For PayPal and Flutterwave, road to unite Africa’s payment system opens

A report by GSMA found that the cost of sending money to Africa reaches 12.4 percent of the face value of the transaction on average

Lekan Olaseni, a Nigerian-based web designer, began life as a freelancer in 2012 and has witnessed firsthand how people in other continents make cross-border payments with ease. As a foreign student living in the Republic of Georgia, with a PayPal account registered in Estonia, he would often get

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