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Pipit Global Enters 12 New African Markets with Cellulant
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Pipit Global Enters 12 New African Markets with Cellulant

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The partnership will see the companies providing both B2B and B2C payments services to existing and emergent financial institutions International cash payments platform Pipit Global and pan-African payments company Cellulant have extended their partnership agreement to now include eighteen countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The partnership will see the companies providing both B2B and B2C payments......
Panel with TransUnion and AWS Executives Explores How Disruptive Work Flows Unlock Banking Opportunities
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Panel with TransUnion and AWS Executives Explores How Disruptive Work Flows Unlock Banking Opportunities

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TransUnion’s Financial Services Summit concluded with a keynote panel discussion about the future of banking As financial institutions prepare for a more normal lending environment, a recent panel of TransUnion and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) executives posit that this industry should avoid a return to normalcy by investing in disrupting......
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African Development Bank’s New Economic Governance Strategy Advocates Bold Public Finance Reforms

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The strategy proposes bold reforms in the management of public finances to eliminate revenue ‘leakages’ and ensure an efficient, productive, and transparent use of scarce resources The African Development Bank on Friday launched its Strategy for Economic Governance in Africa (SEGA), aimed at fostering transparent and accountable governments and institutions to......
Strike Drives Bitcoin Forward as El Salvador Becomes World’s First Country to Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender
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Strike Drives Bitcoin Forward as El Salvador Becomes World’s First Country to Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender

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Bitcoin Breaks New Ground for Human Freedom and Empowers Financial Inclusivity Via the Lightning Network Strike, the world’s leading digital wallet built on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, welcomes legislation announced to make El Salvador the world’s first sovereign nation to adopt bitcoin as legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar. This move......
Covid-19 Spending Habits – Has The Pandemic Caused An Increase In Acquirer Fraud?
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Covid-19 Spending Habits – Has The Pandemic Caused An Increase In Acquirer Fraud?

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As the Covid-19 virus started to spread around the globe and a sharp economic downturn became apparent in many sectors, acquirers, and the financial institutions who maintain merchant accounts in order to accept card payments, faced a decline in the number of transactions being processed through their systems, and therefore......
Finance in Common Summit Spring Meeting: Public Development Banks Call for New Financing for Africa’s Recovery Post-COVID-19
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Finance in Common Summit Spring Meeting: Public Development Banks Call for New Financing for Africa’s Recovery Post-COVID-19

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Participants in the meeting, hosted by the African Development Bank, brainstormed on joint actions that could help boost a strong and inclusive recovery in Africa A global coalition of public development banks today emphasized the urgency of immediate resources for Africa’s recovery post-Covid 19. Together, they committed to deepening cooperation......
New Fintech Delivery Model Transforming Financial Services Through Mutualized Services, Highlighted in Whitepaper from Broadridge
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New Fintech Delivery Model Transforming Financial Services Through Mutualized Services, Highlighted in Whitepaper from Broadridge

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To address innovation, digitization and resiliency, firms are modernizing and better optimizing operations through flexible architecture, cloud-based applications and data-driven insights As the financial services industry confronts the new realities of a post-pandemic era, many firms are beginning to shift toward mutualization models for their technology and operations, according to......
African Development Bank President Adesina calls for African Financial Stabilization Mechanism
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African Development Bank President Adesina calls for African Financial Stabilization Mechanism

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Africa’s collective debt now stands at 70% of the continent’s gross domestic product (GDP) African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina, recipient of the 2017 World Food Prize, and Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz, recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, have called for a quick and comprehensive plan for......
ETHA Lend Closes A $1.6 Million Funding Round – Creating A Novel Yield Optimizer for The Masses
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LA-Based SoLo Funds Raises $10 Million to Offer an Alternative to Predatory Payday Lenders

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SoLo Funds wants to replace payday lenders with a community-based, market-driven model for individual lending, and now has $10 million to expand its business in the U.S. Read More: 2021 Financial Plans to be Driven by New Administration, Remote Workforce & Supporting Tech Payday lenders offer high-interest, short-term loans to borrowers......
Speech: ECB's Fabio Panetta on a Digital Euro's Impact on the Financial System
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Speech: ECB’s Fabio Panetta on a Digital Euro’s Impact on the Financial System

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Throughout history, innovations in money have challenged and altered the structure of the financial system. Time and time again, innovations have given rise to debates about the risks they pose and the rewards they bring, as well as the role of central banks in building confidence in money. Paper banknotes......
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