2021-9-16 12:12 |
Paydek payments operator uses RippleNet to expand its digital payments to Africa and several Latin American countries
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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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PayPal giant and Ripple client Flutterwave are promoting international payments for African merchants and are running big discounts for them
2021-8-3 15:52 | |
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North Africa’s largest bank, National Bank of Egypt, joins RippleNet via LuLu International Exchange to process cross-border payments from the UAE to Egypt. The post National Bank of Egypt and LuLu International Exchange Connect Through RippleNet to Elevate Remittance Experience into Egypt appeared first on Ripple.
2021-5-20 09:00 | |
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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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Crypto payments network Electroneum is expanding its utility bill and mobile phone airtime top-up coverage to more countries in Africa.
2021-1-9 12:07 | |
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Stablecoins and continentwide regulations are key to breaking down barriers to Africa's economic growth.
2020-12-4 19:13 | |
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As access to crypto spreads across Africa, blockchain could be crucial in improving cross-border payments and settlement systems.
2020-11-16 18:00 | |
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As per an announcement from April 23, Bundle now lets its users send, receive and request cash and crypto from Nigeria. The company is planning to expand its services to more than 30 countries in Africa by the end of 2020, providing a simple crypto fiat on and off-ramp across the continent. Aside from the […]
2020-4-24 22:39 | |
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The payments app launched initially in Nigeria, but there are plans to expand to 30 African nations his year.
2020-4-24 17:50 | |
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Coinspeaker Crypto CREDIT is Africa’s Sleeping GiantThe only way a cryptocurrency can become a global payment system is if everyone who makes payments has access to it. CREDIT is focusing on achieving this goal by giving away their cryptocurrency to anyone who wants to use it.Crypto CREDIT is Africa’s Sleeping Giant
2019-12-5 10:46 | |
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TransferGo, an online remittance platform pitched at migrant workers, has entered into a new agreement with Ripple to use the company’s technology for cross-border transfers to and from Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa.
2019-11-26 13:07 | |
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Ripple's XRP to be used for cross-border payments in different world regions by TransferGo
2019-11-26 08:59 | |
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Mercury FX is an international payments specialist with offices in London, Hong Kong and South Africa. The company joined RippleNet to speed up transfers, lower costs and open up new markets that were previously too expensive to access.
2019-11-22 21:59 | |
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Nigerian fintech Opay — founded by crypto-supporting web browser Opera — has raised $120 million in series B funding to scale its payments solution across Africa
2019-11-18 14:05 | |
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Jack Dorsey, Co-Founder and CEO of Twitter, is attending Bitcoin meetups in Sub-Saharan Africa to discuss the adoption of Bitcoin payments in Ghana and Nigeria.
2019-11-13 19:11 | |
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DASH now available African exchange and payments app Kudi - CryptoNinjas Today, it was announced that cryptocurrency Dash will be available on Ferrum Network, an interoperability network for real-world financial applications, including listing as a payment option on its African-based Kudi Exchange.
2019-9-17 21:51 | |
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While the whole work is looking at Facebook’s new project Libra, Facebook is looking at Sub-Saharan Africa. According to a recent job opening, the company is looking for a policy expert in Africa that could ensure that payments are made in the countries of the continent using WhatsApp. While the job posting does not mention […]
2019-9-6 22:54 | |
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Huge opportunity to capture the unbanked and underbanked, Jeremy Light XRP as a bridge currency will be a game changer RippleNet is now active in more than 40 countries across 6 continents — from Asia, Africa, North America, South America to Europe — reports international Association of Money Transfers Networks (IAMTN). A non profit organization, […]
2019-8-29 20:03 | |
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These are very interesting times for Bitcoin, which evidently remains the world’s leading cryptocurrency. Despite a price revival of some sorts, it now appears yet another service provider is ending BTC support altogether.
2019-7-17 00:00 | |
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In an unfortunate turn of events, PayFast, the first-ever online payment gateway accepting Bitcoin (BTC) in South Africa, called time on BTC payments citing fundamental technical issues in the blockchain and a hitch in user-friendliness.
2019-7-14 19:46 | |
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Wala went from serving customers in Uganda to shuttering its payments app. Here's what sources say happened.
2019-7-11 16:00 | |
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Orania, also referred to as an Afrikaner town, found in South Africa has recently considered the likes of cryptocurrencies reports CCN. Said town is home to about 9,000 residents all of whom are White settlers with supposed, goals of wanting a better place for their children, establishing a healthy environment to raise their children and […]
2019-6-10 03:57 | |
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The youth in Lagos are turning to Bitcoin solutions as recently graduated freelancers and mid-level employees embrace cryptocurrency payments
2019-4-15 03:12 | |
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South Africa Set To Welcome Crypto-Assets To Its Native Retail Market Thanks To PundiX And DoshEX As things stand, there currently exist millions of individuals within South Africa who still do not have access to basic banking services or even a tangible financial network that can allow them to facilitate value transfers (using older technologies […]
2019-4-6 21:28 | |
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A South African crypto exchange has partnered with an international blockchain-based payment processing firm. The merger between DoshEx and PundiX will allow early cryptocurrency adopters to spend their holdings in real-world locations in South Africa.
2019-4-6 00:00 | |
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Blockstream has launched its satellite messaging application programming interface (API) on mainnet. Essentially, this means users can now broadcast data via the company’s satellite network and pay with Lightning payments.
2019-3-14 22:15 | |
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Blockstream has launched its satellite messaging application programming interface (API) on mainnet. Essentially, this means users can now broadcast data via the company’s satellite network and pay with Lightning payments.
