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aminej

We'Ve Partnered With Easyequities To Make Investing Easy | Save | Capitec Bank - 0 views

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Trading Platform Online Mobile Investing Financial Literacy

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  • EasyEquities is an innovative investment platform that allows you to own parts of a company (shares) from as little as R5. They make it easy and more affordable to buy shares in local and international stock markets. We've partnered with them to deliver on our purpose of helping you improve your financial life – by providing simple access to easy investing. And if you haven't invested before, don't worry about it! We'll help you learn the ropes with practise money in your demo account so you can get the hang of investing before using your own money.
    • aminej
      aminej on 12 Feb 21
       
      The good thing about it is that if you're a beginner in trading you can go for a demo account and learn step by step how to trade in order to avoid losing money.
kenzabenessalah

Cassava Fintech | Start-Up Nation Central - 0 views

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Fintech transformation Cassava Digital financial services

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  • In July 2018, Start-Up Nation Central hosted a delegation from Cassava Fintech, Africa who are leading Africa’s Fintech Transformation Revolution. Cassava Fintech provide inclusive access to digital financial services across Africa, helping drive financial inclusion, digital payments and the adoption of mobile e-commerce.
    • kenzabenessalah
      kenzabenessalah on 12 Feb 21
       
      Cassava must always be on point since it once was the leading company in Africa's Fintech Transformation Revolution. Helping to create more digitalized services for Africa is a great initiative.
chaimaa-rachid

IfG.CC - Egypt: Fawry launches first nation-wide electronic bill payment and presentmen... - 2 views

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Egyptian banks services security

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  • "The success of Fawry is driven by the adoption of a large number of billers and banks to ensure that the largest part of the Egyptian population can benefit from Fawry," said Magda Habib, chief commercial officer at Fawry. "We are in the process of on-boarding a significant number of new members across a diversity of services ranging from social clubs to schools to utilities and insurance, ensuring that Egyptians are able to access and pay their bills across a wide range of services with ease and complete security through Fawry."
  • chaimaa-rachid on 11 Feb 21
     
    I appreciate how Fawry cares about its customers, they want to make sure all Egyptians are able to use their various secure payment options.
kenza_abdelhaq

TPAY acquires Payguru, the leading payment platform in Turkey | Helios Investment Partners - 0 views

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TPay Mobile Algeria Acquisitions

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  • TPAY MOBILE, the leading digital merchant acquirer and mobile payment enabler in the Middle East and Africa, announced the acquisition of 100% of the shares of Payguru, one of Turkey’s leading payment service providers. The transaction remains subject to approvals from the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey and the Competition Authority.
    • kenza_abdelhaq
      kenza_abdelhaq on 12 Feb 21
       
      Tpay Mobile acquired all the shares of the Turkish payment service provider Payguru which allowed the company to expand its operations to Turkey.
  • Payguru offers mobile payments, ATM cash payments, and bank transfer services to its merchants through its integration with Turkey’s three mobile network operators (Turkcell, Vodafone, and Türk Telekom) and 8 major banks in Turkey (Ziraat Bankası, Yapı Kredi Bankası, Türkiye İş Bankası, Garani Bankası, Akbank, TEB Paribas, Vakıfbank and QNB Finansbank).
    • kenza_abdelhaq
      kenza_abdelhaq on 12 Feb 21
       
      The newly acquired company allows Tpay Mobile to offer alternative payment products, have access to more financial technologies, and work closely with different banks and mobile network operators in Turkey.
  • kenza_abdelhaq on 12 Feb 21
     
    "TPAY MOBILE, the leading digital merchant acquirer and mobile payment enabler in the Middle East and Africa, announced the acquisition of 100% of the shares of Payguru, one of Turkey's leading payment service providers. The transaction remains subject to approvals from the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey and the Competition Authority. "
kenza_abdelhaq

Lumkani - 0 views

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Lumkani South Africa Insurtech

