From small Nigerian start-up to $250 billion fintech engine
Moniepoint began in Lagos in 2015 as a self-funded technology venture created by two Nigerian software engineers. Just over a ...
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Month: August 2026
US proposes new fundraising route for blockchain companies
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a new regulatory framework that could make it significantly easier for blockchain ...
India’s dollar shield draws nearly $73 billion
India’s central bank has attracted $72.85 billion in foreign-currency inflows through a special swap facility introduced to strengthen dollar liquidity, ...
Brazil puts 24-hour brake on high-risk crypto transfers
Brazil is tightening oversight of its rapidly expanding digital-asset market, introducing a 24-hour review period for certain cryptocurrency transfers in ...
Caribbean coastlines choke beneath 33 million tonnes of sargassum
Approximately 33.5 million tonnes of sargassum have spread across the tropical Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico this summer, overwhelming ...
Alibaba’s $10 billion AI bet reshapes the emerging-market technology race
Alibaba has proposed raising HK$80 billion, approximately $10.2 billion, through a new share placement in Hong Kong, with the Chinese ...
South African fintech breaks R1 billion barrier in travel payments
South African fintech TurnStay has processed more than R1 billion, approximately $61.5 million, in travel payments during the first six ...
The ordinary woman at the centre of Crimea’s alleged assassination plot
Friends remember Margarita Reutt as sociable, adventurous and outwardly unremarkable. Russian authorities now accuse the 32-year-old Sochi resident of planting ...
Global markets brace for cautious Monday as oil and yields dominate
Global equity markets are expected to open cautiously on Monday, 24 August, as investors balance Friday’s recovery on Wall Street ...
On this day in 2023: India became the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the Moon
Three years ago today, India became only the fourth country to achieve a controlled landing on the Moon, marking a ...