Four years after pulling the plug on its M-Pesa platform in South Africa, Vodacom is having another go at fintech and mobile payments in its biggest market, this time in partnership with Chinese’s Ant Financial.
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Econet Wireless on Monday sought a court order to suspend a police warrant seeking information on its transactions because this would violate the privacy of the company and millions of its subscribers.
Zimbabwe’s police have accused Econet Wireless, the country’s dominant mobile phone company, of money laundering, demanded a list of its subscribers and issued a search warrant against it.
Another South African is making headlines in the US. Pierre Naudé is the CEO of the global fintech company nCino, which listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Tuesday.
Zimbabwe’s security force leaders sidelined the nation’s economic chiefs and forced the government to issue an order to close the stock exchange and halt most mobile money transactions, sources say.
MTN has rolled out a new feature of its Mobile Money service that will allow South African consumers to make purchases online using their MoMo wallets – no bank card required.
Zimbabwe on Friday suspended trade on the stock exchange and mobile phone-based payments to address what President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government called “criminality and economic sabotage”.
Brazil’s central bank has suspended Facebook’s WhatsApp messenger payment feature in the country, the app’s second biggest market with more than 120 million users.
Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging service rolled out a system across Brazil on Monday that will allow users to send money to individuals or local businesses within a chat, attaching payment as they would a photo or video.
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