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David Whitehouse

South Africa’s challenger banks can make rapid payments inroads

For the challenger banks, winning customers from entrenched incumbents will not be easy. New entrants such as Bank Zero and Discovery Bank have been targeting millennials with mobile banking offers but to date have failed to really take off, Mokgabudi says.

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Taliban takeover means Afghanistan risks becoming cradle for global terrorism

Lack of technocratic expertise, with most educated people having fled, will make it hard to ensure the economy runs well enough to allow the Taliban ...
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Open Banking Nigeria

Nigeria: Open banking will trigger survival of the fittest

There are 73m active bank users, creating a huge amount of customer data which remains underexploited. Nigeria’s national target is for 95% of the adult ...
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northern sea route

Russian Northern Sea Route opening raises dangers of Arctic environment disaster

In May 2020 one of Russia’s worst ecological disasters occurred when a fuel tank owned by a subsidiary of Norilsk Nickel ruptured, dumping more than ...
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