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Grameen America, Citi and Mastercard Collaborate on Financial Inclusion for Female Entrepreneurs
Grameen America, a leading nonprofit microfinance organization, today announced a collaboration with Citi and Mastercard to introduce a number of financial technology solutions that will greatly enhance the organization’s ability to promote digital financial access and inclusion for more than 86,000 low-income minority women entrepreneurs across the United States.
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- North America
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- digital payments, fintech
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Fewer Than 50 Percent of Global Consumers Trust Businesses to Protect Their Financial and Payments Data
Consumers across the globe are more concerned with protecting their financial and payments information stored on a computer than they are with protecting this data when stored on a mobile wallet, according to new benchmark data, "Global Consumer Survey: Consumer Trust and Security Perceptions," from ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) and Aite Group. The global fraud study of more than 6,000 consumers across 20 countries revealed that only 43 percent of global consumers trust businesses, including restaurants and merchants, to protect their financial data -- while surprisingly, more than 80 percent of global consumers generally believe their mobile wallet data is secure.
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- data, digital payments, fintech
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Safaricom Rejects Regulator’s Surveillance Plan
Kenyan operator Safaricom has expressed its displeasure and hesitation over plans by the industry regulator to monitor mobile phone use, reports Citizen News. This comes after the Communications Authority (CA) announced it would be installing a monitoring device on all operators’ networks to keep an eye on mobile users who may be engaged in illegal activity and curb use of counterfeit phones in the country.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Visa Says Malaysia Is the Next Big Mobile Payments Market
Finding the next big growth market is a challenge for pretty much anybody, and mobile payments firms are no different.
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- South Asia
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Securitization portfolio of Indian microfinance industry plummets in Q3 due to note ban
The cash-intensive microfinance industry’s securitisation portfolio plummeted in the quarter ended December because of demonetisation, according to a report released on Thursday by Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN).
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Meet The App That’s Empowering The Women Of Myanmar To The Bank
Financial inclusion is a topic of growing importance in countries such as Myanmar, where advances in tech are rapidly changing the dynamics in how people access financial products. As I wrote in 2016, fintech companies are capitalizing on Myanmar’s rapid development and increasing smartphone and internet penetration by offering digital financial products.
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- South Asia
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Midiwo in another attempt to cut Safaricom’s stranglehold in telco market
Leading communications service provider Safaricom could be spilt into several smaller entities following a new push by Parliament to break the firm’s lead in the financial sector. National Assembly Deputy Minority Leader Jakoyo Midiwo (Gem) is seeking an amendment to the Kenya Information and Communications Act (1998) to have telecommunication companies separate their businesses along lines of service provision.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenyan Banks Have Joined Forces to Launch a Mobile Money Rival to M-Pesa
Nearly ten years after its launch, M-Pesa finally has what could be a major competitor in the multi-billion dollar mobile money transactions business.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech
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