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hibaerrai

Fawry Microfinance to receive 310M loan for expansion - Business Today - 1 views

  • Fawry subsidiary Fawry Microfinance will receive a combined 310 million through loan and credit facilities with the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund (EAEF) and Banque Misr respectively. The ordinary general assembly of Fawry for e-payments has approved a EGP 160 million loan between Fawry Microfinance and the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund. They also approved a financing offer by Banque Misr, a board member and shareholder, which would grant Fawry credit facilities with an authorized limit of EGP 150 million. EAEF owns a 9.7 percent stake in Fawry while Banque Misr owns 6.3 percent.
    • hibaerrai
       
      Fawry microfinance capital has increased in favor of old shareholders. The fintech's portfolio increased to about 453M closer to the company's goal 500M before the end of 2021, and that's good news for Fawry.
mehdibella

"Fawry" took over "Waffarha" shares | Fawry - 0 views

  • Fawry, Egypt’s first and largest E-payment company in the Egyptian market signed an agreement to acquire a non-controlling interest in “Waffarha” is a platform that provides various offers and discount vouchers for B2B and B2C through its website and APPs on mobile devices.Tarek Magdy, CEO of Waffarha, said: “Waffarha” was launched 6 years ago as the only platform that provides offers ranging from 50% for B2B and B2C, with more than 1 million social media followers and more than 1000 commercial series.”And he pointed out that “Waffarha” provides many services as (restaurants, cafes, travel, health and beauty, entertainment, etc.). There are 250 thousand customers who have saved nearly 50 million EGP after using “Waffarha”. All offers starting from 50% include taxes and services, and can be paid in different ways by choosing “Fawry Pay” service, which allows customers to pay cash in more than 90 thousand stores of Fawry or by banks (credit cards or direct debit). In addition to paying with “PayPal” through Fawry Pay” Magdy added: “Waffarha” aims to reach its dealings to 150 million Egyptian pounds by 2020″.
    • kaoutarchennoufi
       
      Fawry acquired WAFFARHA shares in order to correctly respond the requirements of its customers and businesses (Banks, mobile companies...) and provide them with loyalty programs, points systems ... in different fields. Since WAFFARHA was providing different services such as travel, health and beauty, restaurants... Fawry is alwaysmaking new investments in order to improve its customers and businesses journey and make it memorable.
  • Fawry, Egypt’s first and largest E-payment company in the Egyptian market signed an agreement to acquire a non-controlling interest in “Waffarha” is a platform that provides various offers and discount vouchers for B2B and B2C through its website and APPs on mobile devices.
  • “Fawry” took over “Waffarha” shares | Fawry
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  • Tarek Magdy, CEO of Waffarha, said: “Waffarha” was launched 6 years ago as the only platform that provides offers ranging from 50% for B2B and B2C, with more than 1 million social media followers and more than 1000 commercial series.”
  • And he pointed out that “Waffarha” provides many services as (restaurants, cafes, travel, health and beauty, entertainment, etc.). There are 250 thousand customers who have saved nearly 50 million EGP after using “Waffarha”. All offers starting from 50% include taxes and services, and can be paid in different ways by choosing “Fawry Pay” service, which allows customers to pay cash in more than 90 thousand stores of Fawry or by banks (credit cards or direct debit). In addition to paying with “PayPal” through Fawry Pay”
aymanelmamoun

Kenyan Insure Tech launches E-Commerce Platform For Insurance Sector Players - 0 views

  • Bismart, a Kenyan insure-tech company has unveiled an online e-commerce platform that will enable insurance companies, brokers, agents to connect with their customers end- to- end.
aymanelmamoun

Kenyan insure-tech company Bismart unveils e-commerce platform | AFRICA INC. MAGAZINE - 0 views

  • Bismart, a Kenyan insure-tech company has unveiled an online e-commerce platform that will enable insurance companies, brokers and agents to connect with their customer’s end- to- end. Known as Pamsmart, the cloud-based platform will allow different players to create products relevant to specific target group and businesses.
    • aymanelmamoun
       
      The platform also easily integrates with existing insurance digital platforms and eliminates the need for cumbersome insurance paperwork.
hibaerrai

WorldRemit Partners with Palawan Pawnshop in the Philippines to Let Filipinos Pick Up C... - 0 views

  • WorldRemit is a leading digital cross-border payments business. We disrupted an industry previously dominated by offline legacy players by taking international money transfers online—making them safer, faster, and lower-cost. We currently send from 50 to 150 countries, operate in 6,500 money transfer corridors worldwide, and employ over 1,100 people globally.On the sending side WorldRemit is 100% digital (cashless), increasing convenience and enhancing security. For those receiving money, the company offers a wide range of options including bank deposit, cash collection, mobile airtime top-up, and mobile money.
    • hibaerrai
       
