Nigeria

Liquidity Management Key to Taming FX Volatility in Emerging Markets
Liquidity Management Key to Taming FX Volatility in Emerging Markets
November 20, 2023  |  Cross-border Payments

Compared to the global standard of five to six hubs, moving money between Nigeria and China or Singapore can require navigating through up to 16...

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Nigeria to Amend eNaira Model to Promote CBDC Use
Nigeria to Amend eNaira Model to Promote CBDC Use
July 26, 2023  |  CBDC

Nigeria’s central bank wants more citizens to use its digital currency. To that end, the bank’s acting governor, Folashodun Adebisi Shonubi, tweeted Wednesday (July 26) that the Central...

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Flutterwave Launches Tuition to Pay School Fees in Local Currencies
Flutterwave Launches Tuition to Pay School Fees in Local Currencies
July 11, 2023  |  Payment Methods

Flutterwave has launched a product to help African students pay school fees when studying abroad and at home. The new payment product, Tuition, will enable African users...

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How Digital Innovation Is Unifying Africa’s Fragmented Payments Landscape
How Digital Innovation Is Unifying Africa’s Fragmented Payments Landscape
July 06, 2023  |  Digital Payments

In 2019, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it was time to simplify money movement and make sending money to someone as easy as sending a...

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Regulator: Binance Nigeria Operations in Country Are Illegal
Regulator: Binance Nigeria Operations in Country Are Illegal
June 11, 2023  |  Cryptocurrency

Nigeria’s securities regulator says a company called Binance Nigeria Limited is operating illegally in the country. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, tells PYMNTS this...

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Peru and Pakistan Expect Massive Real-Time Payments Growth by 2027
Peru and Pakistan Expect Massive Real-Time Payments Growth by 2027
June 01, 2023  |  Real-Time Payments

Each country implementing real-time payment methods has to balance various factors, including its banked population, the current favored payment schemes of the populace and penetration...

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Sabi Raises $38 Million for B2B Marketplace Serving African Retailers
Sabi Raises $38 Million for B2B Marketplace Serving African Retailers
May 19, 2023  |  Investments

Nigeria-based B2B eCommerce firm Sabi has raised $38 million in Series B funding. This funding round values the company at $300 million, TechCrunch reported Friday (May 19). Sabi...

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Nigerian Mobile Companies Block Banks From Text Service Over Unpaid Bill
Nigerian Mobile Companies Block Banks From Text Service Over Unpaid Bill
May 15, 2023  |  Mobile Payments

Nigerian mobile companies are reportedly halting text services to banks over a $259 million bill.  The firms are set to disconnect the Unstructured Supplementary Service...

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Nomba Raises $30 Million for ‘Bespoke’ Payment Solutions
Nomba Raises $30 Million for ‘Bespoke’ Payment Solutions
May 02, 2023  |  Payments As A Service

Nigeria’s Nomba has raised $30 million to move payments from the “generic” to the specific. “Despite the growth in digital payments across Africa, most businesses...

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