Small businesses starting up today may never interact with a conventional bank. By logging into their e-commerce or accounting platform, they can open a deposit account, order a debit card, and meet most of their financing needs.
Category: Mobile & Telecoms
Reshaping Retail Banks: Enhancing Banking for the Next Digital Age
The most direct path to success is to target profit pools in specific businesses of the universal banking model—daily banking (deposit accounts, payments, and credit cards), navigating life events (with complex lending products), or building and protecting wealth—where the bank can define and deliver a value proposition that can win in our new digital age.
Expert: Fintech Will Determine the Powerhouse Economies of Next 10 Years
Fintech will determine which countries will become powerhouse economies of the next decade, affirms the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory, asset management and fintech organisations.
Mobile Operators See Major Opportunity in Private Cellular Networks
After several years of chasing the opportunity to offer private cellular networks to businesses and public sector organisations, mobile operators are reporting positive traction, says GlobalData.
Quest Digital Finance Connects the Unbanked to Formal Credit Systems
Kampala, Uganda//- Uganda is home to 25 commercial banks, four microfinance deposit-taking institutions (MDIs), three credit institutions and more than 300 non-deposit-taking microfinance institutions (MFIs).
MTN Ghana Continues to Boost Local Economies
MTN Ghana is investing in the communities it operates by supporting local businesses to take part in the value chain of the leading telecom company in the country.
American Tower, Airtel Africa Announce Strategic Partnership
Johannesburg, South Africa//– American Tower Corporation’s (American Tower) African operations (ATC Africa) and Airtel Africa plc (Airtel Africa, or the Group) today announced that they have entered into a multi-year, multi-product agreement, leveraging ATC Africa’s vast portfolio of communications sites and new site and product development capabilities across its footprint in Kenya, Niger, Nigeria and […]
Future Digital Award Winners Announced for Fintech & Payments 2022
Hampshire, UK//-It is with great pleasure that Juniper Research announces the 2022 winners of the Future Digital Awards for Fintech & Payments.
Ghana’s Total Mobile Money Transactions Drop By 2% Year-on-year
Accra, Ghana//-Ghana’s total Mobile Money transactions as of August 2022 compared to the same period in 2021 fell by ¢13.3 billion, about 2.02%, the latest Summary of Financial and Economic Data by the Bank of Ghana has revealed.
Ghana’s Edmund Fianko Elected ITU Radio Regulations Board Member
Acting Director of Engineering at the National Communications Authority (NCA), Rev. Edmund Yirenkyi Fianko has been elected as one of three Africa Regional Directors of the International Telecommunications Union’s Radio Regulations Board (RRB) at the ongoing ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Bucharest, Romania.