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ACRE Africa Launches Financial Literacy Training for Smallholder Farmers in Zambia

In partnership with Agora Microfinance, Synergy Seeds, and the Sustainable Agriculture Foundation Africa, ACRE Africa kicked off a financial literacy training program aimed at empowering 85,000 smallholder farmers across Zambia by December 2025

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Auquan Secures $4.5 M in Seed Funding to Revolutionize Fintech With AI-Driven Deep Work Automation

Auquan, a trailblazer in AI for financial services, recently announced a significant boost to its seed funding, securing an additional $4.5 million.

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Ethiopia’s Digital Economy to Contribute ETB 1.3 Trillion to GDP by 2028, Unlocking Jobs and Growth Through Telecom and Policy Reforms

These advancements are expected to create over 1 million new jobs and generate an additional ETB 57 billion in tax revenues by 2028.

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Visa Teams up With USAID for Financial Inclusion Push

Visa is joining forces with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to improve access to digital government and payment systems across the world.

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IFC and Equity Bank of Kenya Partner in Landmark Facility to Support Financial Inclusion for Refugees

The $20 million facility will boost financial inclusion for individuals and small businesses in Kenya’s most underserved regions that serve as a home to hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced people from countries across Africa.

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Applications Are Open For The 2025 Leadership & Diversity Program For Regulators

Supporting financial regulators to develop policies that close the gender gap in financial inclusion; building the women’s leadership pipeline in regulatory organizations.

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Mastercard Debuts New Open Banking-Powered Tools That Put Consumers in Control of Their Data, Safely and Securely

Mastercard introduces Connect Plus, a data-consent command center, and new enhanced identity and device intelligence features.

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Al Tadamun Microfinance, CIB Sign Credit Facility Agreement Worth EGP 150M

Al Tadamun Microfinance Foundation, a leader in financing micro-enterprises for women, announced that it had signed an agreement with the Commercial International Bank – Egypt (CIB) to renew a credit facility agreement worth EGP 150m.

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Global Neobank Fingular Among First to Expand into Bangladesh to Achieve Historic Breakthrough in Financial Inclusion, Eyes Digital Bank License

Fingular, a Singapore-based global neobank, is getting ready to rapidly launch an innovative digital lending business in Bangladesh through a strategic partnership with a local licensed Non-Banking Financial Institution, with a goal to accelerate financial inclusion.

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Call for Microfinance Institutions and Resource Persons in Microinsurance in Ethiopia

The training will touch base on microfinance institutions’ diversification of financial products, risk mitigation mechanisms, the importance of selling insurance products for microfinance institutions and how to develop such products.