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FinTech Accelerating Digital Transformation of Banking in Africa

The Startup Magazine

FinTech players are increasingly becoming an important part of the fabric of Africa’s financial services ecosystem and the leading banks on the continent are now more urgently seeking to harness technology innovations, collaborate with FinTech start‐ups, and create a platform to scale much faster – to make digital financial services pay.

Africa 84
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11 Compelling TED Talks On Money

YoungUpstarts

University of Nottingham’s Richard Wilkinson shares his life’s research on the matter here, hopefully offering up inspiration for citizens and governments to fight for higher life expectancies and improved public health. Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as our own. Eleni Gabre-Madhin: Ethiopian economics.

Ethiopia 188
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What Asia and Facebook’s Free Internet Project Have in Common?

Transformify

According to Nepali government officials, it will cost over $6.6bn and at least five years to reconstruct and rebuild the country. The investor’s business activities are governed by the applicable law in the country of domiciliation. The donations have most probably been utilized and the tourists are reluctant to visit Nepal.

Asia 40