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Uber appoints Tope Akinwumi as Nigeria country manager
Uber has appointed Tope Akinwumi as its new Country Manager for Nigeria. Tope is an award-winning consultant with several years of professional experience ...
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TPG’s Rise Fund buys stake worth $200m in Airtel Africa’s mobile money business
Reports last month stated that Airtel Africa was looking to sell a minority stake in its mobile money business in a bid to ...
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Agency Banking-as-a-Service: The Growing Phenomenon in Africa’s Fintech Landscape
From Nigeria to Senegal to Kenya, African banks are increasingly shifting their retail services to third party networks. In June 2020, Nigeria’s MTN ...
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Former HSBC exec Maguire joins UK regtech Napier
London-based regtech firm, Napier, has hired former HSBC chief operating officer Andy Maguire as an advisory board member. Maguire joins fintech after spending ...
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Ivorien, Togolese change makers grace Glo-sponsored African Voices
Two creative minds who are inspiring other Africans across the continent will be guests on a fresh edition of Glo-sponsored CNN African Voices ...
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Bank of International Settlements Chief Says Cryptocurrencies Being Used to Evade Laws- Advocates for More Regulation
Agustin Carstens, the general manager at the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), has claimed that cryptocurrencies are “used to evade laws and should ...
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MediBuddy’s valuation crosses $165 Mn in latest funding tranche
The merger of DocsApp and MediBuddy in June 2020 appears to have triggered the interest of investors in the company as the combined ...
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Disrupt Africa partners Flutterwave, GreenHouse Capital to open-source flagship fintech report
Startup-focused news and research company Disrupt Africa has announced it is to make Finnovating for Africa 2021, the third edition of its deep-dive ...
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Luminor Bank selects FIS Ambit Focus for risk management
Estonia-based Luminor Bank has selected FIS and its Ambit Focus system to cover the lender’s risk operations in the Baltics. Founded in 2017, ...
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Fintech firm #dltledgers bags US$7m Series A funding round
SINGAPORE-BASED fintech firm #dltledgers has completed a Series A funding round, which closed with a total of US$7 million. The funding round was ...