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Facebook Opens Second Africa Office in Lagos
As part of its continued commitment and ongoing investment in Africa, Facebook, today announced it will be opening an office in Lagos, Nigeria ...
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SoftBank Teams up With Reliance for TikTok India
SoftBank Group Corp is reportedly looking for partnerships with local players in India, planning to buy TikTok India. The bidders’ group in talks ...
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Klarna becomes fourth largest private fintech firm in the world
New $650m investment means the Swedish ‘buy now pay later’ company is valued at $10.6bn The value of “buy-now pay-later” finance group Klarna ...
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BIS Seeking Blockchain Expert to Lead Digital Currency Research
The Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the international body nicknamed the “central bank for central banks,” is on the lookout for a blockchain ...
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Over 200,000 Businesses Join Safaricom’s Lipa Na M-PESA Service
Lipa Na M-PESA Service Grows By 1 Million More Customers Kenya’s leading telco Safaricom has announced that the number of businesses on its ...
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Klarna becomes Europe’s biggest fintech unicorn at over $10 billion valuation after mega-round
Klarna is now officially Europe’s highest valued private fintech company. The Swedish online payments firm says it has raised $650 million in an ...
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Thai Central Bank’s New Blockchain-Enabled Bond Infrastructure Passes Test With $1
The Thai central bank, Bank of Thailand, has launched a blockchain-enabled platform for the issuance of government saving bonds. According to a press ...
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FIS opens Access Worldpay gateway
FIS (NYSE: FIS), a leader in merchant and financial services technology, today announced its Access Worldpay gateway, a single point of integration for ...
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Mastercard And Partners Form Supply Chain Digitization Alliance
To digitize supply chains for merchants and wholesalers, Mastercard, along with Finastra, SGeBIZ and N-Frnds, has created an alliance with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), according ...
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Lloyds Bank still a sell according to Goldman Sachs
Lloyds Banking Group PLC is still on Goldman Sachs’ sell list even though the US investment bank sees some recent headwinds easing a ...