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Visa is partnering with Flocash to introduce Flostore to help small businesses across Africa accept digital payments. It will also allow the businesses to manage supplies and access financial services across Africa. The Flostore solution consists of an integration of the Visa digital wallet and Flocash's pan-African payment platform.
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Flapmax is launching Fast Accelerator, a startup incubation program in partnership with Microsoft to help strengthen and scale Africa's digital ecosystem. The accelerator program targets startups building cloud and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled technology products and services. It is currently accepting applications from entrepreneurs and innovators to participate in the first cohort. The
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Fintech company Accelerex is set to offer Ghanaian Customers more Digital Payment Options with the introduction of RexPay and RexRetail. This comes after the company recently received an enhanced Payment Service Provider (PSP) licence from the Bank of Ghana (BoG). As well as the ISO 27001:2013 and PCI-DSS certifications. Enabling
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Africa-focused and early-stage venture capital firm GOODsoil VC announces it is investing nine hundred and forty thousand US dollars as seed capital in Ghanaian fintech company Zeepay. This part of the company's mission to drive financial inclusion across the African continent. Firstly, by leading the global surge of investments into
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Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Square, Inc. will be the closing keynote speaker at this years' Africa Fintech Summit 2020. The virtual summit will take place from the 9th to the 12th of November 2020. With Jack speaking on the 12th. His closing keynote will
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Nokwary Technologies are winners of the 2020 Ecobank Fintech Challenge hosted by the Ecobank Group. The finals of the Ecobank Fintech Challenge took place virtually and streamed live from Accra, Ghana. Nokwary Technologies, edged out the rest of the finalists to emerge the winner of the competition. The first and second
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