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
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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