Mastercard has showcased technologies such as augmented reality as part of its work on the future of shopping and payments.
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When Walmart paid $16-billion for control of India’s e-commerce pioneer Flipkart Online Services from investors, including Naspers, last year, the US retail giant got a little-noticed digital payments subsidiary as part of the deal.
Naspers’s global fintech company, PayU, is expanding into Southeast Asia with the acquisition of Singapore-based Red Dot Payment.
Since their arrival, regulatory sandboxes have started – though slowly – to appear in areas beyond fintech. South African policy-makers need to pay attention. By Gwen Ngwenya.
Naspers’s PayU agreed to buy Turkish digital payments company Iyzico for R2.4-billion in its biggest fintech acquisition yet.
Naspers wants to spend about $1-billion in India this year as it scours the globe for investments that can replicate its blockbuster bet on China’s Tencent, a person familiar with the matter said.
WorldRemit, a UK company that specialises in money transfers into Africa, plans a new funding round in the next six months ahead of a potential initial public offering or buyout.
First National Bank and a start-up fintech company in South Africa are partnering to connect informal traders in townships with fast-moving consumer goods companies.
South African start-up Jini Guru has launched a smartphone app and QR card to allow users to make micropayments electronically, to a car guard for example, without the need to carry cash.
Two years after pulling the plug on its Mobile Money service in South Africa, MTN Group plans to relaunch the service in South Africa, according to sources close to the matter.