Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent. At about 30.3 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20% of its land area. With 1.2 billion people as of 2016, it accounts for about 16% of the world's human population.

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How Mastercard Wants To Help Billions Find Power In Payments

How Mastercard Wants To Help Billions Find Power In Payments
How Mastercard Wants To Help Billions Find Power In Payments
February 26, 2018  |  Mastercard

Most of the world doesn’t think much about flipping on the lights. In fact, one favored metaphor for describing something easy is comparing it to “flipping a switch.”...

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PEPFAR And Mastercard Team To Fight AIDS In Africa
PEPFAR And Mastercard Team To Fight AIDS In Africa
September 19, 2017  |  International

On Monday (Sept. 18), during the 2017 Concordia Annual Summit, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and Mastercard announced a new public-private...

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B2B Marketplace Releaf Helps African Businesses Network
B2B Marketplace Releaf Helps African Businesses Network
August 18, 2017  |  B2B Payments

Releaf is a new B2B marketplace that aims to help African businesses network and find partners they can trust. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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The Sky’s The Limit For Kenyan Online Marketplace Sky.Garden
The Sky’s The Limit For Kenyan Online Marketplace Sky.Garden
August 14, 2017  |  Retail

Africa is getting its own version of Amazon. Or at least, Nairobi, Kenya, is, with potential to one day see this marketplace representing all major...

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Flutterwave Lands More Than $40M In VC Funding To Expand
Flutterwave Lands More Than $40M In VC Funding To Expand
August 03, 2017  |  Investments

Flutterwave, the FinTech startup, announced news on Wednesday (Aug. 2) that it has raised more than $10 million in a Series A venture capital (VC)...

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Mastercard Gets Vocal on VocaLink, Kroger, Masterpass
Mastercard Gets Vocal on VocaLink, Kroger, Masterpass
July 27, 2017  |  Earnings

A rise in consumer spending, broad-based across several geographies, helped Mastercard beat Wall Street estimates for the second quarter. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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Sub-Saharan Africa Driving Mobile Money Market
Sub-Saharan Africa Driving Mobile Money Market
July 13, 2017  |  International

More than half the world’s mobile money deployments are coming from a perhaps unexpected source: Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet in a way, that balance makes sense....

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Visa And Interswitch Partner To Speed Up Mobile Payments
Visa And Interswitch Partner To Speed Up Mobile Payments
July 03, 2017  |  VISA

Visa, the credit card company, and Interswitch, Africa’s integrated payments and transaction solutions company, announced news on Friday (June 30) that they will partner to...

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Quisk, Network International Set To Launch New Digital Payment Solution In Middle East
Quisk, Network International Set To Launch New Digital Payment Solution In Middle East
June 15, 2017  |  Digital Payments

Quisk Inc., a global provider of digital payment services and solutions located in Silicon Valley, announced that it will soon launch a new digital payment...

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