Bankers from sub-Saharan Africa and China who attended the Huawei sub-Saharan Africa Financial Services Industry Online Summit 2020 agree that digitisation of the sector will give it resilience against the current COVID-19 pandemic and enable sustained growth in the post COVID era
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South Africa’s Mama Money partners with Western Union for global expansion
Western Union, a provider in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, and Mama Money, a growing international money transfer company, have partnered to enable Mama Money customers to send money to their family around the world through Western Union’s Global Network
DHL Express acquires stake in Link Commerce
DHL Express has acquired a stake in the UK-based e-commerce firm Link Commerce, which helped the logistics company develop its hugely successful DHL Africa eShop platform
First 30 FRD-e's to be shipped to countries including Ghana and Tanzania
The production of the first 30 FRD-es has started and will be shipped worldwide to countries including Romania, Ghana, Tanzania and Brazil
Nigerian fintech firm Carbon launches new social banking service
Carbon, Nigeria’s digital financial services company, has launched a keyboard extension enabling customers to access Carbon services from any application they use