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Mukuru CEO Andy Jury on stage at Africa Tech Week 2024

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Tigran Gambaryan, an executive of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, sits as he waits to face prosecution for tax evasion and money laundering at the federal high court in Abuja, Nigeria, 4 April 2024. Reuters/ Abraham Achirga

Detained Binance executive in court on Nigerian tax, money laundering charges

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Robert van Breukelen, COO at Itemate Solutions

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Global cryptocurrency regulation standards expected in June

Global cryptocurrency regulation standards expected in June

Christopher Murrer and Dean Joffe 14 Jun 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

5 ways Africa's payments industry is evolving

Vaughan Alexander 12 Jun 2019

#AfricaMonth: Grey Jabesi on nurturing creativity and innovation in Africa

#AfricaMonth: Grey Jabesi on nurturing creativity and innovation in Africa

Evan-Lee Courie 20 May 2019

Riccardo Spagni

Three trends reshaping blockchain as we know it

Riccardo Spagni 13 May 2019

Africa's big 5 keys to financial transformation, inclusion

Africa's big 5 keys to financial transformation, inclusion

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Can AI be trusted to make investment decisions?

Can AI be trusted to make investment decisions?

Leigh Köhler 7 May 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

#AfricaMonth: Fintech driving African economies across traditional sectors

3 May 2019

Akinwale Goodluck

Policy and the potential of mobile money for financial inclusion

Akinwale Goodluck 29 Mar 2019

Africa's guide to sustainable development goals

Africa's guide to sustainable development goals

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Interoperability and financial inclusion in Africa

Interoperability and financial inclusion in Africa

Nicci Botha 20 Mar 2019

#SeamlessSA: Strategic partnerships key to seamless payment ecosystem

#SeamlessSA: Strategic partnerships key to seamless payment ecosystem

Maroefah Smith 15 Mar 2019

Safaricom customers to use M-Pesa for Ali Express Purchases

Safaricom customers to use M-Pesa for Ali Express Purchases

13 Mar 2019

Kobus du Plooy, CEO of Celbux

Mobile wallets still have a way to go

6 Mar 2019

Transactional sector is about to be transformed

Transactional sector is about to be transformed

7 Feb 2019

Adesh Kisten, head of sales i-Pay.

Is the African retail market ready for the digital boom?

25 Jan 2019

#BizTrends2019: Payments, engagement, partnership - African retail trends for 2019

#BizTrends2019: Payments, engagement, partnership - African retail trends for 2019

Mark Schech 22 Jan 2019

Corrie Bakker, Head of Business Development & Strategy - Africa at PayU EMEA

#BizTrends2019: The digitalisation of payment providers in 2019

Evan-Lee Courie 21 Jan 2019

Mobile payments boost Nigerian economy

Mobile payments boost Nigerian economy

17 Jan 2019

Kate Mollett, regional manager, Veeam

Hyper-availability is the key to success for fintechs

Kate Mollett 10 Jan 2019

170 million mobile wallets across Africa

170 million mobile wallets across Africa

14 Dec 2018

Orange, MTN launch pan-African mobile money

Orange, MTN launch pan-African mobile money

27 Nov 2018

Joe Pindar, research & development director, data protection, Gemalto

10 years on. Is Bitcoin here to stay?

Joe Pindar 16 Nov 2018

Survey reveals more about IoT payments

Survey reveals more about IoT payments

14 Nov 2018

Bitcoin has evolved from a currency to a commodity

Bitcoin has evolved from a currency to a commodity

2 Nov 2018

[Left to Right] Professor Mthuli Ncube, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Finance and Economic Development; Ajay Banga, President and CEO, Mastercard and Dr John Mangudya, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.

Driving digital transformation in Zimbabwe

24 Oct 2018

Corporate content should be part of your DNA

Corporate content should be part of your DNA

Bizcommunity.com 24 Oct 2018

Bizcommunity Recruitment in Africa Focus

Bizcommunity Recruitment in Africa Focus

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Practices for financial services sector to protect itself against DDoS attacks

Practices for financial services sector to protect itself against DDoS attacks

17 Oct 2018

Omar Abdisalan/Amisom/Flickr

Mobile money transfers have taken off in Somalia. But there are risks

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Is Africa the Silicon Valley of banking?

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#BizTrends2019: Payments, engagement, partnership - African retail trends for 2019

#BizTrends2019: Payments, engagement, partnership - African retail trends for 2019

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Corrie Bakker, Head of Business Development & Strategy - Africa at PayU EMEA

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Mobile payments boost Nigerian economy

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170 million mobile wallets across Africa

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Survey reveals more about IoT payments

Survey reveals more about IoT payments

14 Nov 2018

Bitcoin has evolved from a currency to a commodity

Bitcoin has evolved from a currency to a commodity

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[Left to Right] Professor Mthuli Ncube, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Finance and Economic Development; Ajay Banga, President and CEO, Mastercard and Dr John Mangudya, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.

Driving digital transformation in Zimbabwe

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Mobile money transfers have taken off in Somalia. But there are risks

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Is Africa the Silicon Valley of banking?

Is Africa the Silicon Valley of banking?

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John Kamaro, director for Global Gaming Africa

Blockchain as a solution to Africa's challenges

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Nigeria's Paga raises $10m for international expansion

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SA payments startup Yoco raises $16m in funding

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Nigerian WhatsApp chatbot launched for UBA bank

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Nigeria's mobile payment system, mCash relaunches

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Contactless payments to account for 15% of total POS transactions by 2020

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