Financial Inclusion
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Banking and Payments
Digital credit scoring is paving the way to more affordable microloans in East Africa – Research
More than 2.5 billion people around the world – many of them in Africa – lack formal identification that enables…
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Banking and Payments
Mastercard, FSD Uganda enter partnership to strengthen Financial Inclusion with Digital Financial Solutions
Mastercard and FSD (Financial Sector Deepening) Uganda have entered into a memorandum of understanding with a goal of partnering to…
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Mobile Payments
Uganda ranked 4th in Brookings Global Financial and Digital Inclusion Report 2017
Uganda scored a 78 per cent score, coming hot after South Africa and Columbia who also scored same percentage from…
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Banking and Payments
DIAA study reveal Mobile Money users save 19,329,887 million hours a month
A recent study by Digital Impact Awards Africa (DIAA) has revealed that at least 5,000,000 regular users of mobile financial services in…
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Features
World Bank Group, ITU and CPMI unveil Financial Inclusion Global Initiative
A new global programme to advance research in digital finance and accelerate digital financial inclusion in developing countries, the Financial Inclusion…
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Banking and Payments
Centenary Bank, MasterCard Announce Partnership for Rollout of Digital Payment Solutions
Centenary Bank and Mastercard have today announced a multipronged approach to digitising Uganda’s economy in support of the National Financial Inclusion…
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Banking and Payments
World Bank Partnered With GSMA To Bring Financial Services To Over 1 Billion People
The World Bank Group on Tuesday partnered with GSMA to help achieve Universal Financial Access (UFA) by the year 2020. The GSMA…
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News
Rwandan Telecom Operator Launches Mobile Micro-Loans Service
Rwanda local telecom operator, Tigo has launched a pilot phase of their mobile financial services, TigoNshoboza Loan Service’, a platform…
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Business
Opinion: Top predictions for FinTech & Mobile Money in Uganda in 2017
2016 perhaps saw the biggest jump in Mobile Money use cases ever since the service started gaining popularity in the…
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Business
Jumia to launch its own 3rd party online payments solution called Jumia Pay
First they merged all AIG subsidiaries into one big Jumia brand, and now, it seems like the next step in…
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