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Polygon joins Africa Money and Defi Summit, Ghana 2022

Polygon is the leading blockchain development platform, offering scalable, affordable, secure, and sustainable blockchains for Web3. Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to major scaling solutions including L2 (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid, stand-alone, and enterprise chains, and data availability. Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 19,000+ decentralized applications hosted,…

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VerifyMe unveils new digital Identity and consumer analytics solution for businesses

Leading identity verification and e-KYC technology company, VerifyMe Nigeria, has unveiled QoreID, a dedicated digital identity, and analytics solution for B2B.  QoreID will provide API infrastructure and data services that connect businesses to people and their information across Africa and remain a VerifyMe Nigeria company. Targeted at the medium and enterprise business segment, QoreID provides…

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What Does Ethereum’s Transition to PoS Mean for Polygon

Originally published by Polygon With Ethereum’s switch to proof of stake (PoS) slated for mid-September, Polygon thought it would be appropriate to take a moment and look around, to admire how far Web3 has come. Now is a time to celebrate the builders and dreamers who’ve worked relentlessly on the margins to summon a more…

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Zapper partners Stitch to offer one-click payments in South Africa

Zapper, a South African mobile payments company has partnered with payments and data API fintech Stitch (via LinkPay—a one-click payments product) to enable Zapper users to make instant electronic funds transfer (ETF) payments with a click. Zapper was one of the first players in South Africa’s mobile payments market and today enables merchants of all…

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Flutterwave Secures Switching and Processing License

The Central Bank of Nigeria has granted Flutterwave, an African payments technology company a Switching and Processing License (CBN)—widely regarded as CBN’s most valuable payments processing license. This license allows Flutterwave to offer customers transaction switching and card processing services. Others include non-bank acquiring, agency banking, and payment gateway services.  The Switching and Processing license allows…

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Rapid Rise of Fraud is Fuelling Interest in Liveness Detection Tech

Article by YouVerify Digital onboarding and passwordless authentication have become widely adopted, especially with the advancement of online transaction technology. However, it has also come with the downside of an increase in fraud. Despite there being KYC and AML measures, fraudsters are coming up with creative ways to beat the system, causing a rise in…

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Nigeria: Pastel has raised $5.5M in its SEED round

Nigeria’s Pastel, formerly Sabi Cash, has raised $5.5M in a SEED round led by TLcom Capital with participation from Global Founders Capital (GFC), Golden Palm Investments, DFS Labs, Ulu Ventures, Plug and Play, and SOMA Capital. Founded by Abuzar Royesh, Olamide Oladeji, and Izunna Okonkwo, Pastel is on a mission to build digital tools to…

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Yellow Card announces new payment feature – Yellow Pay

Yellow Card Financial is proud to announce its new payment feature – Yellow Pay. This innovative solution will make it easier for customers to send and receive money through the Yellow Card crypto exchange platform, without any extra charges, instantly all from the comfort of their home. Oparinde Babatunde, Yellow Card Director of Operations, says one…

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Fintech VC Firm QED Investors Makes Investment in TeamApt

TeamApt, a Nigerian payment platform, has just completed a financing round and brought onboard fintech specialists, QED Investors. With almost $5 billion assets under management, QED is a premier VC in the fintech space. They have invested in 27 unicorns over more than 180 portfolio companies across 14 countries. TeamApt is its first investment in…

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Zeepay announces Series A.5 raise of USD10 million

Zeepay, a cross-border payments company operating as a challenger mobile money company has announced a raise of USD 10 million. The medium-term debt raise, which forms part of its A.5 series, comes to support Zeepay in a bid to augment its fast-growing remittance to wallet business. The raise was led by Symbiotics BV with USD…

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