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As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2018, we take a look back at our most popular news items and community engagement activities over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 2 January 2019.
21 December 2018
After news that Orange had joined forces with MTN, one of Africa’s largest telcos, to form an interoperable mobile money transfer service dubbed Mowali, the new bank revealed the economics behind diversifying their mobile financial services at an event on Friday.
30 November 2018
Two of Africa's largest telcos MTN and Orange have formed a joint venture to create an interoperable mobile money transfer service for payments across the continent.
23 November 2018
With Nigeria's financial system increasingly reliant on fintech platforms, the country's central bank is proposing a new licensing regime for players in the fast-growing sector.
21 November 2018
On the day of the bitcoin nosedive to the lowest price seen in 2018, LendIt Europe 2018 attendees heard former chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne reveal that the idea of a globally accepted digital currency is being advocated in political circles.
Online trading and investment platform eToro is pumping $1 million into an open source community project that aims to reduce global wealth inequality through the creation of a cryptocurrency that pays "social interest" to those who have less.
08 November 2018
Western Union has partnered with Safaricom, Kenya’s mobile network and wallet provider to allow 28 million M-Pesa users to send outbound money transfers overseas.
07 November 2018
For the seventh year running, Money 20/20 put on an impressive show in Las Vegas and welcomed thousands of innovators from the fintech and banking industries to learn about disruption and forge business connections.
01 November 2018
MoneeMint has scored a strategic investment from Ground One Ventures to help it build a digital-only "ethical bank" in the UK and Europe. Details of the funding were not disclosed.
31 October 2018
Taking a step back from innovation for the day, this year’s Money 20/20 Las Vegas event concluded with banking executives and fintech players sharing their personal experiences of the financial services industry.
24 October 2018
Litecoin’s Charlie Lee contradicted popular belief on day three of Money 20/20 by stating that cryptocurrency encourages free movement of money and blockchain advocates should expect a positive change in privacy protocol, as fungibility is the only missing component for widespread adoption.
Nationwide Building Society is injecting £3 million in funding to encourage fintech startups and academics to develop Open Banking apps that can help to improve the lives of the one in four UK households who are financially squeezed – equivalent to 12.7 million people.
15 October 2018
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