Africa’s largest mobile network operator MTN has sold a minority stake in its fintech arm to the payment giant Mastercard to support the acceleration and growth of the business’s payments and remittance services.
The partnership aims to target Asian tourists travelling to Thailand and shopping at brands under Central Retail, providing them with convenient checkout methods via Alipay+ with their local mobile wallet
In addition to the investment, South Korea’s telecom operator has entered into a partnership agreement with AI provider Anthropic to build a large language model (LLM) customized for telcos
The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MoCCAE), the Industrial Innovation Group LLC and Venom Foundation to jointly establish a national system for carbon credits using blockchain technology
To be eligible for the new Cryptocurrencies Hub, a PayPal user must have “a personal PayPal account and a Balance Account in good standing”
The Project Cypress by Battelle and clean technology developers Climeworks and Heirloom received Notification of Selection from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hubs program
The AI system discovered over 95K scam lists between June 2022 and June 2023 that were created from 87,617 accounts on the X (former Twitter) social network
The US securities regulator extended the decision deadline on a joint spot bitcoin ETF application from ARK/21Shares and sought public comment
The funding round led by Mubadala and BlackRock brought African-born, global mobility fintech Moove $76M to accelerate its expansion
The Agency for Access to Public Information in Argentina adds to the list of government bodies globally investigating Worldcoin over privacy concerns
The Reserve Bank of India is using innovative fintech developments to strengthen the country’s UPI payment system with AI-powered “conversational” payments
Digital artefacts and related content are to become new objects of civil rights in Ukraine, opening up new legal ways of money-making for Ukrainians
AWS Build is a new global program aimed to support entrepreneurs at early business stages to build, refine, and launch their innovative applications
Aptos Labs is integrating Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service into its blockchain network to create new web3 builder resources
Being already used for bridging, the Base mainnet is to open for everyone and all use cases on August 9
The new service can potentially benefit 100 million mobile phone users across the continent
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