Finance
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Visa partners with Paga on payments and fintech for Africa and abroad
Visa has entered a partnership with Nigeria based startup Paga on payments and technology. Founded in Lagos, Paga scaled its…
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Stocks fall again on continued coronavirus worries
Is it good news to say that stocks fell less sharply than they had on previous days? That’s the bright…
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Frontline Ventures raises new $80M fund focused on bringing US firms to Europe
Frontline Ventures, based in Dublin and London, has announced a new $80 million fund designed to assist U.S. tech companies…
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South Korea passes one of the world’s first comprehensive cryptocurrency laws
The South Korean National Assembly passed new legislation today that will provide a framework for the regulation and legalization of…
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Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019?
Five years ago, it was hard to come by any numbers for annual VC investment in Africa. These days the…
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Robinhood offers $15 discount, blames outage on record trades
It wasn’t the leap year, a coding blip, or a hack that caused Robinhood’s massive outages yesterday and today that…
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Leap Finance raises $5.5M to democratize financing for foreign-bound Indian students
Tens of thousands of Indians move to the United States to pursue higher education each year. But like many others…
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Robinhood suffers prolonged outage on the day the Dow enjoyed its single biggest point gain
Robinhood, the startup with a stock trading app valued upwards of at least $7.6 billion, suffered one of its worst…
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