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Polygon joins Africa Money and Defi Summit, Ghana 2022

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

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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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Rapid Rise of Fraud is Fuelling Interest in Liveness Detection Tech

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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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Meta opens applications for the AR/VR Africa Metathon

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Meta has announced that applications for the AR/VR Africa Metathon in partnership with Imisi 3D and BlackRhino VR are now open. The AR/VR Africa Metathon is a series of programmes and activations under the Meta global XR fund aimed at supporting African XR talents to build innovative solutions that demonstrate various use cases of the…

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Liquid Intelligent Technologies expands operations to Mkushi

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Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business of Cassava Technologies in Zambia, is expanding its operations to Central Province by launching its first office in Mkushi. This launch will bring high-speed connectivity and a suite of intelligent technologies to the district for the first time. With the opening of this new branch in the country, the pan-African…

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Workpay: Hiring Remote African Teams Gives You an Advantage

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original post by Workpay The world of work has tremendously changed in recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the global labour market in 2020, and although it had negative consequences in the short term, it also accelerated the disruption of technology at work. As a result, more companies are hiring teams across the world. African…

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The Growth of Investment In African Crypto-Based Startups

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The cryptocurrency space has become a hotbed for investments of all kinds. From regular people hedging against inflation by buying Bitcoin to major investors betting on the future of finance by providing capital for startups, a lot of money is pouring into crypto. The African continent has had its fair share of investments into new…

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Fintech VC Firm QED Investors Makes Investment in TeamApt

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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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Exploring Fintech For Resilience

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Panel Session on Exploring Fintech for Resilience at the Africa Money and DeFi Summit, part of Africa Tech Summit Nairobi 2022. The panelists discuss the impact FinTech has had on the climate risks faced by households and small businesses across the continent, and what affordable and accessible solutions are available for these vulnerable communities. Panelists...
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Neo Banking for Africa

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Panel Session at the Africa Money and DeFi Summit, part of Africa Tech Summit Nairobi 2022. Panelists discuss insights and discussions around the rise of Neo banks and how technology is digitizing and disrupting the traditional banking system in Africa. Panelists: Tobi Amira – COO – TeamApt Inc. Dan Tumuramye – Country Director – Uganda...
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