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Zapper exits Masterpass Interoperability
Following last week’s FNB announcement of the rollout of their QR-enabled Speedpoint terminals, some confusion as to the status of the current and ...
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Saudi Arabia Witnesses Largest Bank Merger in Middle East, North Africa
Saudi Arabia’s National Commercial Bank said it will purchase rival lender Samba Financial Group in a deal valued at $14.8 billion, creating what ...
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Ebang aims to set up digital financial platform in New Zealand
Ebang, a major Chinese Bitcoin (BTC) mining equipment supplier, is planning to acquire a financial firm in New Zealand to set up a ...
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Stripe acquires Nigeria’s Paystack for $200M+ to expand into the African continent
When Stripe announced earlier this year that it had picked up another $600 million in funding, it said one big reason for the ...
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Ethio Telecom Receives Greenlight to Launch Mobile Money Services
Ethio telecom is set to launch mobile money services following authorisation from the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE). Ethio Telecom and NBE have ...
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Swift to move into low-value consumer payments market
Interbank messaging network Swift is to move into the low-value remittance market, providing member banks with the means to make instanteous transactions across ...
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Vodacom Tanzania PLC finally opens its M-Pesa API’s to developers
Vodacom Tanzania has opened its M-Pesa Application Programing interface (API) in a move set to entice local and international developers into creating innovative ...
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Estonian central bank to conduct digital currency research
The Estonian central bank, Eesti Pank, announced the launch of a research program to study how to build a digital currency infrastructure. According ...
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PayPal enters UK’s buy now, pay later market
PayPal is to take on the likes of Klarna and Australia’s AfterPay with the launch of a buy now, pay later shopping service ...
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America’s biggest bank, JPMorgan Chase outperforms in Q3
JPMorgan Chase, America’s biggest bank just reported its third-quarter earnings before the opening bell Tuesday. JPMorgan Chase posted a third-quarter profit of $9.44 ...