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A Leap Forward on Cross-Border Payments
When paying for coffee, we swipe, tap, wave, and soon may wink, a quick and painless exchange of coffee for money. But when ...
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Equal access to digital technologies: A key to resilient recovery
A global pandemic was far from Loretta Ibrahim’s mind when she signed up for the Click-On Kaduna digital skills program two years ago. ...
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FinTechs will take over banking
Mergers and acquisitions are a source of big and exciting news stories for business journalism. Looking at recent trends in Kenya, it is ...
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Tight rope to gender balance in financial inclusion
There are indications that the nation’s financial system may be forced to create special purpose vehicles to address the challenges of gender gap ...
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Central Bank Digital Currency – First Movers Have An Advantage In Open Economies
Many central banks are complacent about working in earnest on a central bank digital currency. Their attitude is that it is a risky ...
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SMEs must leverage technology for growth in new normal – John Obaro
With businesses around the world continuing to grapple with the realities of a disrupted landscape on account of the COVID-19 pandemic, they must ...
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Leveraging Digitized Social Welfare Programs to Deepen Female Financial Inclusion in Africa
The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that widespread adoption and use of digital payments and financial services could increase the GDP of all emerging ...
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The international dimension of a central bank digital currency
Globalisation and digitalisation – in particular, the emergence of innovative private payment solutions such as Facebook’s Libra project – have prompted central banks ...
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Tech Should Enable Change, Not Drive It
The world is changing in rapid, unprecedented ways, but one thing remains certain: as businesses look to embed lessons learned in recent months ...
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How close is the world to a cashless society
Cash is no longer king. The vision of a cashless society has emerged in recent years as alternative payment methods have become a ...