Swiss fintech Centi expands African presence with Yellow Card partnership
The partnership will help streamline crossborder payments into 20 African countries through stablecoins.
Remittance
Inside Kotani Pay’s plan to bridge Africa’s financial divide through cryptocurrency
To address the digital divide in Kenya, Kotani Pay employs familiar interfaces like USSD, making interactions with blockchain wallets as straightforward as everyday tasks.
Visa’s crypto head: Blockchain reduces barriers to developing financial products in Africa
Sheffield also believes that blockchain abstraction in mainstream products will lead to more adoption.
Blockchain will transform cross-border remittances in three years: Ripple survey
Most African and Middle Eastern respondents to the survey also believed that most merchants in their regions will accept payments in crypto.
Honeycoin taps MoneyGram to expand crypto-to-fiat capabilities
The partnership is aimed at facilitating cross-border transactions using both cryptocurrency and fiat currencies in multiple countries.
Bitcoin-powered remittances from Europe to African bank accounts are now possible
African cryptocurrency company Bitnob has partnered with European exchange CoinCorner to facilitate remittances over the Lightning Network.
Strike partners with Bitnob to facilitate Bitcoin-powered remittances to Africa
Africans can now receive low-cost and fast payments in their local currencies, powered by the Lightning Network. But there are questions on whether the process introduces credit, a feature of the traditional remittance system.