Global
Global: SkyBridge Capital Leads Series A Funding Round for Leading Metaverse Company Vulcan Forged
Vulcan Forged, (“the Company”) a leading blockchain game studio and decentralized application (“dApp”) incubator, announced today that it has secured Series A funding ...
Global
Global: Visa Tap-to-Pay Hits 1 Billion Transit Transactions as Systems Get Moving Again
As people slowly reacquaint themselves with public transportation after more than two years of cratering usage during the COVID-19 outbreak, we find a ...
Kenya
Kenya: Mara Launches Free Online Academy to Advance Digital Financial Literacy
Pan-African digital finance ecosystem, Mara has launched a free educational online platform that will steer blockchain and digital finance literacy. The platform also ...
News
Tanzania: Tanzania Scraps Levies Imposed On Electronic Transactions
The Government has scrapped the levies imposed on electronic money transfer from bank to mobile and within the same financial institution, Minister of ...
News
Nigeria: CBN to Hike Interest Rate to 14.50%, Cordros Forecasts
As global central bankers continue to combat rising headline inflation rate movements with monetary policy tightening, a slew of investment banking firms believe ...
Ghana
Ghana: Ghana Economy Expands 4.8% in Q2-2022
Ghana’s gross domestic product (GDP) rose 4.8% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2022, driven by growth in the fishing, manufacturing and education ...
News
Nigeria: NCC Deploys 84 IT Projects to Support Persons with Disabilities
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has deployed 84 assistive Information Technology projects at different locations in Nigeria to support people with special needs while supporting policies that ...
Global
Global: Reserve Bank of India seeks a ‘phased implementation’ of the digital rupee
On Tuesday, September 20, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Shaktikanta Das, said that the country’s central bank is dedicated ...
News
SA: Nedbank secures village in Ubuntuland, making it the first local bank to enter the metaverse
As part of its strategy to leverage new technology and go beyond conventional banking, Nedbank has partnered with Africarare, Africa’s first metaverse, and ...
News
Nigeria: Access Bank boosts profit with N52.8 billion from foreign exchange gain
Access Bank Nigeria Plc, one of the largest lenders has continued to reap huge foreign exchange gains with yet another N52.836 billion to ...
