Western Union and Elektra say users in Mexico can now receive money via chatbot. The offering, the latest in a series of efforts by Western Union to expand...
Kenyan telecom Safaricom has brought its mobile money service M-Pesa to Ethiopia. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Saturday (Aug. 26), the service went live in Africa’s second-most populous country...
Open banking is now live in Nigeria, the first country to adopt open banking regulations in the Africa region. The operational guidelines to kickstart the...
Ooredoo and Huawei have partnered on mobile money in the Middle East and North Africa. This collaboration will provide Huawei’s FinTech and mobile money platform...
A consultative meeting focused on the future of Ethiopia’s mobile money market is to be held Tuesday (Feb. 21). The meeting concerns a draft directive...
The State Bank of Vietnam is working to expand the use of cashless payments in rural areas. Thus far, mobile money, one of the financial...
Corporate fraud may be on the rise, but so is highly aggressive corporate fraud-fighting. As Nithai Barzam, chief operating officer at cybersecurity FinTech nsKnox, told...
In 2020, scientists at the University of Zambia (UNZA) proposed a clearing and settlement architecture that would allow interoperability between mobile money payment networks based...
Solopreneurs and micro-businesses are the lifeblood of Africa’s informal and semiformal economies, but when it comes to accessing working capital loans, they are typically underserved...