Terra Biga: How a Burkina Faso Startup Is Digitising African Solidarity
Technology

Terra Biga: How a Burkina Faso Startup Is Digitising African Solidarity

After a banking career in Europe, Batiana Nacro returned home to turn community tontines into a transparent mobile-money...

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BEAC Launches One Interoperable QR Code to Accelerate Digital Payments Across CEMAC
Technology

BEAC Launches One Interoperable QR Code to Accelerate Digital Payments Across CEMAC

The Central African central bank has unveiled a shared QR payment standard with GIMAC and plans 120,000 merchant codes i...

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First Africa-Wide Financial Stability Report Maps a $4 Trillion System Dominated by Banks and Powered by Mobile Money
Economy

First Africa-Wide Financial Stability Report Maps a $4 Trillion System Dominated by Banks and Powered by Mobile Money

Egypt’s central bank, leading a coalition of 46 nations, published the continent’s maiden macro-financial stability repo...

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