Ukheshe Processes First Live Instant Payments in MEA with Mastercard Track Instant Pay

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The first businesses in the Middle East and Africa region have started to experience the seamless ease of Mastercard’s Track Instant Pay solution, in partnership with leading pan-African fintech enablement partner, Ukheshe Technologies. Track Instant Pay is a next-generation virtual card solution that uses machine learning and straight-through processing to enable instant payment of supplier

Economic Recovery Relies on Empowering Women Entrepreneurs, According to Mastercard Study

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Fifth-annual Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (MIWE) findings demonstrate the resilience of women entrepreneurs across 65 economies despite disproportionate challenges during Covid-19 pandemic Six economies in MENA have recorded progress in their MIWE scores, although work remains on women’s representation in business ownership and leadership, as well as female financial inclusion Mastercard has revealed the fifth-annual

United Bank for Africa Partners with Cellulant to Expand its Reach in 19 Markets Across Africa

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Partnership between United Bank for Africa and Cellulant extends payments services for merchants and consumers across the African continent Africa’s global bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, and leading Pan-African Payments Company Cellulant (Cellulant.io) have announced a partnership that will extend payment services for merchants and consumers across 19 key African countries in which

Clickatell Announces Chat 2 Pay Integration with Salesforce Commerce Cloud

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Clickatell customers can now benefit by using Salesforce Order Management to send consumers a faster, more secure and convenient pay-by-link request via SMS and WhatsApp Clickatell, a CPaaS innovator and Chat Commerce leader, has announced it has launched the integration of its industry-leading Chat 2 Pay payment solution with Salesforce Commerce Cloud, the fastest path

Absa Group 2021 Earnings Increase on Lower Impairments, Higher Pre-provision Profit

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*Salient points Revenue increased 6% to R85.9billion Operating costs rose 4% to R47.4 billion Cost-to-income ratio decreased to 55.2% from 56% Pre-provision profit increased 7% to R38.5 billion Impairments fell 59% to R8.5 billion Headline earnings per share increased to 2197 cents from 946.5 cents Return on equity improved to 15.8% from 7.2% Group CET

1Stream: Five Ways CRM Can Help Your Sales Team Close More Deals

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When you give your sales team the right tools to effectively and efficiently manage clients and build a relationship with them, you positively impact your bottom line. 1Stream’s smart CRM is specifically designed to do just that and has helped transform organisations across various sectors in Southern Africa, which understand the value of building meaningful

Absa Expands its Digital Partnership Ecosystem

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Absa Group has signed agreements with the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Ghana, the Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative (CiTi) and Grindstone in South Africa to support and collaborate in initiatives that are aimed at growing emerging technology and other businesses in Africa. The agreements expand Absa’s Digital Partnerships capability, established in 2020

The Agricultural Development Bank Opens 87th Branch At Takoradi Market Circle

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The Agricultural Development Bank PLC (ADB) as part of its corporate strategy has opened a new branch in Takoradi in the Western Region, making it the 87th branch of the bank nationwide. The new branch located within the Takoradi Market Circle area is in response to the growing business population and heed to calls from

Flywire Partners with Adapt IT to Digitize International Education Payments in South Africa

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Flywire integrates directly into the Adapt IT student management system to digitize and streamline cross-border education payments into South Africa Flywire Corporation, a global payments enablement and software company, announced the availability of an integration with Adapt IT Education, a division of Adapt IT Holdings Limited to streamline and digitize cross-border education payments for students

Firstbank Rewards Customers with 50 Million Naira Worth of Prizes in Verve Card Campaign

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FirstBank, Nigeria’s leading financial inclusion services provider has urged its customers to take advantage of the Bank’s ongoing Verve Card campaign designed to reward customers for their continued usage of the Verve debit Card. The Eight-week promo will end on Wednesday, 30 March 2022 as 2,601 customers will win various prizes. These prizes include: N20,000