Posts by Dikonketso
New Crypto Exchange is Launched in Central Africa Amid Calls for Bitcoin Not to be Accepted as Legal Tender
MARA, a Pan-African crypto exchange has been launched and announced a partnership with the Central African Republic (CAR), which just passed a bill legalizing Bitcoin as legal tender. As part…
Read MoreTransport Infrastructure Improvements Underway
This Newsletter has tended to concentrate on telecom improvements, but we should not forget that, slowly but surely, Africa’s roads are being addressed with major projects. Efforts to upgrade connections…
Read MoreSA Now Exported More to Rest of Africa in 2021 than to EU; and news of the AfCFTA
According to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, South Africa’s exports to Africa surpassed those to the European Union in 2021. SA has also agreed to Malabo Declaration Commitment…
Read MoreNews from the RECS
Work continues to bring the SADC, EAC, and COMESA closer together. Meanwhile, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is urging Malawi to complete the process of ratifying…
Read MoreResearch into Mobile Money in Nigeria
The research company, Kasi Insights issued a survey in March (see: www.kasiinsight.com) on Fintech services in Nigeria, most of which are delivered by mobile. On the supply side, all banks (21)…
Read MoreGSMA Releases Its Survey on Mobile Money – Africa Leads
Africa now accounts for 70% of the world’s $1tr mobile money value. The value of Africa’s mobile money transactions edged up 39% to $701.4bn in 2021 from $495bn in 2020,…
Read MoreEcommerce Turnover in Kenya
The Research body, Kasi Insights, has issued its Brand Intelligence Tracker from 2021 which looks at how COVID affected the take-up of ecommerce in Kenya according to the report, ecommerce…
Read MoreMore on Telecoms Connectivity
Pan-African technology group, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, also announced that it has acquired space on the Google-backed Equiano subsea cable. The firm’s latest acquisition gives it the capacity to transport traffic…
Read MoreData Centres in Africa
Readers will recall that one of the major policy issues recently has been the storage and flow of data in Africa. Some “data localisation” regulations exist (specifically for financial data,…
Read MoreNews From Africa
New Trends in Payments – Interview with Michael Avery 102.7 FM Hot Business host Michael Avery will be interviewing EFSA Chair, Karen Nadasen, Board member Andrew Ma, BankServ Africa expert…
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