Money Transfer App WorldRemit Raises $40 Million in Third Round of Funding
EXCLUSIVE- Emerging markets-focused money transfer app WorldRemit has raised another round of funding, bringing the total amount to $220 million. ...
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Standard Bank, Africa’s Largest Bank, Joins INV
EXCLUSIVE -- Standard Bank Group, the largest bank in Africa, has joined the INV Fintech accelerator program as a partner, ...
Banking API innovation from emerging and frontier markets
Two big themes on Daily Fintech are: First the Rest, then the West (the idea that innovation in the 20th ...
The Trigger for Electronic Cash Comes From the Underbanked.
The humble ATM is holding up well. Folding notes are OK. According to research firm RBR, reported here, ATM cash withdrawals ...
BitFury Invests in BitPesa, Pan-Africa Bitcoin Trading Platform
BitFury, the world's leading bitcoin blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company has just made an investment in BitPesa -- a universal ...
VIDEO: Standard Bank Launches Mobile Payments — With 3% Fee
Standard Bank in South Africa introduced a new mobile payments option for merchants called SnapPay -- and the bank is ...
FNB South Africa Is Turning In Impressive Mobile Transaction Volume
The financial services story in Africa has been dominated in recent years by M-PESA, the Kenyan mobile payments service. But ...
5 Most Popular Banking Questions on Quora Right Now
Some have suggested that Quora might be the new Google. While we won't go that far, the Q&A site offers ...
A New Take on ‘Mobile’ Banking
Put down your smartphone, we're talking about a different kind of mobile banking here. You've heard of food trucks, right? ...
