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MFS Africa invests in Cameroon s Maviance 2 hours ago Pan-African digital payments hub MFS Africa has made a $3 million investment in Cameroon-based fintech Maviance. Maviance operates a digital financial services platform, called Smobilpay, designed to help Cameroon s micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as their customers, ditch cash.
The platform serves over 500,000 unique customers a month, and has connected key service providers, payment providers, financial institutions and mobile money operators.
The new funding will be used to increase Maviance s footprint in Cameroon and to expand into other countries in the central African economic region.
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Wise looks to next generation of IT staff with coding school kood / Jõhvi 2 hours ago Money transfer platform Wise is collaborating on a cloud-based edcuational initiative to help solve an IT skills shortage in its home country of Estonia. Estonia, home to over 1,100 startups and 7 unicorns is currently short of thousands of IT specialists, and women occupy only 1/5 of jobs in the sector.
The new coding school, kood / Jõhvi, is aiming to bridge the gap, paving the way for hundreds of new IT specialists to enter the Estonian job market every year. The two-year study programme is built on a cloud-based platform where each student moves at their own pace, solving the tasks set by the system. There are no teachers or traditional classes in Jõhvi school and the studies
His country will also be looking for ways to broaden its trade interests, he told CNBC on Thursday.
Last week, China announced it would indefinitely suspend economic dialogue with Australia, the latest in the rift between both countries. Their relations have soured since last year after Canberra supported an international inquiry into China s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Trade in some products has been caught in the fallout. Beijing has for months targeted a growing list of imported products from Down Under putting tariffs on wine and barley, and suspending beef imports.
When asked on CNBC s Squawk Box Asia what he was willing to do to bring China to the negotiating table following the suspension, McCormack said: We ll be patient, we always are.
His country will also be looking for ways to broaden its trade interests, he told CNBC on Thursday.
Last week, China announced it would indefinitely suspend economic dialogue with Australia, the latest in the rift between both countries. Their relations have soured since last year after Canberra supported an international inquiry into China s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Trade in some products has been caught in the fallout. Beijing has for months targeted a growing list of imported products from Down Under putting tariffs on wine and barley, and suspending beef imports.
When asked on CNBC s Squawk Box Asia what he was willing to do to bring China to the negotiating table following the suspension, McCormack said: We ll be patient, we always are.