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Global: New York Senate votes for bitcoin mining moratorium
The New York State Senate has passed a bill establishing a moratorium on cryptocurrency mining using carbon-based power sources. The bill, which was ...
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Gambia: Insurance Association of Gambia Marks Insurance Awareness Week
Insurance Association of The Gambia (AIG) last Tuesday organised Insurance Awareness Week with a caravan walk from Youth monument to Jah Oil at ...
Egypt
Egypt: Egyptian B2B eCommerce Shipper ShipBlu Partners With Location Tech Provider What3words
Egyptian eCommerce shipping company ShipBlu is partnering with what3words, a location technology company, to help ensure shipping accuracy and efficiency, the companies announced in a ...
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Rwanda: Kagame Calls for Investment in Universal, Affordable Broadband
President Paul Kagame has said that all challenges that countries are facing can be handled faster, better, and more equitably by investing in ...
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Global: Russia’s Industrial Giant Rostec Announces Blockchain-Based Alternative to SWIFT
Rostec Employs Distributed Ledger Technology to Substitute SWIFT Russian state-owned corporation Rostec has built a platform using blockchain technologies to facilitate international settlements ...
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MoneyGram Announces New Partnership with Mobily Pay to Reach Millions of New Mobile Wallet Users in Saudi Arabia
A global leader in the evolution of digital P2P payments, and Mobily Pay, a pioneering mobile wallet powered by leading Saudi-based telecommunications and ...
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Microsoft Appoints New MD for Innovation Hub in Kenya
Microsoft African Development Centre (ADC) has announced Catherine Muraga as the new MD to lead 450 full-time employees working in areas such as ...
Ghana
Ghana: Telcos lose 300,000 mobile money subscribers in April
According to BoG data (May 2022), active mobile money subscribers saw a decline in April to 18.6 million from the 18.9 million recorded ...
Global
Global: Singapore banks take further step to tackle digital scammers
Singapore’s banks are stepping up their defences against scammers, rolling out a host of measures, including an emergency self-service kill switch for customers ...
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Visa and Kenya’s Safaricom launch virtual card to support global digital payments via M-Pesa
Global digital payments giant Visa and East Africa’s biggest telecom Safaricom, the operator of the M-Pesa mobile money product, have today launched a virtual card, ...
