Kenya plans to switch its base currency to bitcoin
The central bank governor believes that bitcoin could actually help to fight the depreciating shilling...
Category : Banking
Ecobank Transitional appoints Herve S. Assah as non-executive director
Mr Herve S. Assah has served in senior positions for more than two decades at the World Bank and has been managing partner of Aequaria Capital...
American Express, Access Bank join forces in Nigeria
The partnership will also allow American Express cardholders to use their cards across merchant locations across the country...
Kenya seeks to tighten regulatory reign over digital payments
t Safaricom controls 98% of the country’s mobile money market, while Airtel Money and other money providers account for just 1.2%...
Ahli United Bank: A prominent community-based role in 2020
The bank has has continued its efforts in supporting the community through its unique corporate social responsibility programme...
Surge in Kenya’s mobile money impacts banks
It is reported that nearly 20.5 million people use M-Pesa...
BTG Pactual launches new retail bank BTG+
The launch is in collaboration with Feedzai, a leading fintech platform that strengthens the bank’s monitoring of financial transactions...
StanChart and Bukalapak to launch digital banking services
The partnership aims to bring innovation in financial and ecommerce services...
Be Group and VPBank join hands to roll out digital
Cake can be accessed through Be’s interface and will allow users to open a banking account online in two minutes...
Interest rate cut below zero could support UK’s recovery: BoE
A policymaker states that pushing the interest rate would be good for growth...