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TikTok Trials eCommerce Offering

TikTok Trials eCommerce Offering
TikTok Trials eCommerce Offering
July 01, 2022  |  Social Commerce

TikTok is testing a feed set apart for shopping in a bid to increase revenues for the company’s corporate parent, ByteDance, according to a TechCrunch...

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Airtel Africa Launches Smartcash Payment Service Bank
Airtel Africa Launches Smartcash Payment Service Bank
July 01, 2022  |  Banking

Airtel Africa, a multinational company that provides telecommunications and mobile money services in 14 countries in Africa, primarily in East, Central and West Africa, officially...

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Careem Makes Second Acquisition This Week With Denarii
Careem Makes Second Acquisition This Week With Denarii
July 01, 2022  |  Partnerships

Ride hailing, payments and food delivery platform Careem picked up money transfer firm Denarii for undisclosed terms, its second acquisition this week, according to a...

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GoCardless Secures Goes Open Banking With Nordigen Buy
GoCardless Secures Goes Open Banking With Nordigen Buy
July 01, 2022  |  Partnerships

Digital payment solution GoCardless is to acquire Nordigen, an open banking data provider. In merging, the companies connect the two pillars of open banking: account-to-account...

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EMEA Daily: Airtel Africa Launches SmartCash Payment Service Bank; Mollie and xentral Announce Collaboration
EMEA Daily: Airtel Africa Launches SmartCash Payment Service Bank; Mollie and xentral Announce Collaboration
July 01, 2022  |  Europe

In today’s EMEA daily news, Airtel Africa unveils SmartCash Payment Service Bank, its newest subsidiary. GoCardless announces its acquisition of Nordigen and the expansion of...

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Payment Service Provider Mollie, Xentral Partner on eCommerce Payments
Payment Service Provider Mollie, Xentral Partner on eCommerce Payments
July 01, 2022  |  Partnerships

Dutch payment service provider Mollie’s services will be integrated into German enterprise resources planning platform provider xentral’s offerings under a collaboration launched today and effective...

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EU Commission Finds Ally in EU Banking Regulator on Open Finance
EU Commission Finds Ally in EU Banking Regulator on Open Finance
July 01, 2022  |  Legal & Regulation

The European Commission (EC) will close a consultation on Tuesday (July 5) about open finance in what can be seen as a first step to...

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Weekly TechREG EMEA: EU Agrees on Crypto Regulation With Strict Controls on Stablecoins; EU Banking Regulator Proposes Standard APIs To Boost Open Banking 
Weekly TechREG EMEA: EU Agrees on Crypto Regulation With Strict Controls on Stablecoins; EU Banking...
July 01, 2022  |  Legal & Regulation

This week the most notorious development in the TechREG space is the agreement reached by EU institutions on the scope of the regulation that will...

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