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RAKBANK Partners With Mastercard For Commercial Card Solutions

RAKBANK Partners With Mastercard For Commercial Card Solutions
RAKBANK Partners With Mastercard For Commercial Card Solutions
January 22, 2020  |  B2B Payments

National bank RAKBANK, headquartered in the emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates, has teamed up with Mastercard to introduce corporate payment solutions,...

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Nigeria’s Paga Buys Software Firm Apposit For Global Expansion
Nigeria’s Paga Buys Software Firm Apposit For Global Expansion
January 22, 2020  |  International

Nigerian digital payments startup Paga is expanding its operations with the acquisition of Apposit, a software development startup based in Ethiopia, as reported on Wednesday...

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Top News In Payments: More Companies Ponder Malaysia Banking Application; Vodafone Bails On Libra
Top News In Payments: More Companies Ponder Malaysia Banking Application; Vodafone Bails On Libra
January 22, 2020  |  News

In today’s top news, Grab, Razer, AirAsia and CIMB join other companies considering applying for one of five digital banking licenses in Malaysia, and Vodafone...

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Uber CEO Says Firm Leads In Race To Ridesharing Profitability
Uber CEO Says Firm Leads In Race To Ridesharing Profitability
January 22, 2020  |  Ridesharing

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said his company has the best chance of being profitable out of all of the ride-hailing competitors out there, according to...

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Amazon Music Hits 55M Streaming Subscribers
Amazon Music Hits 55M Streaming Subscribers
January 22, 2020  |  Amazon Entertainment

Amazon Music has been steadily gaining in popularity despite only being around since 2016, a full two years after Apple debuted its own music service....

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Jumia Counting On Services To Rebound From 70 Pct. Shares Drop
Jumia Counting On Services To Rebound From 70 Pct. Shares Drop
January 22, 2020  |  International

African unicorn Jumia, the first technology startup in Africa to list on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is focused on becoming profitable after a...

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Study: Tech Unicorns Overvalued By Nearly 50 Percent
Study: Tech Unicorns Overvalued By Nearly 50 Percent
January 22, 2020  |  IPO

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Eurazeo Taps Citi, Evercore To Unload Planet Payments Unit
Eurazeo Taps Citi, Evercore To Unload Planet Payments Unit
January 22, 2020  |  International

French buyout fund Eurazeo has enlisted the help of Citigroup and Evercore to sell its payments enterprise Planet, Reuters reported on Wednesday (Jan. 22), citing three...

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Building The Beard Trend Into A Successful eCommerce Portal 
Building The Beard Trend Into A Successful eCommerce Portal 
January 22, 2020  |  Retail

After several decades out of favor, with the dawning of the 21st century and especially in the 2010s, beards began to make a big comeback....

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