Lending with USSD – opportunities, challenges, and limitations
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Lending with USSD – opportunities, challenges, and limitations

While access to mobile phones is available, smartphones are not as easy to come by. For this reason, an alternative lending channel like USSD that is easily accessible becomes necessary.

Open banking in Africa: Continental progress made as of 2025
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Open banking in Africa: Continental progress made as of 2025

In London or Sydney, open banking was about breaking up bank monopolies. In Africa, it’s about building the pipes. Basic ones. The kind that lets people send money, access credit, or even check a bank balance without friction. Here, open banking isn’t just a policy play, it’s a workaround. A way to fill gaps that […]

How direct debit or debit orders works in Zambia
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How direct debit or debit orders works in Zambia

Direct debit, a payment mechanism allowing automatic recurring deductions from a customer’s account to pay bills or loans....