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Deloitte Africa explores how Africa's financial sector navigates Open Banking's rise, leveraging tech partnerships, overcoming regulatory gaps, and ensuring data security for inclusive, innovative finance.
Open Banking, Open Finance, regulation, report, fintech, banks
Global card issuer Mastercard has partnered with UAE-based Further Ventures, a venture-building and investment company, to accelerate next-generation payments and asset management infrastructure.
partnership, digital payments, digital banking, online payments, startup
Marten Nelson of M10 shares key insights gained from the development of a retail CBDC as a participant in Project Sela.
CBDC, retail CBDC, wholesale CBDC, DLT, stablecoin, MiCA, payments , tokenization, AML, KYC
Payment24, a global payments platform provider, has launched a financial payments product, Payment24 Cloud Switch.
payments , cloud payments, cloud services, product launch, transactions
The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) and the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) have entered into a Bilateral Currency Swap Agreement between the UAE Dirham and the Egyptian Pound.
partnership, banking, financial services, financial institutions
Edward Dovey, Head of APAC at RTGS.global, sheds light on the role of faster, more affordable cross-border payment solutions and understanding the de-dollarisation trend.
cross-border payments, cross-border logistics, CBDC, digital currency, settlement, financial institutions, FX , central bank
Nadia Bull Bernikova, Senior Sales Manager and Jonathan Fuller, Senior Sales Manager at Silverflow, discuss the main question of acquirers regarding payment processing – building their own solution to cater to their specific company needs or externalising the service to PSPs, payfacs, acquirers and merchants.
online payments, PSP, merchant, marketplace, payment processor, payment processing, online authentication, reconciliation, chargebacks, fintech
Westpac New Zealand has deployed a solution from Finastra to accelerate its compliance with the new ISO 20022 financial messaging standard.
partnership, compliance, banks, ISO 20022, data
Japan-based card scheme JCB International and the Saudi National Bank (SNB) have allowed the acceptance of JCB Cards through over 306,351 POS terminals and 3,088 ATMs across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
debit card, credit card, POS, mPOS, central bank
The European Union (EU) has agreed to impose new sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
regulation, Russia Ukraine War, transactions , banks, COVID-19
The Russian Vedomosti news agency has revealed in an article that Russia and Iran are gearing up to launch a new gold-backed stablecoin.
stablecoin, cryptocurrency, cross-border payments, partnership, regulation
May Lam, APAC Payments Leader and Oceania Fintech Leader at EY, shares insights about moving beyond compliance with Open Data, data economies, and monetisation.
Open Data Economy, Open Banking, Open Finance
Serena Sebastiani from PwC Middle East shares insights into the Open Banking state of affairs in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.
Open Banking, Open Finance, Open Data Economy, regulation
Spain has pushed ahead with its plan to impose windfall taxes on banks and energy companies as lawmakers approved the move despite the concerns of international institutions.
banks, regulation, financial services, financial institutions
A representative of Russia’s Ministry of Finance has stated the country is seeking a non-restrictive policy for using Bitcoin and crypto in international trade.
cryptocurrency, digital assets, cross-border payments, Bitcoin
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has begun testing the digital rouble platform and has completed a cycle of transfers between individual clients.
CBDC, banks, digital currency, digital wallet, digital assets
The Bank of Russia, the country’s central bank, has admitted that cross-border payments in crypto are inevitable in the current geopolitical conditions.
banks, cryptocurrency, cross-border payments, central bank, regulation
Thunes, a Singapore-based cross-border payments company, has accelerated the expansion of its services in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
expansion, cross-border payments, B2B payments, super app, fintech
Five Turkish banks have adopted Russia’s Mir payments system, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after talks with President Vladimir Putin.
banks, payments , Russia Ukraine War, partnership, e-wallet
Zand, a digital banking startup which provides retail and corporate services, has been granted a banking licence from the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates.
digital banking, banks, banking license, startup, central bank