During a recent Bloomberg interview, Ari Sarker, Co President at MasterCard Asia Pacific was asked about Libra and its recent decision to pull out of the project...
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November 11 to November 18, 2019 Fintech Africa Person-of-the-Week is a weekly recognition of a person, male or female, who is impacting the Fintech ecosystem across...
Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Tuesday it was launching Facebook Pay, a unified payment service through which users across its platforms including WhatsApp and Instagram...
Nearly two thirds of organisations around the world that accept card payments are putting customers at risk by failing to ensure full PCI DSS compliance, according to a...
Interswitch, the Lagos based Pan-African payment processor has finally attained unicorn status, as the firm has confirmed that Visa International has acquired a minority...
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Zenith Bank Plc has emerged as the best digital bank in Nigeria in the 2019 Consumer Digital Banking Satisfaction Index Report released by Agusto and...
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BNP Paribas is acquiring a slice of wealth management technology provider Allfunds, in a deal which the bank believes will create market-leading wealthtech software. BNP...
Addressing regulatory uncertainty will be necessary before banks look to join Facebook’s Libra Association, according to David Marcus, head of Calibra. “We’ve been asked...
Luno, the global cryptocurrency platform, has announced that customers can now buy Ethereum on its exchange using Nigerian Naira. Previously, it was only possible to buy...
Mark Zuckerberg says that a global payments system like Libra “needs to get built” and that the US risks ceding financial leadership to China if it does not...
Big Tech companies such as Google, Apple and Microsoft have yet to encroach on the investment funds industry, but new research from distribution network Calastone...
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Politicians still don’t understand the technology and are much more comfortable regulating it than working out how to use it to improve public services, says Tony...
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy of Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) has ordered for the termination of cash payments in the...
ADEWUMI OJO Digital transformation has the potential to radically reshape the world around us, from healthcare and government to banking and retail. But nowhere is the...
South African insurtech startup Pineapple has won the single biggest prize at the annual VentureClash challenge in the United States (US), securing US$1.5 million from a...
The Deputy Governor, Financial System Stability, Central Bank of Nigeria, Mrs Aishah Ahmad, has charged financial technology companies (fintechs) to contribute in the...
Lendtech platform operators in the country have urged the federal government through the office of the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, to disburse TraderMoni loans through...
ADEWUMI OJO The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele has explained the reason the apex bank kicked against MTN Nigeria’s planned move to start charging...
OLU OJO PHILIPS Mr Godwin Emefiele, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria [CBN] in his maiden press briefing after his reappointment as Governor of the CBN has...
After a dip in the financial inclusion headline figure in 2016, the biannual financial inclusion survey number shows a marginal increase from 58.4 per cent in 2016 to 63...
China is further opening up its financial sectors to foreign investors by loosening regulatory requirements and lifting business restrictions on foreign banks and...