12/29/2020
From January to April this year, the value of funds transferred via Mobile Money grew by 450 per cent to reach Rwf40 billion, according to data from Rwanda Utilities Regulation Authority (RURA).
12/27/2020
It is laudable that many are on the digitisation journey.
12/27/2020
There has been hope through vaccine breakthroughs but that will depend on logistics, availability, and acceptance.
12/24/2020
The outcomes of the meeting will underpin the development of a business model and infrastructure for a low-cost retail digital payment scheme for MSMEs within COMESA region.
12/24/2020
In terms of international network interconnection, Nouakchott, Mauritania’s capital, serves as the landing point for the cable system of Africa Coast to Europe (ACE), further enhancing the international network interconnection between the two contin
12/23/2020
It has now raised a US$940,000 seed round from GOODsoil VC, an Africa-focused early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017, which will enable Zeepay to continue to scale.
12/22/2020
A pioneer in digital remittances, Xoom is a fast and secure way to send money, pay bills and reload phones for loved ones in over 160 countries globally.
12/22/2020
The subsequent panel discussions were centered on three key aspects namely cashless and digital payments, next-generation digital platform, and the relationship between FinTechs and banks.
12/22/2020
That the FSCA should become the responsible authority for the licensing of ‘services related to the buying and selling of crypto assets, and should develop specific conduct standards for these services.
12/22/2020
According to a research paper published by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the volume of digital payments is soaring and by 2020 is likely to approach $5 trillion worldwide.
12/21/2020
Significantly for Africa, this momentous event marked the start of discussions between Singapore’s central bank MAS and the Bank of Ghana, the Western Africa country’s central bank
12/18/2020
Right now it’s available in Kenya and Nigeria, which have a combined population of over a quarter of a billion people.
12/18/2020
Musoni specialises in helping organisations to digitalise their operations.
12/17/2020
Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda rank top for rapid digital growth, demand
This adds to other cables serving Kenya such as Seacom, East African Marine System (Teams), Eastern African Submarine Cable System (EASsy) and Lion2 systems.
12/17/2020
Synctera left stealth and emerged with news that it landed $12.4 million in seed funding, according to published reports.
12/17/2020
The four dimensions, according to the report, are scale, efficiency and productivity, data and analytics as well as talent hunt.
12/16/2020
The showcase is an initiative operating under the 2018 Sochi Accord with AFI’s membership that aims to participate in systemic dialogue-driven platforms and partnerships with fintech firms and technology providers that regulate policies.
12/16/2020
In South Africa, the government granted temporary emergency wireless spectrum to operators to allow them to add network capacity and implement upgrades to deal with the crisis and manage for the increased demand.
12/14/2020
Tech start-ups on the continent have fared well regardless of the pandemic-stricken year
12/11/2020
The technology expert further highlighted data breaches, data loss, access control, denial of service, insecure interfaces and poor API implementations, as some of the security challenges faced by organisations and government today in the use of cloud.