30 results
- 21 Jan 2021
Mastercard and Network International Launch Digital Platform to Accelerate Digital Payment Adoption Across MEA
Mastercard, a technology leader in the global payments industry, and its strategic partner, Network International, the leading enabler of digital commerce in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region,…
- 24 Jul 2015
MasterCard Opens its Digital Security Lab to Customers
MasterCard has opened its digital security facility to its customers, driving further collaboration on key issues that can deliver greater payments peace of mind. The MasterCard DigiSec Lab, located…
- 29 Jul 2015
MasterCard Invites Customer Input at Digital Security Lab
MasterCard has opened its digital security facility to its customers in order to promote collaboration on payments security issues, according to a company news release. The lab is based in England…
- 12 Dec 2014
MasterCard Lists Expectations from Digital Financial Services Lab
MasterCard has expressed its expectations Digital Financial Services lab recently launched in East Africa with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In a telephone chat with…
- 3 Dec 2014
MasterCard Launches Digital Financial Services Lab, $11m for R&D
MasterCard has launched a new innovation lab with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop financial services that help people build better futures. MasterCard said that across…
- 2 Feb 2017
Atlas Mara, Mastercard Enter into Partnership for Financial Access
Atlas Mara and Mastercard have signed three strategic business agreements, which aim to build a stronger digital payment ecosystem with a focus on accelerating financial inclusion in sub-Saharan…
- 27 May 2019
FirstBank Convenes Fireside Chat, Promotes Awareness On Cyber Security
FirstBank of Nigeria Limited has announced that the fourth edition of its Fireside chat would hold on Friday, May 31, 2019 at its Digital Innovation Lab in Yaba, Lagos. The topic, Cyber…
- 1 Mar 2017
Masterpass QR Now Live in 7 Markets in Middle East, Africa
Mastercard has successfully been able to introduce and roll-out Masterpass QR in seven markets in the Middle East and Africa (MEA). This momentum, Mastercard said, is part of the company’s commitment…
- 28 Oct 2020
Mastercard Set to Empower Small Businesses in Nigeria with Low-Cost Payments Solution
Mastercard has launched a new low-cost payments solution that enables small business owners to move their businesses online and accept a range of digital payments from their customers. The…
- 29 Mar 2023
DFS Lab Launches Fund to Back Fintech Teams Across Africa
Fintech incubator DFS Lab has launched the DFS Lab Stellar Africa Fund I to back high-potential innovators across Africa. The focus is to transform digital payments by building on a finan cial…
- 27 Nov 2020
Innovectives Partners Mastercard on SME-in-a-Box Cashless Solution
Innovectives Limited, Nigeria’s fintech firm has said it is excited to work with the amazing team at Mastercard and partner fintechs to unlock rapid growth through digitization for small businesses…
- 17 May 2018
Interswitch Partners Slum2School Africa to Improve Qualitative Education & Build Skills Around STEM
Interswitch Limited, an integrated digital payment, and commerce company, who is pursuing an ambitious but achievable goal to grow the standard of STEM education in Africa, has partnered Slum2School,…
- 6 May 2019
Kaspersky says SIM Swap Fraud is Targeting Africa’s Financial, Online Services
Kaspersky Lab experts at its annual Cyber Security Weekend discussed the wide spread growth of mobile payments across the globe and the many cyber risks that surround such technology, especially the…
- 23 Sept 2020
Mastercard Announces Fintech Express to Empower MEA Fintechs to Launch and Expand Rapidly
Mastercard has launched Fintech Express in the Middle East and Africa (MEA), a program designed to facilitate emerging fintechs’ launch and expansion. Leveraging the power of partnerships and…
- 15 Aug 2017
Mastercard Launches Groundbreaking Payment Technologies
From a mobile payments system for farmers in Africa to transactions involving humanoid robots, newly unveiled technologies at the innovation hub highlight Mastercard’s commitment to driving…