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  • Lumkani, a Johannesburg-based startup that leverages proprietary hardware and a tech-enabled agent network to provide customers living in informal settlements within South Africa with insurance products that protect against loss of life, shelter, and assets in the case of a home fire. Lumkani, which means ‘be careful’ in Xhosa, originally began as a hardware company, deploying its first fire detector in late 2014. Within the first 18 months, they were able to prove that their technology “in 73 percent of cases was able to reduce the spreading of fires [beyond] the first home.” But it was not enough just to alert the community and stop the spreading of fires.
    • kenza_abdelhaq
      kenza_abdelhaq on 10 Feb 21
       
      Starting off as a hardware company that helped low-income families and informal settlements, Lumkani quickly shifted to the new technologies and partnered up with the insurance company Hollard to not only detect fire but to have access to fire insurance.
  • Destructive fires are a regular, and potentially devastating, occurrence for the approximately 10 million South Africans that live in informal settlement communities. These townships are particularly susceptible to the threat of fires due to the use of flammable building materials, the ubiquity of open flame fires, limited space between dwellings, and a lack of road infrastructure for adequate emergency response.
    • kenzabenessalah
      kenzabenessalah on 12 Feb 21
       
      Such devices are a must have in regions where fires are regular. It was smart to present such a device in South Africa because almost 10 million South Africans are affected by such tragic events.
  • With that problem in mind, Lumkani, partnered with Hollard, a South African-based insurance company, to develop the world’s first hardware-enabled fire insurance specifically designed for informal settlements. To serve clients that had been ignored by traditional financial service providers previously, the company has created an efficient, engaging, and easy to manage experience for its low-income customers.
    • kenza_abdelhaq
      kenza_abdelhaq on 13 Feb 21
       
      Lumkani developed hardware-enabled fire insurance to detect fires in informal settlements and partnered up with the insurance company Hollard to provide this segment with solutions and experience that was not made available to them by traditional financial service providers.
hindelquarrouti

Good practice - M-PESA International Money Transfer Service, Safaricom - 0 views

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M-peas International money transfer

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  • M-PESA's International Money Transfer (IMT) service allows anyone wishing to send money to Kenya to visit one of several Safaricom IMT partners (such as Post Finance, World Remit, and Western Union) and send money to an M-PESA mobile phone in Kenya. Money transfers are received almost instantly, and at no expense to the recipient.
  • M-PESA is the result of a partnership between Vodafone and Safaricom, a Kenyan mobile network operator. M-PESA's International Money Transfer (IMT) service allows anyone wishing to send money to Kenya to visit one of several Safaricom IMT partners (such as Post Finance, World Remit, and Western Union) and send money to an M-PESA mobile phone in Kenya.
  • chaimaa-rachid on 12 Feb 21
     
    M-Pesa is designed for everyone but it is explicitly intended for customers who do not have access to banks or because they don't have a bank account or in light of the fact that they live excessively far away from a bank office.
  • hindelquarrouti on 13 Feb 21
     
    M-pesa, that promoted financial inclusion in Kenya, was originally created from a partnership between Vodafone and Safaricom. It has enabled Kenyans to send money and make online payments. Also, it has made sure that the transfers were made instantly and no expenses were made for the receiving party.
hindelquarrouti

M-PESA: Progress and Prospects - 0 views

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M-pesa mobile payment success

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  • This is a good example of a service whose time had come and whose implementation occurred in the right context.
  • hindelquarrouti on 13 Feb 21
     
    The features of the local mobile telephony and banking sectors contributed greatly to the effectiveness and success of M-pesa. A combination of unbanked people with access to mobile technology.
tahaemsd

Hello Paisa goes global with Western Union - 0 views

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Fintech Africa Payments modernization Service

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  • “We have identified an opportunity for effective global collaboration to do our part in enhancing financial inclusion for migrants living in South Africa. Through this partnership, we have been able to expand our reach globally, sparing our customers the hassle to travel long distances to collect their money as we now leverage off Western Union’s vast network of retail agents, bank account and wallet payout capabilities,”
    • kenza_abdelhaq
      kenza_abdelhaq on 10 Feb 21
       
      The South African payment company expands its operations and its reach by partnering up with the global corporation Western Union. This allows the enhancement of financial inclusion mainly in South Africa and allows people to have quick and convenient access to their money.
  • Hello Paisa, one of South Africa’s largest international money transfer providers and Western Union, a global leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments today announced they have joined forces to enable Hello Paisa customers to send global money transfers for payout at the global network of Western Union.
    • tahaemsd
      tahaemsd on 13 Feb 21
       
