IPT Africa, a purpose-driven leader in the B2B global cross-border payments sector, has proudly announced its selection into the prestigious Visa Accelerator Program – Africa 2025, making history as the first Mauritian company to be included in this highly competitive pan-African fintech initiative. The Visa Accelerator Program – Africa 2025 is designed to identify and
Peach Payments, a digital payments gateway, has agreed to acquire West-African payment platform PayDunya. In the process, it will enter mainland Francophone Africa for the first time, following its expansion to Eswatini (2024), Mauritius (2021), and Kenya (2018). Peach Payments is an enterprise-grade payments gateway that enables online payments in Africa for businesses of all
Mastercard has opened its first office in Accra, Ghana, to support the country’s growing digital economy. This expansion strengthens its footprint across Africa, with existing offices in Cairo, Casablanca, Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi, and Mauritius. This move is part of Mastercard’s strategy to reinforce relationships with local stakeholders and foster inclusive growth in West Africa. “Opening
Last year, the World Economic Forum called Africa the “world leader” in digital and mobile banking. There’s no doubt that banking in Africa has undergone significant changes in the last few years and that it will continue to change and grow in the coming years. How can business leaders prepare for this? How has the
The Bank of Mauritius (Bank) wishes to draw the attention of the public regarding the misuse of debit cards and One-Time Passwords (OTPs) for internet banking and online transactions. These cases relate to a form of money laundering known as “money muling”. Money muling is a criminal activity whereby fraudsters (usually phishers) entice people, often
The Bank is introducing its new Monetary Policy Framework (MPF) effective 16 January 2023. The new framework is expected to address the deficiencies of the existing one and help to further strengthen monetary policy operations and the monetary policy transmission mechanism. The existing framework lacked a clearly defined nominal anchor and needed to be aligned
Bank One announced today its partnership with Mastercard to roll out its whole new range of world-class debit and credit cards. The bank officially unveiled the new cards menu during a cocktail organized at Domaine de Labourdonnais in Mapou, on Friday 4 November 2022, in the presence of its customers, collaborators and the Mastercard team.
Supporting visionary CFOs and finance professionals with a new cloud financial management platform Sage (https://www.Sage.com/en-za/), the leader in accounting, financial, HR, and payroll technology for small and medium-sized businesses, launched Sage Intacct in Namibia, Botswana and Mauritius today. The award-winning cloud financial management solution provides finance teams with the insights and automation they need to
The rating provides both investors and customers with an independent and verified view of Bank One’s credit standing Bank One (www.BankOne.mu) is pleased to announce that it has received a Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) of ‘BB-‘ with a Stable Outlook from Fitch Ratings for its first rating exercise. The rating was made public by
Carrick Wealth has received its investment license to operate in Zambia, a development which will bring positive benefits to the region. This marks the company’s fifth African country in its growing suite of offices, with presence already established in South Africa, Mauritius, Malawi and Zimbabwe, and shows that Carrick’s bold African expansion plans are taking
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