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Rethinking Leadership: Kolade, Utomi, and Sanni to speak at 2nd NPL Leadership Dialogue.
PRESS RELEASE His Excellency, Dr Christopher Kolade, former High Commissioner of Nigeria to the United Kingdom, will lead a distinguished team of panelists ...
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AXA Mansard Leverages USSD to deepen Insurance and Pension penetration
Insurance and asset management firm, AXA Mansard, has advanced its digital awareness, leveraging technology to give insurance a facelift. The company says it ...
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Checkout.com, a global payments company with presence in MENA hits $5.5 billion valuation in new round
Checkout.com, a London-headquartered global payments company has tripled its valuation to $5.5 billion with the closing of its $150 million Series B, it ...
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SIA achieves blockchain interoperability goal with Quant Network
Banking users of SIA’s private blockchain infrastructure will be able to link up with other distributed ledgers following successful testing of interoperability via ...
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Apple launches web authentication using FIDO standard with Touch ID or Face ID biometrics in Safari
Apple has launched support for Touch ID and Face ID biometrics for web logins with Safari through the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) API to allow ...
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NCino, Cloud-Based Financial Services Firm, Aims To Raise $100 Million In IPO
Two months after the Covid-19 pandemic froze the IPO market, financial services software company NCino has filed for a public offering. The Wilmington, ...
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Standard Chartered Bank Kenya to close T-Mall branch in digital push
Standard Chartered Bank Kenya will shut down its T-Mall branch along Lang’ata Road in Nairobi in September as it continues to push customers to ...
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Brazil Central Bank ices Facebook’s WhatsApp payment service
The central bank of Brazil has suspended Facebook’s WhatsApp payment service within ten days of its roll out, citing competition issues in the ...
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Zopa granted full UK bank license as it gears up to launch savings account and credit card
Zopa, the 15-year-old peer-to-peer lending company, is announcing that it has been awarded its full U.K. bank licence, as it gears up to launch ...
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Mastercard to buy Finicity for open banking push
Mastercard is accelerating its open banking strategy through the $825 million acquisition of real-time financial data aggregation service Finicity. Salt Lake City-based Finicity ...