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Sanlam Group sponsors Africa's first G20 summit

Sanlam Group sponsors Africa's first G20 summit

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How Ninety One is closing Africa’s infrastructure gap

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2024 AABLA Business Leader of the year: African Bank's CEO, Kennedy G Bungane

2024 AABLA Business Leader of the year: African Bank's CEO, Kennedy G Bungane

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Pedestrians walk outside the Safaricom mobile phone customer care centre during the launch of its 5G internet service in the central business district of Nairobi, Kenya, 27 October 2022. Reuters/Monicah Mwangi/File Photo

Kenya's Safaricom raises $117m with local sustainability-linked loan

25 Sep 2024

Source: Brics Competition Law and Policy Centre.

Brics and China unite for a groundbreaking commodities exchange system

19 Sep 2024

PayRetailers expands further into Africa

PayRetailers expands further into Africa

18 Sep 2024

Source: Supplied. Mathieu Coquillon, co-founder and director at Mama Money.

Mama Money card simplifies banking with WhatsApp integration

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Inaugural Supply Chain Business Forum and Exhibition

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IMF approves over $900m to support Tanzania budget, climate change fight

Kanishka Singh 21 Jun 2024

Image supplied. Last year's African Banker Award. the African Banker magazine’s African Banker Awards nominees have been announced for this year

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2,500 Kenyan fashion creators poised to enter global markets

2,500 Kenyan fashion creators poised to enter global markets

2 May 2024

A man poses with a handful of Zimbabwean dollars at a bank in central Harare, 15 June 2015. Zimbabweans began exchanging old notes of local dollars for US dollars, as President Robert Mugabe's government seeks to officially bury the worthless currency. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo

Zimbabwe launches gold-backed currency to replace battered local dollar

Nyasha Chingono 5 Apr 2024

A client uses an automated teller machine (ATM) at the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 31 July 2019. Reuters/Maheder Haileselassie Tadese/File Photo

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia recovers $11m lost in system glitch

Dawit Endeshaw and Hereward Holland 27 Mar 2024

Source: © 123rf For the first time journalists can now submit entries in any category of the Sanlam Group Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism

Sanlam Group Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism open for entries

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#COP28: Zambia's first green bond to be issued by year-end by Copperbelt Energy Corp

Chris Mfula 6 Dec 2023

Credit Suisse ends 'tuna bond' dispute with shipbuilder Privinvest

Sam Tobin and Manuel Mucari 8 Nov 2023

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Zimbabwe to take 30% of carbon credit revenue

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Digital advertising group Aleph launches payment unit

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Kenya suspends crypto project Worldcoin over safety concerns

Humphrey Malalo 3 Aug 2023

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George Obulutsa 23 Jun 2023

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Binance issues cease and desist notice to "Binance Nigeria Limited"

Gursimran Kaur 19 Jun 2023

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Mastercard and Naps collaborate to fuel innovation in Morocco's digital payments realm

2 Jun 2023

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Momentum Metropolitan pioneers global adoption of cutting-edge fintech software

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Digital banking: Kenya welcomes Fingo Africa

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Source: Reuters. Japan's vice minister of finance for international affairs, Masato Kanda.

G7 to discuss digital currency standards, crypto regulation

Leika Kihara 12 Apr 2023

Source: Supplied. Nombuso Gumede, the chief operating officer at MpiloTech.

MpiloTech reports 2 new executive appointments

29 Mar 2023

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Nearly 70% of consumer payments to be instant by 2027

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Karen Nadasen, CEO of PayU South Africa and the chair of the Ecommerce Forum of South Africa. Source: Supplied

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Karen Nadasen 19 Jan 2023

Source: Supplied. Kent Marais, head of Platform Domain at Standard Bank.

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