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News/retail
BBVA has become the first Emea-based financial services institution to sign a Whole Portfolio Agreement (WPA) with Cisco in Europe and Latin America.
07 March 2024
Revolut is rolling out an 'eSIM' service to help UK customers combat soaring data roaming bills when abroad.
12 February 2024
News/payments
Mastercard has purchased a minority stake in the fintech business unit of African mobile phone network MTN.
14 August 2023
News/people
Gigs, a telecom-as-a-service platform that makes it easier for companies to sell phone and data plans to their customers, has hired Stripe and Nubank veteran Rafael Plantier as head of financial services.
20 April 2023
Dash, a Ghanian fintech attempting to create a mobile money equivalent of the Visa and Mastercard networks in Africa, has raised $32.8 million in an oversubscribed seed round.
08 March 2022
Bharti Airtel has struck a deal with India’s Axis bank to roll out a range of financial services products to its 340 million customers.
News/inclusion
The Rise Fund, the impact investing arm of TPG, is to invest $200 million in Airtel Africa’s mobile money business, at a $2.65 billion valuation.
18 March 2021
French telco Orange is looking to find new investors for its loss-making banking startup.
05 March 2021
News/security
Russian Bank Tinkoff has partnered with the nation's three biggest mobile operators to develop a fraud detection system designed to protect customers from the spoofing of bank phone numbers
21 December 2020
BBVA and Telefónica have established a joint venture company to sell loans to consumers and companies in Colombia.
04 December 2020
Telco Orange has joined with bancassurance outfit NSIA to launch Orange Bank Africa, catering to the needs of the continent's financially underserved.
24 July 2020
News/cloud
Westpac is rolling out fibre optic network technology across all of its branches in an initiative to boost download speeds for customers and improve video-conferencing connectivity.
15 July 2020
News/startups
Scottish fintech startup Aveni has raised £520,000 for its video conferencing-based AI technology.
03 June 2020
News/wholesale
Banking giant HSBC is rolling out a video-first enterprise communications platform from vendor Zoom around the world.
10 September 2019
News/Telecomms
A new Barclays Corporate Banking report published today reveals that 5G could increase UK business revenues by a staggering £15.7 billion by 2025, despite industry leaders admitting they do not know enough about the benefits of the technology.
03 April 2019
OCBC Bank has formed a collaborative alliance with Singaporean telco StarHub to invest in research into the convergence of banking and communications in the digital economy.
09 October 2017
Altice is the latest telecoms operator with designs on entering the European online banking market, according to a report from Retuers.
13 July 2017
Indian telco Bharti Airtel has acquired a stake in fintech loan startup Seynse Technologies.
23 February 2017
India's largest telco, Airtel, has announced the national launch of the country's first mobile payments bank.
12 January 2017
UAE telco Etisalat is to lunch a mobile wallet using applications from Oberthur Technologies.
19 October 2016
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