According to Vikas Kabra at Menterra, in his interactions with small merchants in India, he's noticed a surprisingly simple obstacle to their growth: a lack of bookkeeping. Out of hundreds of micro-merchants he has interacted with, barely any track their day-to-day business performance. Kabra discusses the problem, and calls for new tech-based solutions that could make bookkeeping fast, easy and approachable for small business owners.
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- Entrepreneurship, Finance
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Report: Mobile Money Transfers Remain Costly for the Poor
Kenya is among the top five African countries in mobile penetration, even though the cost of mobile transactions remain high for poor households and businesses.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Bitcoin in Africa – What Needs to Be Done to Encourage Adoption?
Bitcoin has the potential to revolutionize the African continent. Through Bitcoin, millions of unbanked Africans will have access to financial services.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Trulioo Teams With Refinitiv To Bring 5B Consumers Into The Financial Mainstream
Trulioo said it is teaming with Refinitiv — operator of the World-Check Risk Intelligence database — to promote global financial inclusion and fight fraud.
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- Finance, Technology
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MTN, Barclays to Broaden Financial Inclusion in Zambia
KASAKA is an interest-bearing savings account that is available to all MTN Mobile Money customers by Barclays Zambia via the JUMO platform and serves as the next step in widening the offering of financial services products to the unserved and underserved population in Zambia.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Five Things We’ve Learned Creating Data Standards for Inclusive Fintech
It’s no secret that capital is flowing into fintech. In 2018, global fintech investments exceeded USD $100 billion. Yet this investment is highly concentrated among a relatively small group of companies. Blaine Stephens and Chrissy Martin Meier of MIX share five insights from a new research initiative based on 40 interviews with fintechs, investors and ecosystem actors, designed to drive capital to inclusive fintechs in hopes of reaching 1.7 billion unbanked people around the world.
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- Finance, Investing, Technology
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