TPAY MOBILE has announced the appointment of Dheeraj Soni as the company’s Chief Operating Officer. Dheeraj has experience of two decades in leadership, transformation, and execution within growth focused organizations across the technology and telecoms industries. He will draw on his extensive experience as former President and Chief Commercial Officer at Docomo Digital Payments as […]

WeLab Bank, a homegrown virtual bank, has accumulated a total of over 10,000 applications since launching to the public less than 10 days ago. The need for a new generation of banking services seems stronger than ever amid the pandemic as customers are able to open accounts remotely anytime and anywhere in a secure and […]

Airtel Africa, a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services, announced a strategic partnership with Standard Chartered Bank, a leading international banking group, to drive financial inclusion across key markets in Africa by providing customers with increased access to mobile financial services. Standard Chartered and Airtel Africa will work together to co-create new, innovative […]

Mastercard and Microsoft announced a collaboration to drive innovation of digital commerce and startup ecosystems enabling financial inclusion. The collaboration will accelerate Mastercard Labs’ cloud native research and development activities, enabled by Azure and AI, to advance its mission to de-risk and commercialise emerging technologies and platforms for digital commerce. “We are thrilled to deepen […]

Temenos has announced that Orange Bank Africa has gone live with cloud-native Temenos Transact delivered as SaaS. Temenos’ technology will allow Orange Bank Africa to continuously innovate and provide customers with much-needed access to savings accounts and micro-loans. The new technology drives process automation for these services in order to deliver vital funding to more […]

SDB and GIB announced the launch of digital lending Platform in partnership with Beehive to finance small and micro enterprises in Saudi Arabia during a virtual meeting attended by the Chairman of Gulf International Bank – Saudi Arabia (GIB), Abdulla bin Mohammed Al-Zamil, the CEO of Social Development Bank (SDB),  Ibrahim bin Hamad Al- Rashid, the […]

Airtel Africa has partnered with digital money transfer service provider, WorldRemit for instant money transfer services expansion across Africa.  WorldRemit will enable customers from across the globe to receive money into Airtel Money wallets by simply downloading the free mobile App or through WorldRemit.com. Andrew Stewart, Managing Director for Middle East & Africa, WorldRemit, said: […]

Mamo Pay announced that it has joined Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program, allowing Mamo Pay to reach a wider audience, and benefit from the capabilities, and security of VisaNet, Visa’s global payment network. Through Fast Track, Mamo Pay and Visa will partner on a number of initiatives including launching prepaid cards to accelerate financial inclusion and […]

Mehedi Hasan, Founder & Group CEO at MyCash Online while conversing with Daily NewsPK explained how they are addressing the issues concerning financial inclusion among migrant workers in Asian markets and at the same time offering ease and security with their transactions. 1. What led you to create ‘MyCash Online’? When was it founded? In […]

TerraPay, a global payments infrastructure company, and Visa inked a strategic partnership to develop and deliver payment solutions that drive financial inclusion and cashless transactions for domestic payments and global remittances. The collaboration aims to develop and offer solutions to drive repeat consumption of the mobile wallets and digital currency for digital remittances and digital […]