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Basel Committee Says It Will Study Crypto-Asset Rules
The Bank for International Settlements’ Basel Committee plans to hold a public consultation on the treatment of crypto-asset exposures. The committee said it ...
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Ethiopia fintech startup launches digital savings app eQub
eQub, the Ethiopia-based digital savings app, that allows users to “dip into their future savings’ ‘ has been launched by eQub Financial Technologies, ...
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CBN increases forex allocations to banks for SMEs, tuition fees, travellers
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced an increase in the amount of foreign exchange allocated to banks to meet the requests ...
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Bank of England Releases Discussion Paper on Stablecoins, CBDC
The Bank of England released a second discussion paper exploring new forms of digital money including stablecoins and a potential U.K. central bank ...
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MultiChoice enhances digital customer service with AI Chatbot
MultiChoice has enhanced its digital customer service with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot. The new product is dubbed TUMI “The Ultimate Master of ...
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HSBC opens API developer portal
HSBC has opened an API developer portal for firms to try out and integrate the bank’s suite of application programming interfaces. The initiative ...
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Bank of Ghana announces CBDC project
The Governor of the Bank of Ghana has announced that the central bank has been working on a central bank digital currency (CBDC). ...
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Orange in tri-party deal to advance digital Healthcare in Africa
Telecommunications operator, Orange and assurance firm AXA have teamed up with DabaDoc, a platform that digitalizes access to healthcare in Africa, in a ...
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G7 central bankers, finance ministers discuss stablecoins, central bank digital currencies
The Group of 7 (G7) has reiterated past comments about stablecoins and its opposition to those that don’t align with “relevant legal, regulatory, ...
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Liberia-J-MO Global Develops Software to Digitalize Universities Records
J-MO Global, a Liberian owned-social enterprise has developed affordable software to digitize high school and university students’ records (from paper to online) in ...