- 10 Mar 2017
NMB to Digitize Tanzania’s Agric Sector with Mastercard eKilimo Mobile Solution
National Microfinance Bank Pic (NMB) has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Mastercard to ensure the digitization of the agricultural sector in Tanzania with the rollout of eKilimo, a…
- 6 May 2022
GSMA Launches a Mobile Money API Specification Compliance Service
GSMA, the global organisation unifying the mobile ecosystem, recently launched a Mobile Money API Compliance Verification Service; a quality assurance initiative which aims to reduce the complexities…
- 11 Mar 2020
Lagos Fintech Week2020 Organizers Unveil Speakers
Over 20 leading women in the financial technology will gather to discuss how to break down barriers identified in the ecosystem at the FemTech in Fintech Forum (FiFF), as part of series of events…
- 9 Nov 2018
First Bank launches chat banking on WhatsApp
First Bank of Nig. Plc on Friday launched a WhatsApp application to make banking more convenient for its 12.5 million customers. The FirstBank Chat Banking on WhatsApp was launched at the…
- 5 Nov 2019
Visa Introduces Suite of Security Capabilities to Prevent, Disrupt Payment Fraud
Visa launched a suite of innovative security capabilities to help prevent and disrupt payment fraud, breaking new ground in Cybersecurity and fraud prevention across Central & Eastern Europe,…
- 5 Jan 2015
Beware! Internet of ‘Threats’ 2015 Loading
As F5 Networks puts it, “Promiscuous sharing of personal information is putting identity data at greater risk than ever”, a series of stunning cyberattacks drew headlines in 2014, and the situation…
- 24 Jun 2026
Privacy Crisis May Undermine Local Hosting of Data by Banks, Fintechs
Nigeria’s weak data protection guardrails may undermine the recent directive by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to banks, fintech firms, and other payment service providers to store payment transaction…
- 14 Jul 2020
GSMA Launches Mobile Money Interoperability Test Platform
Interoperability can help the mobile money industry shift to a higher gear, where customers can pay merchants and transfer money without having to consider which mobile money provider they are using.…
- 7 Aug 2020
FirstBank Processed N6 Trillion Transactions Via FirstMonie — Adeduntan
First Bank of Nigeria Limited has said that it has processed transactions worth over N6 trillion on its FirstMonie Agent network as at July 2020. Dr. Adesola Adeduntan, chief executive officer,…
- 23 Mar 2009
Zinox, USPF, Others Aid Schools to Beat Recession
The educational sector appears to have come to terms with the fact that only a whole hearted acceptance of Information Technology can restore the role of education as the pivot of national…
- 25 Oct 2017
Okere X-Rays Fintech Challenge And the New Face of Banking
Financial technology (FinTech) is clearly signifying that the digital revolution has arrived in the financial services sector and Mr. Austin Okere, founder, Computer Warehouse Group (CWG Plc) and…
- 18 May 2020
COVID-19 Response: Mastercard to Connect 1Bn People, 50m Small Businesses, 25 Million Women Entrepreneurs to the Digital Economy by 2025
The health and economic consequences of COVID-19 have highlighted the critical need to support vulnerable populations, many of whom are disproportionately impacted. In this time of global crisis,…
- 7 Dec 2023
NIBSS Orders Banks to Suspend Opay, Flutterwave, Others from Transfer List
Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) has asked banks to delist Payment Solution Service Providers (PSSPs) Switches and Super Agents from its outward payment or transfer list. Payment Solution…
- 8 Apr 2026
Paga Group Rejigs Leadership as Oviosu, Founder Becomes Group CEO
Paga Group has announced a major leadership restructuring, marking 17 years of operation and signalling a strategic shift toward deeper financial infrastructure development, emerging technologies,…
- 11 Oct 2017
How to Build More Connected & Inclusive Cities
By Carlos Menendez, Carlos Menendez is president, Enterprise Partnerships, for Mastercard. In this role, Mr. Menendez is responsible for expanding the company’s operations globally with partnerships…