      WorldRemit started the year successfully with a new remittance partner in the Philippines (Palawan Pawnshop) expanding thus its activities in the country.
  • Backed by Accel, TCV, and Leapfrog—WorldRemit’s headquarters are in London, United Kingdom with regional offices in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Africa, Somaliland, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Belgium.
    • hibaerrai
       
      WorldRemit is based in London but expanded in numerous countries all over the world namely in Africa.
ghtazi

Paga: Send and Receive Money - 1 views

  • Paga is a mobile payment company. We are building an ecosystem to enable people to digitally send and receive money, and creating simple financial access for everyone
    • ghtazi
       
      Increase the country-wide footprint of Paga agents in Nigeria to promote financial inclusion in Nigeria and drive usage of a mobile wallet and other digital financial services. Using a market leader position to positively influence system wide change while enabling other promising technologies.
aminej

Digital Banking - cassava fintech - 0 views

    • aminej
       
      I love how convenient that app is because you have so much services that are offered such as paying, scanning, E-wallet, sending money from South Africa or Europe in a practical way. The world is become more and more digital and it is good to see that Africa is following the same path and doing fine.
  • Our Digital Banking business is anchored on a transactional banking model  with the following key services – Micro-loans, Savings, Agent Banking (designed to reach the previously excluded), Device Financing and Diaspora Banking. The Digital Bank’s flagship platform is branded “Square”.   The Square Mobile App is an integrated mobile banking solution that gives customers the ability to transact wherever they are, on services such as bill payments, funds transfer, banking services, nano loans, airtime and so forth. In line with our Diaspora thrust, we have also launched the Square World App, targeting diaspora customers anywhere in the world, offering remittances, and other suite of services as if they were back home
sawsanenn

FinTech : pourquoi Visa s'associe à la startup africaine Paga ? - 0 views

  • Cependant, l’application, qui se rapproche de ce que fait Lydia en Europe, n’est pas limitée au marché nigérian. En effet, la société cherche à étendre ses activités en Afrique de l’Ouest et au-delà. En janvier, Paga a ainsi mis la main sur la société éthiopienne Apposit pour se développer dans ce pays d’Afrique de l’Est. L’Éthiopie est le deuxième pays le plus peuplé d’Afrique avec 109 millions d’habitants, derrière le Nigeria et ses 200 millions d’habitants. Paga a également ouvert un bureau au Mexique pour déployer son service de paiement mobile cette année. Une expansion à l’international qui traduit les ambitions de la start-up de devenir une plateforme FinTech de référence dans les pays émergents.
    • ghtazi
       
      In January, the Ethiopian company Apposit got its hands on Paga to grow in this East African region. With 109 million inhabitants, Ethiopia is Africa's second-most populous country, behind Nigeria and its 200 million inhabitants. To deploy its mobile payment service this year, Paga also opened an office in Mexico. This international expansion represents the aspirations of the start-up to become a FinTech benchmark hub in developing countries.
  • Plus de 60% des investissements réalisés au Nigeria sont concentrés dans la FinTech. Ainsi, il n’est pas surprenant que la première licorne nigériane soit une FinTech : Interswitch.
    • nouhaila_zaki
       
      This excerpt is important because it discusses the importance of the fintech sector in Africa, and Nigeria in particular. Indeed, the excerpt explains that 60% of investments in Nigeria are concentrated in Fintech.
  • Pour les personnes ne disposant pas de téléphones portables, elles ont la possibilité d’accéder au service via des agents locaux positionnés dans des kiosques. A ce jour, la jeune pousse basée à Lagos revendique plus de 14 millions de clients au Nigeria.
    • nouhaila_zaki
       
      This excerpt explains how people who do not have access to mobile phones can still access Paga services through local agents operating from Kiosks.
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  • Sur un continent africain où des millions de personnes s’affranchissent des banques pour effectuer leurs dépenses quotidiennes, c’est le numérique, porté le fort taux de pénétration du mobile, qui a pris le dessus pour fournir des services financiers à la population locale.
    • sawsanenn
       
      this excerpt is important because it shows how fintech expanded in the African continent making it the leader of the digital financial services
samielbaqqali

Search behaviour trends during COVID19 - Think with Googl - 0 views

  • Consumers continue to use Google Search and YouTube for inspiration and learning new skills, and ‘how to’ searches continue to grow across both platforms.
    • samielbaqqali
       
      Fawry should spend more money on the ads, because many customers get targeted on that way, so while looking for some e-payments apps, they will take a look at Fawry as well.
mehdibella

