Region

Orient Bank Partners with UnionPay International for Card Acquiring Business

Orient Bank Uganda Limited and UnionPay International have announced recently that UnionPay Cards are now accepted at all ATMs and POS terminals of Orient Bank in Uganda. Orient Bank is Read More →

Aug 8, 2018 Staff Reporter

Country 1740

Nedbank Money App Enables All QR Scan-to-Pay Services

Mastercard and Entersekt have collaborated to enable Nedbank’s customers to make QR payments to Masterpass, Pay@, SnapScan, and Zapper merchants and billers through the Nedbank Money app, whether they are Read More →

Aug 2, 2018 Staff Reporter

Country 1740

MyGate by Wirecard Launches secureEFT to Boost Online Sales for Merchants

Merchants who receive payments from consumers via electronic funds transfer (EFT) can now get instant notification of successful settlement, significantly speeding up transactions. secureEFT, an instant EFT payment service that allows Read More →

Aug 2, 2018 Staff Reporter

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Two South African Startups make it to Final Round of Visa’s Everywhere Initiative in Sub Sahara Africa

Leading fintech companies from the Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) technology startup community have made it to the finals of Visa’s Everywhere Initiative, a global innovation program that tasks start-ups to solve Read More →

Jul 23, 2018 Staff Reporter

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Truecaller Partners with Paystack to Enable More African Businesses to Accept Online Payments

We’ve partnered with Paystack to allow more merchants across Africa to accept payments online in a frictionless and secure manner by leveraging Truecaller’s mobile identity product, Truecaller SDK. Paystack is one Read More →

Jul 19, 2018 Staff Reporter

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Collaboration Forms to Enable Real-Time Cross Border Money Transfers to CEMAC Region

GIMAC, the regional electronic money transfer platform of Central Africa and TerraPay, the world’s first mobile payments switch have signed a strategic partnership agreement that will strengthen the remittances ecosystem Read More →

Jul 13, 2018 Staff Reporter

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FNB Branches Widen Digital Banking Reach

FNB customers are increasingly using the bank’s branch based Digital Zones to transact. The bank says the use of its Digital Zones has grown considerably since introduction in 2016 with Read More →

Jul 4, 2018 Staff Reporter

Country 1740

Crossfin in Partnership with Apis for Payments Acceptance in Southern Africa

The pursuit of greater electronic payment adoption among South African merchants received a significant boost with the announcement of a partnership between leading African fintech holding company Crossfin Technology Holdings Read More →

Jul 3, 2018 Staff Reporter

Country 1740

Mastercard and Selcom Help Shift Tanzania Towards a Cashless Economy

Mastercard and Selcom have expanded their collaboration by signing a seven year strategic partnership agreement to introduce a variety of payment solutions in the country, thus supporting Tanzania’s goal of Read More →

Jun 29, 2018 Staff Reporter

Country 1740

EcoCash Launches Dedicated Wallet for Business Payments

Zimbabwe’s leading mobile money service EcoCash unveiled a dedicated wallet for business payments. The business wallet, which represents the first time in Africa that an enterprise transactions service has been integrated Read More →

Jun 28, 2018 Staff Reporter