Zambia

MFS Africa Now Reaches Over 320 Million Mobile Money Wallets, Covering 60% of All Mobile Wallets in Sub-Saharan Africa

Pan-African fintech provides unprecedented reach on the African continent

Pan-African fintech leader MFS Africa has announced that it now reaches over 320 million mobile money wallets, enabling a range Read More →

Apr 2, 2021 Staff Reporter

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$1.3 Million Grants Approved for Two Research Efforts to Enhance Women’s Digital Access to Loans and Micro-insurance

The African Development Bank has approved two grants for research that will increase African women’s access to a range of digital financial services including loans and micro-insurance. The grants, for $1 Read More →

Mar 16, 2021 Staff Reporter

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Absa Bank Zambia PLC Launches the 2020 Virtual Absa Marathon

Absa Bank Zambia PLC, in partnership with the Lusaka Fitness Squad (LFS), is pleased to announce the launch of the second edition of the Absa Marathon - a virtual event Read More →

Dec 15, 2020 Staff Reporter

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MFS Africa Teams Up with Xoom, a PayPal Service, to Bring New International Mobile Money Transfers to Africa

New partnership will help enable users of Xoom, PayPal’s remittance service, to transfer money to six African markets through leading pan-African fintech platform MFS Africa

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Dec 11, 2020 Staff Reporter

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How the Digitisation of Remittances can Support Africa’s Economic Recovery

By: Andy Jury, CEO, Mukuru Taking customers on a compelling digital payments journey lays the foundation for financial inclusion. With the majority of African countries now facing steep economic activity declines in Read More →

Nov 11, 2020 Staff Reporter

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MFS Africa Drives Cheaper African Remittances with PaySii

Pan-African cross-border payments leader MFS Africa has announced its partnership with global money transfer start-up PaySii to help facilitate remittances in Africa. The partnership with MFS Africa will enable PaySii to Read More →

Sep 8, 2020 Staff Reporter

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Standard Chartered and Airtel Africa Form Partnership to Drive Financial Inclusion Across Africa

Standard Chartered and Airtel Africa will work together to co-create new, innovative products aimed at enhancing the accessibility of financial services Standard Chartered Bank and Airtel Africa have announced a strategic Read More →

Aug 20, 2020 Staff Reporter

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Absa ARO Completes Fully Virtual Implementation as It Moves to Fiserv for Card Management and Processing Across Nine African Nations

Fiserv, Inc. has announced that Absa Regional Operations (ARO) has moved to Fiserv to support credit card management and processing in nine African nations. What started as a program to enable Read More →

Aug 14, 2020 Staff Reporter

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United Bank for Africa Group Announces Global Management Appointments

The new CEOs will drive the Group’s strategy and activities in Mali, Uganda, Zambia, Senegal, Tanzania and Sierra Leone respectively United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) (www.UBAgroup.com), the leading pan-African financial Read More →

Jul 31, 2020 Staff Reporter

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AgriPay Brings Digital Banking to Thousands of Zambian Farmers

The average rural farmer in Zambia lives several kilometres away from their nearest neighbour and even further away from the nearest settlement where shops, agro-dealers and other services, such as Read More →

Mar 19, 2020 Staff Reporter