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WhatsApp Pay finally gets greenlight from Brazil’s central bank
WhatsApp Pay has finally cleared the way with regulators to relaunch its services in Brazil, after it was blocked in June 2020. On ...
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Angola: Bna Launches Design Contest for Metallic Currency
The National Bank of Angola (BNA) has launched the design contest for a metallic coin commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Day of ...
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NIRSAL grows balance sheet to N140b, aggregates 3,000 cooperatives
The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL Plc), Mr. Aliyu Abdulhameed has said the ...
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US charges California man over Shopify data breach
A grand jury has indicted a California resident accused of stealing Shopify customer data on over a hundred merchants, TechCrunch has learned. The ...
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US retail trade groups ask to join $5.54bn Visa and Mastercard lawsuit
America’s two largest retail trade groups want to join a federal lawsuit filed more than 15 years ago against Mastercard and Visa. The ...
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OnePlus Pay plans to launch in India
The NFC-based OnePlus Pay mobile payments service has announced plans to launch in India. OnePlus followed the footsteps of Samsung and Google, and ...
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China Creates its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy
A thousand years ago, when money meant coins, China invented paper currency. Now the Chinese government is minting cash digitally, in a re-imagination ...
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JPMorgan sets $130K Bitcoin target as volatility drops while new regulations are brewing
Institutions have been entering the cryptocurrency space, as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are two of the latest large banks to join in ...
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SoftBank Mints New Unicorn in Indian Social Commerce App Meesho
Bangalore-based social commerce startup Meesho Inc. has raised $300 million in new funding led by SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund 2, valuing the ...
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Ribbit Capital leads $26.7M round for Brazilian fintech Cora
Cora, a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley ...