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WorldRemit Is Working With Paga to Roll out International Digital Money Transfers in Nigeria
WorldRemit is expanding its service offering beyond bank transfer and airtime top-up to include mobile money service. The partnership with Paga will allow WorldRemit customers in over 50 countries to send money directly from their phones to 11 million Paga mobile money accounts in Nigeria.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Remittances, The Flywheel Of The Global Economy
In a world roiled by populist sentiments and anti-immigrant tendencies, the world’s well-trodden migration corridors, which follow remittance corridors one to one, are under strain.
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- Finance
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Remittances to developing world hit record in 2019: World Bank
Money transfers to poor and developing countries hit a fresh record in 2018 and should become their largest source of external financing this year, the World Bank said Monday.
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- Finance
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- remittances
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Regarding Facebook’s cryptocurrency
This is not Facebook’s first venture into virtual currencies, payments, or peer-to-peer payments via messenger app.
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- Finance, Technology
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Ripple Targets China’s $67 Billion Remittance Market, Plans to Open New Office in Shanghai
In January, Ripple launched the Blockchain Technology Research Scholarship Program (BRSP) in collaboration with Tsinghua University Institute for Fintech Research, a leading, fintech-focused academic institute in Beijing.
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- Finance
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- Asia Pacific
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WorldRemit set to boost Ethiopia’s remittance income
“We are proud to be a pioneering bank in modernizing Ethiopia’s payment systems. The various e-payment facilities deployed have enabled us to become the number one provider of technology-based banking services,“ CBE President Bacha Gina said.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How the African diaspora can help the continent achieve the SDGs
With a progressive awareness of the need for a sustainable African development agenda driven by Africans, the African diaspora could provide the other half of the equation needed to turn the SDGs from aspiration to concrete reality.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Telenor Microfinance partners with Alipay for Pakistan blockchain remittances
The service is provided by Telenor’s mobile banking service Easypaisa in Pakistan and another subsidiary Valyou in Malaysia. The aim is to make payments real-time, 24/7 and more efficient.
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- Finance, Telecommunications
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- South Asia