      This partnership enables hellopaisa customers to send money from south africa to their family and loved ones for pay-out into billions of bank accounts
kenzabenessalah

AgroCenta - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding - 1 views

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Value Chain Markets Delivery System

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  • AgroCenta was founded by two ex-esoko employees, Francis Obirikorang and Michael K. Ocansey in 2015 to improve the agricultural value chain in Ghana. Two critical problems within the value chain, which are the lack of an access to market for smallholder farmers in the rural areas, which subjected them to activities of exploitative, buying frommiddlemen and the lack of a coordinated truck delivery system to cart their commodities from farms to markets to sell.
    • kenzabenessalah
      kenzabenessalah on 12 Feb 21
       
      Improving the value chain in Ghana is essential to its economy and operations. With AgroCenta, problems with delivery systems and untrustworthy marketers will decrease.
kenza_abdelhaq

Hello Paisa steps into conversational commerce: WhatsApp Business - 0 views

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HelloPaisa South Africa Remittance Partnership

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  • Hello Paisa’s solution to the problem is its easy-to-use money remittance app that enables customers to send cash to countries across the world in a manner that is affordable, fast and safe. With the Hello Paisa app, all you need is an active account and your mobile phone to easily create a transaction and send money home instantly.The high cost of data, however, remains a factor that prevents many customers from accessing the app.The solution: WhatsApp Business API. By using the WhatsApp Business solution, Hello Paisa customers can now initiate transactions via WhatsApp, thus taking a ground-breaking step into conversational commerce!From the comfort of an already utilised platform, Hello Paisa customers can now conveniently, easily and cost-effectively initiate transactions, obtain exchange rates, view transaction history, create or delete a recipient, and refer a friend.
    • kenza_abdelhaq
      kenza_abdelhaq on 13 Feb 21
       
      To enhance customers' experience, HelloPaisa incorporated WhatsApp Business API solution to its already existing application. New services and functionalities have therefore been made available to the platform's customers.
chaimaa-rachid

Interview: Fintech, Bank partnerships will deepen Financial Inclusion - STEPHEN MUTANA ... - 0 views

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Partnership banks MTN

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  • We improve on partnerships focusing on leveraging on existing infrastructure such as distribution systems sides for cost effective operations. Partnerships that aim to drive innovation by exposing prebuilt APIs. For instance, access to accounts, transaction history, know your customer, or metadata enhancements.  
  • chaimaa-rachid on 13 Feb 21
     
    MTN finds that partnering with banks and other monetary establishments as an approach to turn out to be more reliable for clients.
hichamachir

Client Registration: The Blind Spot in Agricultural Insurance | Agrilinks - 0 views

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Pula Agriculture Insurance Fintech

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  • However, PULA’s research showed that registration was not as simple in practice. Because customers had to go through several steps on their phones, they found the registration process to be cumbersome. More importantly, research showed that customers wanted more than simplicity. Most agents and smallholders hesitated to sign up for the insurance after simply reading about it. And input agents, who are often trusted, face-to-face sources of information, did not make enough of an effort to explain the product. PULA often told agents that, by informing customers that their input purchases were insured, they were likely to increase sales, but this proved to be an inadequate incentive.
  • hichamachir on 13 Feb 21
     
    I think that simplicity is the key to win customers heart especially when you deal with small scale farmers that are not very comfortable with technology. Pula needs to put more efforts in simplifying its business so everyone can have access to it.
hibaerrai

WorldRemit launches transfer tracker app - 0 views

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WorldRemit Remittance E-payments

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  • Consumer research shows that financial insecurity is at an all time high. WorldRemit is working tirelessly to increase transparency and support users by providing easy access to financial services. With WorldRemit’s proprietary technology, each user can now track the money they have been sent, giving them added peace of mind at a time when they need it most.
    • hibaerrai
      hibaerrai on 13 Feb 21
       
