{"id":3749,"date":"2023-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.azafinance.com\/2023\/05\/09\/enhanced-cross-border-payments-next-stage-of-african-fintech-evolution-aza-finance\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T07:48:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T07:48:04","slug":"enhanced-cross-border-payments-next-stage-of-african-fintech-evolution-aza-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/enhanced-cross-border-payments-next-stage-of-african-fintech-evolution-aza-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhanced cross-border payments next stage of African fintech evolution \u2013 AZA Finance","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Overview<\/h4>\n<p>Nana Yaw Owusu Banahene, AZA Finance Country Manager, has highlighted cross-border payments and other underutilised financial services as the next big step for fintech in Africa. While there are already initiatives such as the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS), Banahene notes that fintechs should focus on enabling cross-border payments for retail trade, which could significantly drive growth in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/thebftonline.com\/2023\/05\/04\/enhanced-cross-border-payments-next-stage-of-african-fintech-evolution-aza-finance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Nana Yaw Owusu Banahene, AZA Finance Country Manager, has highlighted cross-border payments and other underutilised financial services as the next big step for fintech in Africa. While there are already initiatives such as the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS), Banahene notes that fintechs should focus on enabling cross-border payments for retail trade, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":1,"featured_media":8581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[188,338,473,507,402,347,31,508,509],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aza-news","tag-africa","tag-africa-fintech","tag-aza-finance","tag-business-and-financial-times","tag-finance","tag-fintech","tag-ghana","tag-nana-yaw-owusu-banahene","tag-the-money-summit"],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}