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Airtel Africa Scoops Another $200 Million for Mobile Money Business
Airtel Mobile Commerce is working to own and operate the mobile money businesses across all of Airtel Africa’s 14 operating countries.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mastercard and Billetera Partner to Drive Digital Financial Inclusion in Democratic Republic of Congo
Mastercard has announced partnering with Billetera, a leading digital payments technology company headquartered in Kenya, to provide unbanked and financially excluded residents in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tala and Visa Partnership Seeks to Ignite Stablecoin Use in Emerging Markets
Call it an ignition play for cryptocurrency — specifically, making crypto spendable, not just a store of value — across borders with the unbanked populations of the world, billions of consumers among them, as the match.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Keeping an Eye on Fintech in the Philippines
According to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Financial Inclusion Survey, only 29 percent of all adults were banked as of 2019. This means 51.2 million Filipinos remain unbanked.
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- Finance, Technology
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- South Asia
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Bitcoin Too Volatile To Aid Financial Inclusion, Says Mastercard CEO
The inherent volatility of Bitcoin makes it ill-fitted for the needs of unbanked people, argued Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga.
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- Finance, Technology
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Visa Partners With Zeepay; Drives Financial Inclusion Across Ghana & Africa
ZEEPAY has partnered with Visa to allow Africans in the diaspora to directly send money onto Visa debit and prepaid cards in Ghana.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Lana Has Launched in Latin America To Be the One-Stop Shop for Gig Workers’ Financial Needs
Lana, a new startup based in Madrid, is looking to be the next big thing in Latin American fintech.
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- Finance, Technology
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Bank Mitras in India: How Agents of Financial Inclusion Were Neglected During the Pandemic
The bank mitras continue to work without defined working provisions and under inadequate remuneration, observed the AIBEA in a letter addressed to the bankers’ body.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- Asia Pacific
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