Fintech in Africa is a goldmine. Investors are betting big on startups offering a plethora of services from payments and lending to neobanks, remittances and cross-border transfers, and rightfully so. Each of these services solves unique sets of challenges. For cross-border payments, it’s the outrageous rates and regulatory hassles involved with completing transactions from one African…
The vast majority of people in India, the world’s second most populous nation, don’t have health insurance coverage. A significant portion of the population that does have coverage get it from their employers. Plum, a young startup that is making it easier and more affordable for more firms in the nation to provide insurance coverage…
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s Peronist government is optimistic about gaining an extension on a $2.4 billion repayment to the Paris Club of country lenders, local media said on Sunday ahead of the deadline for the debt next week. Argentina’s center-left President Alberto Fernandez has been lobbying hard in recent weeks to defer the payment,…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron in Jerusalem. June 16, 2020. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Bank of Israel is expected to leave short-term interest rates unchanged this week for its ninth straight policy meeting, amid higher inflation and a view that a rapid COVID-19 vaccination roll-out…
* U.S. CDC SAYS DELIVERED 366,316,945 DOSES OF COVID-19 VACCINE AS OF MAY 30 VERSUS 366,314,625 DOSES DELIVERED AS OF MAY 29
South Africa has extended its nightly curfew and limited the number of people at gatherings to slow the spread of COVID-19 as positive cases surge, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday.
The decision to lift final lockdown measures in England on June 21 will be made after data on infection, hospitalisation, vaccination and new variants are assessed, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Sunday.”We will share the evidence with the country on the 14th of June to basically explain exactly where we are on infection rates,…
MP Clive Betts has written to the government to ask why new guidance designed to help about 500,000 leaseholders sell or remortgage their flats is not being followed.It was issued by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in March.It is supposed to help surveyors decide which tower blocks need extra fire safety checks.But although…
Congo-Brazzaville’s President Denis Sassou-Nguesso has appointed his son Denis-Christel as a cabinet minister – a move that has revived media speculation that he has a dynastic succession in mind.Not that such a transition looks imminent. Elected to a further term in March, after ruling the country for all but five of the past 41 years,…
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