Visa launches first African Integration Index in South Africa

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Visa in South Africa launched the first Visa Africa Integration Index that measures the degree of economic integration within key trade corridors of sub-Saharan Africa, namely West Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa. Together with its partners, global payments company Visa touches 500 million people in these key African markets. Rationale Mandy Lamb, Acting General Manager for

Identive Ships 1 Million NFC Tags for African Banking and Payment Program

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Identive Group, Inc., a provider of solutions and services for the identification, security and RFID industries, announced that it has received orders for one million NFC TOM™ (Tag on Metal) phone stickers to enable a banking and payment program in Africa. 800,000 of the NFC tags and all of the NFC phone stickers are scheduled