2026-1-24 23:56 |
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, economist Vera Songwe pointed to remittances and inflation hedging as key drivers of stablecoin use across Africa. origin »
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Stablecoins, remittances, and resilience are rewriting finance, making the continent the world’s proving ground for real adoption.
2025-9-28 11:14 | |
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Yellow Card is driving Africa’s transition from Bitcoin to stablecoins, with a focus on remittances, regulatory clarity, and expanding infrastructure for emerging markets. The post Stablecoins, Not Bitcoin, Are Winning Africa: Yellow Card CEO on Africa’s Crypto Shift appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2025-4-9 23:30 | |
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Ripple has taken another significant step in expanding its footprint in Africa by partnering with Chipper Cash, a leading fintech firm on the continent.
2025-3-30 00:32 | |
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Ripple also announced product enhancements and license updates, including a focus on payments between enterprises and smaller businesses.
2023-11-8 07:00 | |
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The new Lightning-based service lets users in the U. S. send even small cash payments to parts of Southeast Asia and Africa quickly and cheaply. Eventually, the service will be available throughout the world, giving foreign workers everywhere a new way to send their pay back home.
2023-4-17 15:12 | |
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Ripple-enabled remittances to flow from 19 European countries to Africa
2022-12-16 16:37 | |
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People in Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana can now receive instant, low-cost remittances in local currency from the EU and the UK through Bitcoin’s Lightning.
2022-12-15 15:06 | |
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People in Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana can now receive instant, low-cost remittance payments in local currency through Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.
2022-12-7 16:30 | |
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Geopolitical Analyst Nick Giambruno called Nigeria’s eNaira project a “massive failure” while saying the outcome has not been “what the elites hoped for.” The eNaira launched on October 25, 2021, with President Muhammadu Buhari saying Africa’s first Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) would “increase remittances, foster cross-border trade, improve financial inclusion and enable the government […] The post eNaira CBDC ‘a massive failure’ despite Nigerian central bank’s claims to the contrary appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-11-3 18:36 | |
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At the Global Blockchain Convention in Dubai yesterday, Centbee announced that consumers living in the UK can send digital cash via the blockchain to their...
2022-5-30 08:33 | |
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Secretum, an all-in-one ecosystem for messaging, crypto remittances and NFTs, is going to bring its instruments to Africa and Asia
2021-12-22 15:58 | |
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Partisia Blockchain has signed a partnership deal with OriginAll to put an end to the issue of medicine counterfeiting in African nations. And lack of accountability in the remittances and charitable donations ecosystem.
2021-12-21 17:00 | |
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As digital payments transactions rapidly continue to grow in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Ripple partners up with an international blockchain-based financial services company Pyypl in a bid to bring instant, low-cost remittances to the area.
2021-10-27 07:00 | |
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Stellar posted a tweet on October 25, 2021, to announce a new transaction system linking Europe and Africa. Following the announcement, the blockchain platform also announced a partnership with Flutterwave.
2021-10-27 21:00 | |
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Stellar, the blockchain network dedicated to facilitating cheap cross-border financial transactions, is set to… The post Stellar’s network to facilitate remittances between Europe and Africa appeared first on Coin Journal.
2021-10-26 13:04 | |
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With $78 billion in remittances in 2020 from Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE) combined, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is home to two of the top three remittance corridors in the world.
2021-10-27 08:00 | |
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RippleNet, the blockchain-based enterprise global payments network of Ripple, is primed to increase its footprint in Latin America and Africa with a remittance firm set out to unveil cross-border remittances using the tech.
2021-9-18 14:45 | |
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2021-9-17 18:35 | |
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P2P platforms, the need for remittances to circumvent restrictions from banks, and putting savings into crypto as a means of avoiding inflation could have contributed to the growing market in Africa.
2021-9-15 00:15 | |
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The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) is collaborating with apex banks in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, and South Africa to trial central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for cross-border payments and remittances, according to a Coindesk report on September 2, 2021.
2021-9-3 23:00 | |
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Mercury's international payments firm to utilize RippleNet On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) platform to ease remittance payments between the United Kingdom and South Africa. The post International FX Exchange & Ripple Partner, Mercury to Boost Remittances in South Africa Using ODL first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-3-31 18:20 | |
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A former Microsoft software engineer and co-founder of Buycoins Africa Tomiwa Lasebikan says some Nigerians expatriates are now using bitcoin to circumvent the country’s overvalued exchange rate when sending remittances.
2020-11-26 15:15 | |
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Украинцы и россияне являются наиболее активными пользователями криптовалют в мире. Об этом свидетельствует предварительный отчет аналитической компании Chainalysis. We have another preview of our Geography of Cryptocurrency Report! Read to learn about Africa's growing cryptocurrency economy, including use cases around remittances, commercial transactions, and saving in times of economic turbulence.
2020-9-8 18:24 | |
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Bitcoin trading volumes are on the rise on the African continent despite the ongoing concerns about the high network fees. Data shows peer to peer bitcoin trading platforms recorded spiked growth in volumes starting in April.
2020-8-13 15:30 | |
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Remittances have become a lifeline for many people in Sub-Saharan Africa, but the cost of sending money via banks and money transfer operators remains punitively high. On average, it costs 9.3% (of value transferred) to send the equivalent of $200 to the region, the highest remittance rates anywhere on the planet, according to the new […] The post Crypto-Based Transfers Can Cut Remittance Costs in Africa by 90% appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-4-23 12:30 | |
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A researcher uncovered a 149 million-credential dump from infostealer malware, including 420,000 Binance logins, exposing growing risks to crypto users.
Strategy acquired $264 million of Bitcoin last week during a market pullback, boosting its holdings to more than 712,000 BTC, according to a Monday SEC filing.
Bitcoin dipped below $87,000 as the Coinbase Premium hit 12-month lows, signalling weak US demand and with technicals hinting at a $66,000 BTC price target.
Digital asset investment products saw the largest weekly outflows since mid-November 2025, totalling $1. 73 billion, according to CoinShares data. The outflows point to a sharp shift in investor confidence amid broader market pressures, with the exodus coinciding with price declines in major cryptocurrencies.
The US dollar is weakening, yet Bitcoin continues to lag, and the reason is not bearish pressure but a lack of risk appetite. The post Dollar Is Weak, but Why Is Bitcoin Lagging? appeared first on Coinspeaker.
The blockchain battle is now centered on distribution, as established firms convert existing customers into network participants and create new competitive landscapes.
The gains accrued earlier this month have been wiped out as Bitcoin dropped below the $88k level on Monday. The cryptocurrency market has been bearish over the last three weeks and has begun another week with more losses.