FWRY.CA - Fawry for Banking Tech and Elec Pay SAE Profile | Reuters - 0 views

  • Fawry for Banking Technology and Electronic Payment SAE Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting
  • The Company allows users to pay bills in multiple channels, such as online, using automated teller machine (ATMs), mobile wallets and retail points. The Company provides operations services specialized in systems and communications, management, operating and maintenance of equipment and computers networks services and internal systems of banks, networks, and centralized systems. The Company also establish operating systems for banking services through the Internet, phone and e-payment services. The Company’s network of retailers includes small groceries, pharmacies, stationaries, and post-offices, among others.
samielbaqqali

Bango partners with TPay Mobile - 0 views

  • Bango (AIM: BGO), the data-driven commerce company, and TPAY MOBILE FZ-LLC (TPAY MOBILE, the full-service digital payments platform for the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey, have formed a strategic partnership to increase access to digital commerce.
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    When there are two or more well developped companies, it is a great idea to form a partnership, in order to improve their industries, which in their case is the E-Commerce.
mbellakbail69

Fawry becomes first Egyptian tech company to achieve USD 1 bn market cap | Enterprise - 0 views

  • STARTUP WATCH- Fawry is officially Egypt’s first unicorn: EGX-listed e-payments firm Fawry became the first Egyptian tech company to hit a market cap of USD 1 bn on Monday after its share price reached intraday highs of EGP 22.69, former managing director Mohamed Okasha announced in a LinkedIn post. Fawry’s share price has increased by more than 300% since it debuted on the EGX last year, a rise that has accelerated in recent months as the use of its payment services skyrocketed during the lockdown.
    • mbellakbail69
       
      To support its quest to understand its customers more deeply, Fawry will soon deploy IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator, which includes popular open source deep learning frameworks and efficient artificial intelligence
aymanelmamoun

Ethiopia: Mobile money schemes, helloCash and M-Birr launched - 0 views

  • The launch of the services, which allow customers to make payments or receive money via a mobile that is linked to a bank account, mirrors technology used in other African nations that has drawn millions of people into the financial system.
    • aymanelmamoun
       
      Ethiopian banks and institutions offer services to customers and hold the cash deposited aligned with government policies.
kenza_abdelhaq

Egyptian fintech in 2020: A tale of crosswinds and tailwinds [Part One] - Wamda - 0 views

  • Fortunately, Egypt’s first Covid wave was milder than those in other countries. The country managed to get by without going into full lockdown and the country is now one of the few in the world with a positive gross domestic product (GDP) growth outlook for 2020. Despite the mild top-line hit, most startups still felt the impact of Covid-19, with a whopping 83.9 per cent indicating, in May, that they had been negatively impacted by the crisis. The same survey highlighted that 29 per cent of Egyptian startups had suspended operations – an alarming proportion that would have increased with the recent resurgence of the virus. It remains to be seen what the full impact of the second wave is.  
    • kenza_abdelhaq
       
      Egypt managed to have a positive GDP growth in 2020 even though the pandemic impacted negatively more than 80% of the startups.
  • If we look back on 2020, the largest funding rounds for Egyptian startups were not in fintech but healthcare and transport, with Vezeeta raising more than $40 million and Swvl more than $20 million. Yet, fintech still managed to make headlines on several occasions, including new regulations, high profile investment rounds and exciting launches. It was an eventful and exhilarating year for the fintech ecosystem in Egypt.
    • kenza_abdelhaq
       
      Even though more importance was given to healthcare and transport with regard to the largest funding rounds, fintech was still getting a lot of attention (making headlines, new regulations, etc).
  • Fawry’s success story has undoubtedly encouraged investments in other e-payments venture that will help dynamise this space in coming years. The industry is still massively underpenetrated as cash remains king but will remain as one of the more active areas within fintech in coming years.
    • kenza_abdelhaq
       
      Fawry being the leader of digital payments in Egypt definitely helped encourage investments in this field/industry.
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    "Fortunately, Egypt's first Covid wave was milder than those in other countries. The country managed to get by without going into full lockdown and the country is now one of the few in the world with a positive gross domestic product (GDP) growth outlook for 2020. Despite the mild top-line hit, most startups still felt the impact of Covid-19, with a whopping 83.9 per cent indicating, in May, that they had been negatively impacted by the crisis. The same survey highlighted that 29 per cent of Egyptian startups had suspended operations - an alarming proportion that would have increased with the recent resurgence of the virus. It remains to be seen what the full impact of the second wave is.  "
ghtazi

Invest Mobile | F6S - 0 views

  • We connect our clients to the best investment solutions through our custom algorithm thats allows you to invest daily, weekly or monthly
    • aminej
       
