Africa
Africa: Visa steps up to help African women fund managers grow their businesses
Global digital payments services provider Visa, has announced a grant for the African Women Impact Fund (AWIF), a collaboration between Standard Bank and ...
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South Africa: Unilever and Global Alliance Africa Announce Winner of Innovation Exchange Challenge
Global Alliance Africa, a project delivered by Innovate UK KTN and Unilever have today announced Sharon Rapetswa as the winner of their Innovation ...
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Nigeria: NCC Remitted N463b to Federation Account in 5 Years
In the past 5 years, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) transferred N463 billion to the Federal Government’s Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF). Prof. Umar Danbatta, Executive ...
Africa
Africa: Airtel Africa secures $125 million loan facility from Citibank
Airtel Africa has signed a $125 million revolving credit facility with Citi through its branch offices/subsidiaries in sub-Saharan Africa. This is contained in ...
Global
Global: Western Union Expands Integration With Visa Direct
Western Union is expanding its integration with Visa’s real-time money movement network Visa Direct to enable Western Union customers in the U.S. to send funds in ...
Ghana
Ghana: BoG to purchase gold from local companies from September 1
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has disclosed that the government would begin the purchase of gold from local gold mining companies from September 1, 2022. This ...
Africa
Africa: SEACOM and British Telecommunications (BT) team up to deliver enterprise communications services in Africa
Customers to benefit from BT’s world-class portfolio of services with local support and delivered over SEACOM’s infrastructure SEACOM (www.SEACOM.com) and BT today announced a strategic ...
Global
Global: China Intensifies Crackdown on Cryptocurrency
China’s internet watchdog said it had intensified a crackdown on illegal online information that may lead to speculation and fraud involving cryptocurrency. According ...
Global
Global: German digital bank Nuri files for insolvency
The seven-year-old fintech, which provides both fiat and crypto banking products, is working on a “long-term restructuring concept” Berlin-based digital bank Nuri filed ...
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Nigeria: GCR Affirms Sterling Bank SPV Bonds Rating, Outlook Stable
An emerging market ratings agency, GCR, has affirmed Sterling Investment Management SPV Plc.’s series 1 and 2 bonds’ ratings of BBB-(NG) with outlook ...
