Huawei Partners With WorldRemit To Accelerate Growth Of Low Cost Mobile-To-Mobile Money Transfers To Africa

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Leading digital money transfer service WorldRemit and Huawei have announced a partnership making WorldRemit’s international money transfer service available to all partners of Huawei’s mobile money service platform across Africa. The partnership, which was announced at the GSMA’s Mobile 360 conference in Dar es Salaam, enables Huawei to add a ready-made solution for remittances –

Xpress Money And TerraPay Partner To Enable Real-Time International Money Transfers In Africa

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Xpress Money, one of the world’s most dependable money transfer brands has partnered with TerraPay, the world’s first mobile payments switch, to enable real-time international money transfers to mobile wallets in Africa. Powered by TerraPay’s global clearing and settlement service for mobile wallets, the partnership will make it faster and convenient for Xpress Money consumers

Mastercard Invests In South Africa’s Young Female Entrepreneurs

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More than 160 out-of-school, unemployed or self-employed young women between the ages of 18 and 35 have graduated today from the Junior Achievement South Africa (JA South Africa) Youth Enterprise Development Programme 2017. This Mastercard-funded initiative empowers women to pursue entrepreneurial ventures of their own. Over the 20 week programme, the women participated in theoretical

Wirecard Brings WeChat Pay To Europe

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Europe has a new mobile payment method: Wirecard will enable European retailers to accept WeChat Pay, one of the leading mobile payment solutions in China. As part of Tencent, the leading provider of Internet value added services in China, WeChat and Weixin are part of Chinese people’s daily life, and the combined monthly active users

TransferTo and MallforAfrica Team Up to Accelerate Digital Payments and Connect Africa to the e-Commerce World

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TransferTo, a global B2B Cross-Border Mobile Payments Network, has partnered up with MallforAfrica (MFA), an award-winning global e-commerce platform, to offer shoppers living in Africa with direct online access to over 200 major retailers across Europe and the USA. Over the last few years, e-commerce has been growing in popularity across Africa. According to McKinsey,

DTB and Mastercard Partner to Enhance Digital Payments in Kenya

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Diamond Trust Bank Kenya (DTB) and Mastercard have announced their partnership to roll-out the DTB Masterpass QR app in Kenya, a mobile payment solution that will enable millions of businesses to accept fast and secure digital payments from consumers. This comes after merchant service provider, Kopo Kopo, announced their partnership with Mastercard in March 2017,

South African Fintech Startup Sets New African Record

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An African record has been set for the FICA process which used to take anywhere from two days to two weeks. It is now completed within three minutes thanks to an innovative South African’s fintech startup, ThisIsMe. “ThisIsMe has set a new African record for the compliance process known as Know Your Customer (KYC) and

Visa and Direct Pay Partnership Enables 20,000 More Merchants to accept mVisa Payments

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Visa and Direct Pay Online Group (DPO), the leading online payment service provider in Africa, have announced that they are enabling 20,000 more merchants to accept mVisa payments, facilitating mobile commerce in Kenya and connecting more people and businesses to the global economy. Consumers will be able to use Visa’s innovative, secure and interoperable mobile

Visa and Direct Pay Partnership Enables 20,000 More Merchants to accept mVisa Payments

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Visa and Direct Pay Online Group (DPO), the leading online payment service provider in Africa, have announced that they are enabling 20,000 more merchants to accept mVisa payments, facilitating mobile commerce in Kenya and connecting more people and businesses to the global economy. Consumers will be able to use Visa’s innovative, secure and interoperable mobile

Guaranty Trust Bank Launches the GTBank Mastercard

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With focus on building a stronger financial payment sector and ensuring all citizens are financially included, Guaranty Trust Bank (Uganda) Ltd (GTBank) officially launched the GTBank Debit Mastercard in Uganda in June. The bank is the first issuer of Mastercard in Uganda, signalling a key milestone for the country. There are three GTBank Debit Mastercards