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Ant Group to share data with State firms
Late last year, Ant Group, would have made history in China, an IPO which would see Jack Ma’s Ant raise $34.5 billion at ...
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Swiss National Bank Has No Plans for a Digital Currency: Report
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is not planning to introduce a central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to a report in the Swiss weekly business ...
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AfDB to spend additional $2bn on AfCFTA related infrastructure
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has said it expects to spend an additional two billion dollars on African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) ...
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EBA report on request to pay shows interesting results
The Euro Banking Association (EBA) has released a report on the corporate perspective on request to pay. The report is based on the ...
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South African crypto traders ‘vanish with $3.6 billion Bitcoin’
Founders of Africrypt, a cryptocurrency trading platform, Ameer and Raees Cajee, have reportedly vanished with Bitcoin worth $3.6 billion from their cryptocurrency investment ...
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Court grants Ripple access to SEC’s internal trading policies on XRP
A judge has granted Ripple’s request to force the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to reveal its non-public policies regarding whether agency employees ...
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Bank of Mozambique suspends Standard Bank from Interbank Foreign Exchange Market
The Bank of Mozambique announced this week its decision to suspend Standard Bank from the Interbank Foreign Exchange Market (MCI). “The institutions participating ...
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Nigeria: Airtel and AXA Mansard launches Mobile Health Insurance
Airtel has partnered with AXA Mansard to launch Mobile Health Insurance via USSD. The partnership is expected to deepen access, participation and enrolment ...
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Amazon launches fintech lab in Dubai
The payment arm of Amazon-Amazon Payment Services has opened a fintech lab in Dubai’s DIFC Innovation Hub. The Lab’s goal is to work ...
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FSCA considering declaring crypto assets a financial product
THE Finance Services Conduct Authority (FSCA) is considering declaring crypto assets a financial product, which will give it jurisdiction over these transactions following ...