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A Welcome Boost for the Creator Economy as Newsflare Closes Series B Investment Round
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A Welcome Boost for the Creator Economy as Newsflare Closes Series B Investment Round

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Newsflare, one of the world’s leading licensing platforms and marketplaces for user-generated video (UGV), has closed a Series B accelerator funding round to fuel faster growth. The £5m investment, from two of the UK’s leading TMT venture funds, will be used to increase Newsflare’s global footprint, grow its talented team,......
Hepsiburada and Intel Join Forces To Help SMEs Go Digital
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Hepsiburada and Intel Join Forces To Help SMEs Go Digital

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Hepsiburada and Intel have co-developed DigitalSME, an SME support program to help SMEs develop e-commerce technology infrastructure and strengthen their businesses in Turkey Hepsiburada, a leading Turkish e-commerce platform, and Intel ,one of the world’s leading technology companies, announced the launch of DigitalSME, a program providing support to small and......
Visa Study: Small Businesses Optimistic, Looking to Digital Payments for Growth in New Year
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Visa Study: Small Businesses Optimistic, Looking to Digital Payments for Growth in New Year

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The 6th edition of Visa’s Global Back to Business study finds that 73% of small businesses surveyed1 said accepting new forms of digital payments is fundamental to growth in 2022 As Visa continues toward its goal of digitally-enabling 50 million small and micro businesses (SMBs), a new research study released – the......
Wanxiang Blockchain Launches Vena Consortium to Build One-Stop Digitalization Solutions for Enterprises
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Wanxiang Blockchain Launches Vena Consortium to Build One-Stop Digitalization Solutions for Enterprises

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Wanxiang Blockchain marked the start of a promising 2022 with its next-generation blockchain technology platform “Vena Consortium”. Built upon PlatONE, a consortium blockchain featuring privacy computing, and Wanxiang Blockchain’s experience in creating blockchain solutions for industrial internet, digital assets, digital cities and many other scenarios, Vena Consortium has been designed......
Cion Digital Raises $12 Million Seed Funding Round
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Cion Digital Raises $12 Million Seed Funding Round

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Funding round will accelerate Blockchain Orchestration Platform delivery of crypto-backed financing and payment solutions Cion Digital, developers of the first enterprise SaaS blockchain orchestration platform, announced it has closed a $12 million Seed Capital raise. “It has always been a passion of mine to be able to make financial services......
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African Development Fund Grants $1.5 Million to Smart Africa Alliance to Strengthen the Policy Environment for Digital Trade and E-commerce Across Africa

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Smart Africa will consult public and private sector actors to develop an online training program that will directly benefit 600 stakeholders The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a $1.5 million grant to assess policy gaps in the digital trade and e-commerce ecosystems in 10......
Tassat Group Execute the First Real-Time Digital Payment Between Two Banks Using Blockchain Technology
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Tassat Group Execute the First Real-Time Digital Payment Between Two Banks Using Blockchain Technology

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Real-Time Digital Interbank Network Unveiled Tassat Group Inc. unveiled the nation’s first real-time Digital Interbank Network and the technology infrastructure behind it with a live demonstration attended by more than 100 banks from around the country. Held at the Times Center in New York today, the event was the inaugural......
Visa Study Finds Digital Payments Are the Preferred Way in the US to Send Money Abroad
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Visa Study Finds Digital Payments Are the Preferred Way in the US to Send Money Abroad

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Nearly one-quarter of surveyed U.S. adults have sent money to family and friends internationally Consumers are increasingly turning to digital payments to send money to family and friends around the world to help out financially or celebrate special occasions, according to a new Visa survey. Almost a quarter (23%) of......
African Development Bank Approves $170M for Investment in Startups
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African Development Bank Board Approves $170 Million for Investment in Nigeria’s Digital and Creative Start-UPS

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The investment in Digital and Creative Enterprises Program (i-DICE) is a Federal Government of Nigeria initiative promoting investment in digital and creative industries The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved a loan of $170 million to finance a digital and creative enterprises program in Nigeria. The......
CompoSecure Partners with Oxygen
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CompoSecure Partners with Oxygen, a Leading Digital Financial Platform

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The new Oxygen Elements debit card offers four unique levels of rewards for consumers CompoSecure Holdings, L.L.C, a leading provider of premium financial payment cards and an emergent cryptocurrency storage and security solution provider, announced that it has partnered with Oxygen, a leading US neobank catering to the 21st century economy,......
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