2019-3-14 22:15 | |
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The challenge of making and receiving payments in Africa has been widely documented. The continent has the world’s highest remittance fees, and payments between different countries aren’t any easier.
2019-3-5 22:55 | |
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South Africa’s Standard Bank Set To Launch Blockchain Technology-Powered Payments System In a bid to facilitate overseas foreign exchanges for its institutional clients in a super fast and cost-efficient manner, Standard Bank of South Africa is making active plans to launch own private permissioned distributed ledger technology (DLT) based payments system, reports Finextra on February […]
2019-3-1 23:55 | |
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On February 21, 2019, peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace Paxful announced a partnership with trading platform BitMart for the purpose of vastly increasing the latter’s liquidity and scalability.
2019-2-23 00:36 | |
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HashCash Consultants, a California-based distributed ledger technology (DLT) project focused on creating blockchain-based solutions that enable enterprises to move assets and settle payments seamlessly across borders, is now live in South Africa, according to a press release from January 7, 2018.
2019-1-10 23:00 | |
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Blockstream CSO Says New Satellite Allows For Bitcoin Transactions Without Internet And Supports LN The blockchain company Blockstream has leased the fifth satellite a few days ago. The main intention is to broadcast the Bitcoin blockchain to the Asia Pacific Region.
2018-12-21 20:58 | |
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While most crypto investors are shooting for the moon, Blockstream is focused on things a bit closer to Earth: in the outermost layer of its atmosphere, to be exact.
2018-12-18 00:31 | |
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Kenyan health services provider Health Land Spa has started taking BTC and other cryptocurrencies as a means of payment with a view to increasing accountability and averting losses. Across East Africa, cryptocurrency acceptance is on the rise, with at least two restaurants in Uganda and Kenya selling food for virtual currencies.
2018-12-11 07:50 | |
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Sompo And BTC Africa Team Up In Efforts To Improve Cross-Border Payments Sompo Holdings is considered to be one of the top three insurers in the entire nation of Japan, which makes each of their partnerships significant.
2018-11-13 01:49 | |
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South Africa is the most cryptocurrency-friendly country in Africa, according to the 2018 World Payments Report by French banking group BNB Paribas and IT company Capgemini. Compared to other major economies on the continent, South Africa has allowed digital currency-based payments, trades and investments to flourish almost unhindered.
2018-10-19 08:59 | |
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Centbee of South Africa has announced the launch of its bitcoin cash wallet app in beta, as adoption continues to grow in Africa and elsewhere around the world. Some shops in Kenya already accept bitcoin cash for purchases.
2018-10-4 20:50 | |
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Indonesian cryptocurrency and payments company Pundix has introduced a point of sale terminal at a shop in Nigeria, allowing people in the West African country to make purchases using cryptocurrency, including bitcoin.
2018-9-30 01:30 | |
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Bitnovo has launched support for bitcoin cash (BCH). Starting September 27, users of Bitcard and N26 account, both bank-free product offerings from the Spanish cryptocurrency trading platform, will be able to replenish their cards or accounts with BCH.
2018-9-27 20:35 | |
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The Japan-based SBI Remit has recently announced its collaboration with BitPesa for utilizing the latter’s digital treasury management solution to enable convenient transactions between Japanese merchants and African countries.
2018-9-27 15:14 | |
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SBI Remit and BitPesa have partnered to enable faster and cheaper money transactions between Japan and Africa using the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain.
2018-9-26 19:09 | |
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After successfully trialing blockchain-based payments for wholesale interbank settlement, South Africa’s central bank has scooped up the award for Best Distributed Ledger Initiative at Central Banking’s “FinTech RegTech Global Awards 2018.
2018-9-11 00:00 | |
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Eastads Marketplace & Credits aims to disrupt the old system of buying and selling in Nigeria and Africa. We built a crypto powered marketplace for the largest market in Africa and after ICO we will develop our African Marketplace also integrated with blockchain payments.
2018-9-3 14:33 | |
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Before Bitcoin was regarded as the hot new investment on the block (pun intended), the idea of decentralized payments… The post Top Cryptocurrency Solutions for the Middle East and Africa appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2018-8-27 14:00 | |
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Blockchain-based payments processor Ripple, announced its partnership with pop star icon Madonna for endorsing a fundraiser in Malawi, Africa. This post was written in collaboration with Aliesha Duffin.
2018-8-9 04:00 | |
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There are over 600 million Africans living without electricity despite an abundance of sunshine and hundreds of thousands of solar projects on the drawing board.
2018-7-17 17:41 | |
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Imagine what you would do if every penny you owned became worthless. That’s the subject of “Starting from Scratch,” a documentary short currently making the rounds on YouTube and Twitter. The seventeen-minute film follows the introduction of Kuvacash, a new crypto payments platform, to Zimbabwe, a country still reeling from hyperinflation and revolution.
2018-7-2 14:19 | |
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Today, Dash, the top digital currency for payments, in collaboration with Frame 48, a creative collective specializing in film and commercial production, has announced the launch of Starting From Scratch, a documentary centered on how blockchain technology and digital currency can help improve the chaotic economic environment in Zimbabwe. The documentary focuses specifically on Kuvacash, […]
2018-6-26 15:30 | |
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Today’s Bitcoin in Brief features several examples of digital coins entering all spheres of life. A leading German auto manufacturer has revealed its cars may soon be fitted with onboard cryptocurrency wallets.
2018-6-16 15:36 | |
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