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Tanzania: Tanzania slashes mobile money tax by 43%
The Tanzanian government has reduced the tax on mobile money transactions by 43%. The measure was announced last week by Mwigulu Nchemba, Minister of ...
Global
Global: Innovative solution for seniors wins JCT orthodox women’s hackathon
The 45-hour hackathon brought 140 religious women together to develop potentially lifesaving technologies, which included a flying defibrillator and technology to detect babies ...
Global
Global: Shopify Enters B2B eCommerce Market to Compete with Amazon
Shopify will be focusing on business-to-business (B2B) commerce, introducing tools to compete with Amazon, a Financial Times (FT) report said Wednesday (June 22). ...
Global
Global: Russia To Replace the Swift System With Its Own Blockchain Platform
Russia’s government organization has developed its own international payment blockchain platform to replace the Swift system. The Rostec Group is a cult of ...
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Uganda: Interbank Lending Gets Major Boost As Tradeclear Platform Covers Risk
Fifteen Ugandan banks have signed onto the TradeClear platform to ease and boost interbank trade within the country. TradeClear is an interbank trading ...
Global
Global: Starling Bank reaches three million current account milestone
Starling Bank has passed the three million current account milestone, which includes more than 460,000 small business accounts. The figures come five years ...
Global
Global: Amazon Announces New CEO for its Worldwide Stores
Amazon, a giant technology company announced Doug Herrington as the new CEO of its worldwide retail stores. Herrington will be replacing Dave Clark ...
Africa
Africa: MTN has fastest network, Vodacom best quality, latest SA metrics reveal
Mobile operator MTN came out in first position in three out of the five metrics tested and was statistically tied for highest Excellent ...
Ghana
Ghana: Uber Ghana celebrates 6 years of innovative mobility
Ride-hailing company Uber, is celebrating 6 years in Ghana and its contribution to local economic growth and empowerment. The company is now helping ...
Africa
Africa: Interswitch to Use Compass Plus’ TranzAxis to Ease Payments Across Africa
Interswitch, Africa’s leading integrated payments and digital commerce company, and Compass Plus Technologies, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software, ...
