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Bankless Banking Is Ready For Its Close-Up

YoungUpstarts

This will require many partners ā€“ credit card companies, banks, microcredit institutions, the United Nations, foundations and community leaders. In Kenya and Tanzania, over 25 million people use the M-Pesa mobile payments platform, operated by Safaricom and Vodacom, with money sent via text message. report concludes.ā€

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For tech to develop in emerging economies, the first obstacle is trust

The Next Web

In February I found myself seeking air-conditioned sanctuary in the Dar Es Salaam offices of Kinu , a co-working space and business accelerator, talking with Co-Founder and Community Manager John Paul Barretto. industry in Tanzania. Aside from the required infrastructure, labor conditions and ease of doing business, etc.,

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: TripBucket

crowdSPRING Blog

At Tripbucket our mission is to help people realize their dreams by providing a web-based and mobile platform to track those things our registered users have already accomplished and that which remains on their personal bucket list. Iā€™m speaking now as a web-based operator with no bricks and mortar.