      InvestMobile offers the most profitable investments for their customers in order to maximize their profits. It is located Ghana, Accra, it will reduce the number of unbanked people and teach people more about investments methods
  • We connect our clients to the best investment solutions through our custom algorithm thats allows you to invest daily, weekly or monthly
    • ghtazi
       
      the vision of Invest mobile, they claim that they have a custom algorithm that would suits best their customers in their investment
aymanelmamoun

SnapScan, Zapper, And Masterpass Are Not Getting On - 2oceansvibe News | South African ... - 0 views

  • Zapper is clearly less enthused and has pulled out of the Speedpoint terminals completely, which comes into effect from October 25, and CEO Brett White made it clear in a statement to Business Insider SA that the relationship hadn’t panned out well thus far:
    • aymanelmamoun
       
      Zapper as the main competitor of SnapScan.
aymanelmamoun

SnapScan - SnapScan is a free and fast way to pay using your phone. | Startup Ranking - 0 views

  • SnapScan - Pay using only your phone. No need to carry cash, load a wallet, worry about your card being skimmed or wait for a credit card terminal. It's the better way to buy.
    • aymanelmamoun
       
      Cardless transactions, as the better way to buy
aminej

About Hello Paisa international money transfer service - 0 views

  • Hello Paisa is brought to you by the same people behind Hello Mobile – a revolutionary mobile network service provider trusted by thousands of migrants across South Africa.Our track record guarantees the safety and efficiency of every cash transaction, because we’re passionate about your peace of mind.The service we offer is 100% legal and completely secure; we’re one of just a few international companies that’s been issued with an SA Reserve Bank license to do what we do.
    • kenzabenessalah
       
      When it comes to sending money overseas, people have their doubts in terms of security. This excerpt is important because it stresses the fact that it is one of the few companies that have been given the license to do what they do. Knowing so, people feel comfortable sending cash abroad.
  • hellopaisa international money transfer service allows you to send cash to countries across the world, in a manner that is fast, affordable, safe and easy to use. With hellopaisa, you can send cash instantly from South Africa and the United Kingdom to your loved ones back home.
  • When you’re living in a different country for work,the last thing you need to deal with is a complicated bank account.Introducing HelloPaisa: the fastest, easiest way to send cash to your loved ones.All you need is your phone!
    • mehdibella
       
      this technology gives the community the ability to avoid legal issues by dealing with money safely as well as secured transactions with a reduced cost up to 5%.
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  • hellopaisa international money transfer service allows you to send cash to countries across the world, in a manner that is fast, affordable, safe and easy to use. With hellopaisa, you can send cash instantly from South Africa and the United Kingdom to your loved ones back home.
    • aminej
       
      I really like the service proposed by Hellopaisa since it is very practical for people who want to send money from anywhere in the world. It will help connect people in rural areas to the world which is good since it will reduce the number of people who are unbanked.
tahaemsd

mpesa_d_1540.pdf - 0 views

  • n April 2007, following a donor‐funded pilot project, Safaricom launched a new mobile phone‐based payment and money transfer service, known as M‐PESA. 10 The service allows users to deposit money into an account stored on their cell phones, to send balances using SMS technology to other users (including sellers of goods and services), and to redeem deposits for regular money. Charges, deducted from users’ accounts, are levied when e‐float is sent, and when cash is withdrawn.
    • tahaemsd
       
      M‐PESA has spread quickly, and has become the most successful mobile phone‐based financial service in the developing world.
aminej

The Mukuru Story | Mukuru - 0 views

  • Mukuru enables our customers to move money around the world. We use the latest mobile and web-based technologies to deliver the safest and most efficient experience possible. But that’s just half the story. To really understand us, you need to know the why behind all we do. We exist as a remittances business to empower migrants typically excluded from mainstream financial services, to move money in a convenient, safe and affordable way. We know that every customer has a story; just as we do. So whether sending money home for school fees, the purchasing of seeds and farming equipment, hospital bills, rent or groceries, we are passionate about making each story end well.
  • Mukuru enables our customers to move money around the world. We use the latest mobile and web-based technologies to deliver the safest and most efficient experience possible. But that’s just half the story. To really understand us, you need to know the why behind all we do. We exist as a remittances business to empower migrants typically excluded from mainstream financial services, to move money in a convenient, safe and affordable way. We know that every customer has a story; just as we do. So whether sending money home for school fees, the purchasing of seeds and farming equipment, hospital bills, rent or groceries, we are passionate about making each story end well.
    • aminej
       
      Mukuru offers remittances to people across Africa. It can be helpful for people who live in rural areas. It has already erved more than 7 million customers with 42 branches in Africa.
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