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Doing Well by Doing Good Coffee

February 28, 2017/MasterCard Adam Keal How Mastercard mobile payment technology is helping London’s homeless become baristas For a nation of supposed tea drinkers, British people consume more than 70 million cups of coffee each day. This is an upward trend that shows no signs of slowing. Consumer palates are becoming […]

VEON Plans to Roll out Masterpass

February 28, 2017/MasterCard Mastercard today announced a new business relationship with VEON, to bring Masterpass to their new VEON platform. As an international communications and technology company offering voice, fixed broadband, data and digital services to more than 235 million customers in 12 markets, VEON plans to offer its subscribers […]

SEFA commits close to US $1 million to energy access in The Gambia

Photo Credit: SaharaReporters 27/2/2017/AfDB The African Development Bank (AfDB)-managed Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) approved a US $995,000-grant to the Republic of The Gambia to implement a programme to facilitate private investments in Green Mini-Grids (GMG) through the creation of an enabling policy, institutional and regulatory framework, as well […]