QPay co-founders Zaki Bouguettaya and Muhammad Satti. Source: supplied.
Aussie student-focused fintech QPay has secured $1.15 million through an equity crowdfunding campaign, as it ramps up to meet a global opportunity in the disrupted university sector.
The Birchal campaign raised $1,149,658 from 745 investors, smashing its minimum target of $500,000.
Founded in 2014 by Andrew Clapham, Muhammad Satti, and Zaki Bouguettaya, QPay appeared on Shark Tank in 2018, securing $380,000 from Naomi Simson and Steve Baxter in one of the largest deals ever seen on the show.
At its core, QPay is an app offering cashback and rewards for university students, in a bid to encourage positive money management habits. It also offers a QPay card, issued by Mastercard, designed to incentivise saving and smart spending decisions.
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Report of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan (A/HRC/46/53)
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Agenda item 4
Summary
In the present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 43/27, the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan provides an overview of the situation of human rights in South Sudan and updates the Council on critical developments and incidents on which the Commission has collected and preserved evidence.
I. Introduction
In its resolution 31/20, the Human Rights Council established the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan for a period of one year. The Commission submitted its first report to the Council at its thirty-fourth session (A/HRC/34/63).
Violence is still raging in vast swathes of South Sudan a year after a peace deal was signed to end a civil war that began in 2013, a United Nations (UN) report said on Friday. Attacks by armed groups against civilians intensified in 2020 and victims are targeted along ethnic lines, often with the support of government and opposition forces, the report by the UN's Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said.