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Overfunding – Neobank for Africans Eversend Surpasses €550,000 in Funding Through Seedrs Round
Eversend, a Neobank for African, has successfully secured its initial €550,000 equity crowdfunding target through its Seedrs campaign. The company is now offering 7.67% ...
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Standard Chartered Completes First Impact-Focused Subscription Finance Facility
Standard Chartered, a UK-based multinational banking and financial services company with $688 billion in assets, announced earlier this week it completed its first-ever ...
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Biometric access control systems launched from TBS, Morse Watchman and ApnaPay-Fingerprint Cards integration
TBS (Touchless Biometric Systems AG) has announced a pair of partnerships to deliver access control based on fingerprint and iris or 3D fingerprint recognition. ...
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Razer Fintech and Google Partners for Offline Payments
Razer Fintech has announced that Google Play Store consumers can make offline-to-online (O2O) payments through its Razer Cash solution. With Razer Cash, Google ...
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PayPal Rolls Out QR Codes to Facilitate Touch-Free Payments Amid COVID-19
In an era of social distancing, the digital payments giant is employing an additional tool to promote safe, in-person payments. PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) announced ...
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Bolt raises €100m to expand its product segments in Europe & Africa
Bolt, the Uber rival, has raised €100m (Ksh 11 billion) from London-based Naya Capital Management to boost its growth and development strategy. Bolt ...
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Safaricom’s Sanda Ojiambo appointed United Nations Global Compact Executive Director
Safaricom’s Sanda Ojiambo has been appointed as the Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) the worlds largest corporate sustainability initiative. Sanda ...
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Apple Pay is on pace to account for 10% of all global card transactions
Apple’s mobile wallet is gobbling up a growing chunk of card payments around the world. As the service grows, it’s becoming a greater ...
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Facebook takes on Zoom with its new video chat feature
Video-calling services have seen a sharp rise during the coronavirus pandemic with options like Zoom and its daily active users growing to 300 ...
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Jack Ma resigns from SoftBank Group’s board of directors
Jack Ma, co-founder of Alibaba Group, will be stepping down from SoftBank Group’s board after serving as a director for 13 years, as ...