      WorldRemit continues to develop new apps and platforms everyday in order to increase financial inclusion in all countries. Their services are known for their speed, convenience and safety. I believe that this fintech is among the best ones in the world.
  • WorldRemit is one of the first companies in the global payments industry to launch a Transfer Tracker app exclusively with recipients in mind. The digital payments company allows senders in 50 countries to send money via the app or website to recipients in over 150 countries and can choose from multiple payout methods including bank deposits, mobile wallets, mobile airtime top-up and cash pick-up.
    • hibaerrai
      hibaerrai on 13 Feb 21
       
      WorldRemit might be surpassing popular fintechs in the next years. It goes beyond standard services and look for ones that suit all individuals in different countries.
hichamachir

Pula: Reimagining the landscape of agricultural insurance | Mercy Corps - 0 views

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Pula Vision Agriculture Insurance

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  • Every year, we work to reach around 1 million small farmers with the resources they need to diversify and improve their crops, increase their incomes, and become more resilient in the face of a rapidly changing climate.   Our vision is that small farmers have greater agency over their livelihoods. This means access to the insurance, advice and resources they need to generate enough profit to feed their families and thrive. By supporting Pula, we continue to take steps in this direction — a world in which all small farmers can rest assured their livelihood is safe and they have what they need to prosper and grow.
  • hichamachir on 13 Feb 21
     
    Pula aims to reach 1 million small farmer per year. This is just a brilliant vision that leave a great impact in the society.
nouhaila_zaki

CEO Interview: Egypt's first unicorn Fawry aims to lead in financial inclusion | ZAWYA ... - 0 views

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Fawry Egypt Pandemic Customer Segment

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  • Aversion to electronic financial service remains one of the challenges facing fintech in Egypt, an attitude that COVID-19 has helped mitigate, according to Sabry. Mobile wallet transactions, one of Fawry’s main services, witnessed “phenomenal growth” as soon as a partial lockdown was imposed. The company’s mobile app reached a record high of more than a million downloads between March and June.
    • nouhaila_zaki
      nouhaila_zaki on 13 Feb 21
       
      This excerpt is important because it discusses how the pandemic has helped Fawry with its growth by suppressing the challenges it usually faced.
  • More than two-thirds of Egypt’s adult population do not have a bank account, and even those who do rarely have full access to financial services. At the other extreme, mobile phone penetration in the country is estimated at over 95 percent, and the number of mobile internet users has reached more than 42 million. For Ashraf Sabry, CEO of e-payment unicorn Fawry, this is a huge business opportunity.
    • nouhaila_zaki
      nouhaila_zaki on 13 Feb 21
       
      This excerpt is important because it explains the circumstances that contributed to Fawry's success, being the large unbanked population in Egypt coupled with the fast mobile phone penetration in the country.
  • nouhaila_zaki on 13 Feb 21
     
    "Aversion to electronic financial service remains one of the challenges facing fintech in Egypt, an attitude that COVID-19 has helped mitigate, according to Sabry. Mobile wallet transactions, one of Fawry's main services, witnessed "phenomenal growth" as soon as a partial lockdown was imposed. The company's mobile app reached a record high of more than a million downloads between March and June."
mohammed_ab

MTN South Africa has collaborated with SA fintech Ozow to simplify MoMo transfers - Tec... - 2 views

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MTN Ozow Collaboration Fintech

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  • MTN South Africa has simplified the loading of funds for  Mobile Money (MoMo) users. According to a post on IT News Africa, Thomas Pays the CEO of Ozow described the partnership as ” one more step” in enabling “greater digital and financial inclusion” for all of South Africa. MTN MoMo was launched in early 2020 crossing a million users by June offering users an easy way to send money to their families and friends. The same applies to access to value-added services such as renewal of car license discs, prepaid electricity, online purchase of products, and an affiliate network of eCommerce partners.
  • mohammed_ab on 12 Feb 21
     
    I like this service a lot as it allows you to transfer money using your mobile phone and pay daily bills like electricity in a very convenient way.
ayachehbouni

YCombinator backed investment platform, Thndr, receives first new brokerage license in ... - 0 views

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  • Thndr, a YCombinator backed investment platform, makes it easy to invest in stocks, bonds, and funds completely commission free. Thndr aims at solving Egypt and the region’s painful, outdated and time consuming process to open, fund and actively manage investment accounts. Thndr’s first product is a mobile first equities trading platform in Egypt. The startup just acquired the necessary licensing from the Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) making the fast growing startup the first company to acquire a brokerage license in Egypt since 2008. Issuing a license to a tech company is a testament to the regulator’s strong commitment to seek modern methodologies to enhance the investment landscape in Egypt.
    • aminej
      aminej on 12 Feb 21
       
