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South Africa : Discovery Bank targets 700,000 customers by 2024
Discovery Ltd, Africa’s second-biggest insurer by market value, is expanding its footprint into five countries on the continent as it adapts to meet ...
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South Africa: Standard Bank Boosts its Shari’ah Banking with AWS Technology
On Thursday, Standard Bank South Africa, which offers a range of Shari’ah-compliant banking solutions, announced the introduction of a dedicated call centre line ...
South Africa
South Africa: SA’s Engen opens applications for $67k startup pitching competition
South African petroleum company Engen has opened applications for its Pitch & Polish pitching competition, which will see 16 entrepreneurs compete for a ...
Africa
Africa: Interswitch Group Strongly Pushing the Boundaries of Payments Across Africa
Payment systems support financial stability by reducing systemic and settlement risks, acting as firewall to prevent contagion of losses, facilitating proper liquidity management, ...
Ethopia
Ethiopia: Ethiopia’s Government Postpones Ethio Telecom Privatisation Process
The government of Ethiopia has announced today that it will be postponing the ongoing privatisation process of the state-owned Ethio Telecom, and did ...
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Nigeria: Access Bank Plc records profit of N160 billion in full-year 2021
Nigerian lender, Access Bank Plc, has released its 2021 Full-year financial result, which revealed a profit of N160 billion in 2021. This reflects ...
Ghana
Ghana: eCedi usage will be free of charges – Bank of Ghana
The Bank of Ghana has disclosed that the eCedi, the Central Bank Digital Currency which it intends to issue will be free of ...
Africa
Africa: YC and Future Africa backed Nigerian startup, Simplifyd launches ZeroData app to provide affordable internet to users in Africa [BI Africa Exclusive]
A significant uniqueness of ZeroData is the availability of fine-grained policies, which help organisations define who should have data-free access to their apps, ...
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Nigeria: Sterling Bank launches Omni X platform, targets corporate clients, others
Sterling Bank Plc. has launched an integrated investment and liquidity management platform, Omni X, in its bid to improve banking experience for non-bank ...
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Nigeria: Banks refunded over N95bn to customers in 2021 – CBN
The Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday said cumulative refund by banks to customers as at December ending 2021 stood at N95.2 billion. ...