News
SA: MTN Announces Appointment of New Executive for Group Legal
MTN Group has announced the appointment of Fatima Laher as Group Executive: Group Legal, effective 1 October 2022. Fatima re-joins MTN from Samsung ...
Global
Global: Finastra & Visa Partner to Launch Global BaaS Offering
Finastra and Visa have announced a Banking as a Service (BaaS) collaboration to co-develop new functionality on its Payments Hub solutions and implement Visa Direct – ...
Global
Global: Commvault Appoints Data Protection Expert Alan Atkinson as Chief Partner Officer
Commvault, a global enterprise leader in data management across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments, has announced that data protection industry veteran Alan Atkinson ...
Ghana
Ghana: MTN controls 72% of data market share, Vodafone 13%, AirtelTigo 13%
With an estimated population of 31,439,251, the total subscriptions of data in Ghana as of the end of June 2022 was 23,723,582, the ...
Global
Global: Binance Hires Compliance Chief from Crypto Rival Kraken
Steven Christie, who oversaw global compliance at Kraken for more than four years, has joined cryptocurrency exchange Binance as its senior vice president ...
News
Zimbabwe: IMF says gold coins missed chance to build Zimbabwe reserves
The gold coins that have been in circulation in Zimbabwe for almost three months are a missed chance to build the nation’s gold ...
Global
Global: Optus, Australia’s second largest telco, says customer data exposed in data breach
Australia telecoms giant Optus said current and former customer data was accessed following a cyberattack on its systems. Optus said in a press ...
News
Nigeria: Digital Bank FairMoney Partners Oradian to Accelerate Market Growth
FairMoney, a credit-led mobile banking platform for emerging markets in Africa and Asia, has partnered with Oradian, a cloud-based core banking system, to ...
Africa
Africa: Africa Must Trade Without Dollar to Grow Cross-Border Business, says Cellulant CEO
Cross-border payments in Africa will grow bigger, better, and faster without the US Dollar in the middle, the Chief Executive Officer of the ...
Kenya
Kenya: Rate hikes in dollar market worry CBK
Difficulties in accessing the dollar debt market is hurting emerging markets like Kenya and could create ‘a potential accident’, the Central Bank of ...
