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The move is expected to make accounts more secure using unique identifiers.

The Interbranch Fund for Funding and Agricultural Advice (FIRCA) welcomed delegations from Ghana and Nigeria earlier this year.

HASAL Microfinance Bank Limited no longer charges commissions on turnover.

A new mobile money transfer service, born of a partnership between Orange Telecom and Ecobank, is about to launch in Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea Conakry, Niger, Senegal and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has announced an advisory services agreement with Microfinance Institute Advans Cameroun.

Billionaire and Microsoft founder Bill Gates has suggested mobile banking will alleviate poverty in Africa.

Ethiopian banks and micro-finance firms will soon be launching mobile money services.

Improving women’s access to finance in North Africa would decrease poverty throughout the region, especially in rural areas.

Last year, African equity markets recorded their highest level of activity in five years.

Opportunities for Islamic finance are to grow over the next few years, according to experts gathered at the sixth African Islamic Finance Forum (FAFI).

The IMF believes that supervisory capacity is constrained.

Twenty out of the 24 million inhabitants of the Ivory Coast now use mobile banking, according to data released by the Association of Ivory Coast Banks and Finance professionals (APBEF-CI).