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Goldman Sachs leads $45 million round in AutoRefi
Goldman Sachs has led a $45 million funding round in auto finance specialist MotoRefi. MotoRefi works directly with credit unions to enable consumers ...
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Visa invests in LoginID to accelerate Fido-certified SCA
Visa has invested in LoginID, the startup behind a series of APIs and SDKs that make it easy for firms to integrate Fido-certified ...
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Paxful Launches Tool Allowing Businesses to Receive Payment in Bitcoin
Peer-to-peer digital asset marketplace Paxful has launched an e-commerce tool to allow businesses worldwide to receive bitcoin (BTC, +1.67%) payments. Paxful Pay exchanges ...
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Binance to empower blockchain engineers in Nigeria, others
Binance announced this week that its first Binance Smart Chain Hackathon for Africa, tagged ‘Decentralised Africa’, with a prize pool of over $30,000. ...
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Arm’s length policy of Payment Service Banks in Nigeria The need for clarity
In furtherance to enhance access to basic financial services for underserved and unbanked segments of the society, the Central Bank of Nigeria created ...
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Tech-Driven Agriculture Services to Boost Incomes of 50,000 Farmers in Nigeria
Building on its work to boost food security in Nigeria through technology-driven agricultural services, Thrive Agric has launched an ambitious 1-year project to ...
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FITC partners RegTech Africa on TECHNOVATE CONFERENCE
FITC, the world class innovation-led, and technology driven knowledge institute has partnered with RegTech Africa on its maiden virtual TechNovate Conference, an innovative ...
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Facebook’s latest Community Standard Enforcement Report shows progress in preventing harmful content
Facebook is also launching a Transparency Centre to provide a single destination for information about its integrity efforts Facebook (www.Facebook.com) ...
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Mitek Acquires ID R&D to Lead Fight Against Biometric Identity Fraud
Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK), a global leader in digital identity verification, today announced that it has acquired ID R&D, an award-winning provider of artificial ...
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Mono has completed a $2M seed round, to revamp core platform and launch new products and features
Nigeria API fintech Mono showed lots of promise when it made it to Y Combinator’s W21 startup accelerator program. Founded in 2020, the ...