      They acquired an important license from the Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) which shows that they are following strict regulations. It is good for the traders because it is a official trading platform that offers safety when investing and trading
  • Thndr pre-seed funding involved an array of distinct investors such as Y-Combinator, 4DX Ventures, Endure Capital, The Raba Partnership, MSA Capital, along with some other notable investors that include Tom Stafford, Managing Partner, DST “Savings and investing is a critical part of building wealth and economic development, and Egypt’s youth needs a mobile first platform like Thndr to open the floodgates of investing in the coming decades.
    • ayachehbouni
      ayachehbouni on 13 Feb 21
       
      Investors are attracted to Thndr because of its ideals and goals but mostly because of its innovative services. The platform removes all barriers and friction that users face throughout their investment journey, be it when it comes to account opening, associated costs, access to resources or ease of use. The important mission these services carry out are what made the success of the company among its competitors.
mohammed_ab

Matchi.biz - EasyEquities talks fintech challenge events - 0 views

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EasyEquities Investech Investment platform Trading South Africa

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  • Our goal is to democratise all things investment. We’re approaching our break-even point as a business and we’ve achieved some significant milestones. The first is that we’ve built a valuable brand that is highly trusted and is engaging a new audience in investing – one that is demographically representative of the South African opportunity. Everyone is included, from a 12-year-ols running their own stock portfolios to a 94-year-old previously disadvantaged South African who felt they would never participate in owning shares in this country. It’s been an incredibly rewarding journey.
  • mohammed_ab on 13 Feb 21
     
    I really like the fact that EasyEquities is facilitating and allowing the access to financial markets to different age groups going as low as 12 years old. I once tried online trading, and I can understand the difficulties that people face to find reliable platforms in which you can trade foreign financial instruments.
nourserghini

Abacus - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding - 0 views

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Abacus Investech Software Kenya

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  • Abacus builds web and mobile software to help investors across the globe access African financial markets. We make it possible for both local and international investors to research and invest, anytime, anywhere.
    • nourserghini
      nourserghini on 13 Feb 21
       
      Abacus specializes in web and mobile software in the African financial markets to allow local and international clients to invest or research.
nourserghini

How little known Abacus is enabling Kenyans to Micro-invest in Securities on the Nairob... - 0 views

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Abacus Investech Mobile App Website Trading

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  • A new Kenyan startup called Abacus (www.abacus.co.ke) is a licensed data vendor with the Nairobi Securities Exchange(NSE).Its been in existence since 2015 and just early this year,in partnership with Genghis Capital and Chase bank,they began offering subscribers the ability to deposit,buy,sell and trade unit trusts,bonds and equities on their platform.
    • ayachehbouni
      ayachehbouni on 08 Feb 21
       
      Abacus helps investors in African markets make and execute faster, smarter, and more informed decisions by providing real time financial data, news, analysis and analytics tools and market access.
  • A new Kenyan startup called Abacus (www.abacus.co.ke) is a licensed data vendor with the Nairobi Securities Exchange(NSE).Its been in existence since 2015 and just early this year,in partnership with Genghis Capital and Chase bank,they began offering subscribers the ability to deposit,buy,sell and trade unit trusts,bonds and equities on their platform.
    • aminej
      aminej on 13 Feb 21
       
      Abacus offers very interesting investing opportunities for Kenyans who want to learn about trading through stocks, bonds and other securities. It will also reduce the number of people who are unbanked and encourage them to use these services in order to maximize profit
  • All in all,Abacus allows you to easily get started on the road to investing in the NSE,its available on the web through www.abacus.co.ke and the android app is available on the Google play store,A basic subscriber account is easy to set up and allows one to easily get started with practise trading with virtual funds and realtime NSE data on market open so that one can learn.
    • nourserghini
      nourserghini on 13 Feb 21
       
      This article shows that Abacus makes investing easier through its website and android app that allow trading with virtual funds and real market data.
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