Middle Africa

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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TransferTo Drives Further Expansion into Africa with New Senior Appointment

TransferTo, a leading Cross-Border Mobile Payments Network for emerging markets, has appointed Djibril Diallo as VP Business Development to head operations across West and Central Africa, as the company ramps Read More →

Nov 27, 2017 Staff Reporter

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LCB Bank and Mastercard Work on the Republic of Congo’s Economy Transformation

LCB Bank, a subsidiary of BMCE Bank Of Africa Morocco Group, and Mastercard have announced their and partnership focused on digitising the Republic of Congo's financial economy in support of Read More →

Nov 24, 2017 Staff Reporter

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Why the Rest of the World Should be Following Africa’s Mobile Banking Example

Entersekt CEO, Schalk Nolte, looks at how African banks are responding to mobile security threats and points out that the rest of the world should be taking a page out Read More →

Jun 2, 2016 Staff Writer

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UBA Launches One-Stop e-payment Portal

E-commerce in Africa is set to receive a boost as United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has introduced an online payments and collections platform tagged U-bills. The online payment platform Read More →

Sep 2, 2014 Staff Writer

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TMB Honored as the Best Bank in Central Africa

TMB has been announced as the Best Bank in Central Africa at the prestigious African Banker Awards. The awards ceremony was held in Kigali, Rwanda, during the African Development Bank’s Read More →

Jun 3, 2014 Staff Writer

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Banco Nacional de Angola Implements SWIFT Sanctions Screening

SWIFT has announced that Banco Nacional de Angola is implementing SWIFT’s Sanctions Screening service to help the country meet its financial crime compliance obligations. SWIFT Sanctions Screening is a cloud-based subscription Read More →

May 9, 2014 Staff Writer

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MasterCard Enters Seven New Markets in Africa

MasterCard has announced its expansion into seven new markets across Central and West Africa, increasing its acceptance footprint across the continent and securing a number of strategic agreements. The addition of Read More →

Mar 5, 2014 Staff Writer

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Standard Chartered Opens a Subsidiary in Angola

Standard Chartered has announced the opening of an onshore banking subsidiary in Angola, together with ENSA, a leading Angolan insurance company. The Bank has signed a joint venture with ENSA Read More →

Jan 21, 2014 Staff Writer