Africa
Liquid & Orange Trade Networks Through New Telecoms Partnership
A new strategic partnership has been announced in Africa’s telecom space as South African Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Liquid) and Orange, a French telecom ...
Innovation
Nigeria: Agri-fintech startup Tingo teams up with Visa
Nigeria’s Agri-fintech startup Tingo has teamed up with Visa to deepen its financial service offerings as it plans to be a significant player ...
Innovation
Nigeria: PenCom extends online verification, enrolment exercise for retirees, others
The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has announced the extension of the online verification and enrollment exercise for 2021 retirees, and prospective retirees of ...
Global
BofA launches Account Validation service
Bank of America has rolled out a fraud prevention service for corporate and public sector clients making payments in the US. Prior to ...
Africa
Standard Bank Group Selects Flutterwave to Drive Digital Transformation Efforts Across Africa
Standard Bank customers in eight African countries to enjoy enhanced digital payments experience in partnership with Flutterwave Standard Bank, Africa’s largest bank by ...
Global
Oracle and Orange Announce Joint Intention to Strengthen Digital Infrastructure in West Africa
Collaboration aims to accelerate cloud adoption in one of the continent’s fastest-growing regions Oracle and Orange (www.Orange.com) today announced that they have signed ...
Global
Mastercard to introduce special cards for the visually impaired people
US-based payment processing company Mastercard has launched an accessible card standard designed to help partially sighted and blind people, called the Touch Card. As most ...
Innovation
Nigeria: Remita Partners with MTN’s YDFS to deepen financial inclusion
Remita, a leading Africa-focused fintech brand, has partnered with Yello Digital Financial Services (YDFS), the Fintech subsidiary of MTN Nigeria and the operator of MoMo ...
Global
Mastercard is preparing its infrastructure for the deployment of CBDCs
Mastercard is preparing its infrastructure for the deployment of CBDCs. This was disclosed by Michael Miebach, CEO of Mastercard, during an earnings call with ...
Global
Mastercard Announces Plan to Allow Merchants to Accept Bitcoin
Mastercard is going to a partnership with Bakkt, a platform by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to enable merchants to receive BTC for services ...