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Bank of Korea Seeking Technology to Develop Digital Currency
South Korea’s monetary policy regulator is taking steps to create its own digital coin. Bank of Korea is now looking for a technology ...
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Online Learning in Rwanda Facilitated through a Partnership between the VVOB, the Mastercard Foundation’s Leaders in Teaching Initiative, and the Enabel
With the support of the Mastercard Foundation, the Belgian Government (the Directorate-General for Development Cooperation-DGD), and VVOB – education for development, 3,000 laptops ...
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Liberia: CBL to Tackle Nonperforming Loan
Following the quarterly meeting of its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on 19 May 2021, the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) resolved to strengthen ...
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Sumitomo teams with Vodafone to win Ethiopia telecom project
Sumitomo Corp. will offer mobile services in Ethiopia as part of a consortium with British telecom provider Vodafone Group, becoming the first Japanese ...
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finAPI, MockBank allow new Open Banking testing options
After a successful pilot phase, Germany-based fintech finAPI has announced a close partnership with MockBank in Munich. Via MockBank, a dummy bank for ...
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Square and Plaid partner for ACH payments
Square and Plaid have partnered to bring a better ACH payments experience to ecommerce businesses in the US, according to the official press ...
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Nigeria: FirstBank Wins 3 Awards At Global Banking & Finance Awards
First Bank of Nigeria Limited, has been awarded the 2021 “Retail Banking CEO of the Year Nigeria”, “Most innovative Retail Banking App Nigeria” ...
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PayPal, raise Team To Help SMBs With Digital Transformation
PayPal is partnering with the Singapore Centre for Social Enterprises (raiSE) to help small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and social organizations transition to ...
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Axiata Digital Acquires Majority Stake in Indonesian P2P Lending Operator
Boost Holdings Sdn Bhd, Axiata Digital’s fintech holding arm announced today a 68.75% equity acquisition into Indonesia’s, PT Creative Mobile Adventure which operates ...
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Deutsche Bank sets implicit quota of 50% women for senior hires
Deutsche Bank will have to appoint women to about 50 per cent of vacant senior management positions to meet its new 2025 gender ...