Loop Commerce Empowers Retailers to Guarantee the Perfect Gift-Giving Experience for Online Shoppers

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Loop Commerce, the first-of-its-kind turnkey, SaaS solution and checkout that powers gifting for retailers, announced that it is available for online shoppers this holiday season with multiple top brands and retailers. Loop enables a new, personal way to give and receive gifts through a unique e-gifting experience. Its turnkey solution easily integrates with retailers’ online

Digital Payments in East Africa (Part I): Card Payment Alternatives

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Kenya and East Africa are actively transitioning to cashless payments systems. East Africa’s economies are largely cash based informal economies with its associated costs. Challenges in aggregating national transaction data, consumer spending patterns, tax administration – there is really no shortage of incentives. “With no means to track sales, little data is available, and channels

Supermart.ng, BidorBuy, Yuppiechef join eCommerce Africa’s advisory panel

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Organisers of eCommerce Africa Conference 2015 have announced members of the conference’s advisory panel. They are Nigeria’s Supermart.ng, South Africa-based Bidorbuy.co.za and ecommerce platform Yuppiechef.com Participants at the conference will enjoy tech demo sessions, networking opportunities, cocktail functions and supplier demonstrations. The expert-led advisory panel which includes Raphael Afaedor, Co-Founder of Jumia, and CEO and

Celebrating a Digital Christmas with MasterPass in Europe

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MasterCard has announced the launch of MasterPass in France and Russia expanding the MasterPass footprint to seven countries in Europe and 16 countries worldwide. MasterPass is the only global digital platform to eliminate the need to enter detailed payment and shipping information with every purchase, simplifying and speeding up the process of completing a transaction

Tanzania Women Bank Offers Banking Programmes to Several African Nations

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Entrepreneurs from Somalia, South Somaliland and South Sudan were in the country for training on banking industry operations. The training provided by the Tanzania Women Bank (TWB) was aimed at helping them to learn about operations of the banking industry so as to be able to establish financial institutions in their countries. Speaking during the

MasterCard and Smartlink SA Sign a MasterPass Reseller License Agreement

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MasterCard announced that it has granted Smartlink SA a license to host and offer a white label version of the MasterPass wallet to its customers. Smartlink SA operates a wallet platform that allows European financial institutions and merchants to build their individual personalized applications. Besides offering its customers innovative and enhanced mobile wallet services for

NCR Installs First-ever ATM in Somalia

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NCR Corporation continues to deliver consumer transaction technologies and financial services around the world by installing Somalia’s first-ever automated teller machine (ATM) in Mogadishu, the East African country’s capital, with Salaam Somali Bank. “We are excited to bring the first ATM to Mogadishu. The installation serves as a sign of hope for the city as

ShopKeep Launches New eCommerce Store for Point of Sale Hardware and Accessories

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ShopKeep, the cloud-based small business technology provider trusted by more than 10,000 independent business owners to manage retail shops and restaurants with iPads, unveiled its new ecommerce site, shop.shopkeep.com. To celebrate this new site, ShopKeep is giving new customers a free credit card reader that supports Apple Pay and chip cards. The new site has

Alaska USA Federal Credit Union Taps Cardtronics to Expand Surcharge-Free Access in Northwest

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Alaska USA Federal Credit Union is partnering with Cardtronics, Inc., the world’s largest retail ATM owner / operator, to provide Alaska USA’s members surcharge-free access to over 200 Cardtronics-owned and -operated ATMs at premier retail locations throughout Washington and in the High Desert area of California. Alaska USA is among the 20 largest credit unions

Management Changes at BancABC

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ABC Holdings Limited announces that Doug T. Munatsi, Group CEO, Beki Moyo, Group CFO, and Francis M. Dzanya, Group COO, will be stepping down from their roles at BancABC at the end of the year. This follows Atlas Mara Co-Nvest Ltd’s (“Atlas Mara”) successful completion of its acquisition of BancABC in August 2014. Since the