{"id":8837,"date":"2023-03-08T07:46:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T07:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/?p=8837"},"modified":"2024-07-17T06:50:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T06:50:12","slug":"circle-circle-and-aza-finance-advance-cross-border-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/circle-circle-and-aza-finance-advance-cross-border-utility\/","title":{"rendered":"Circle: Circle and AZA Finance advance cross-border utility","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Africa is showcasing how financial technology and digital infrastructure can scale to serve billions. Since the launch of M-Pesa in 2007, there has been a shift towards digital currencies and public blockchains to connect to global capital flows. Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO and Founder of AZA Finance, highlights the impact of blockchain on economic mobility and financial inclusion. AZA Finance helps businesses manage treasury, payments, and FX across Africa. Many clients are adopting digital currencies like Circle\u2019s USDC for cross-border transactions, benefiting from seamless, round-the-clock operations beyond traditional banking hours. Read it here. &quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:1053441,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Outfit&quot;,&quot;23&quot;:1}\" data-sheets-textstyleruns=\"{&quot;1&quot;:0}\uee10{&quot;1&quot;:650,&quot;2&quot;:{&quot;2&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:1136076},&quot;9&quot;:1}}\uee10{&quot;1&quot;:654}\" data-sheets-hyperlinkruns=\"{&quot;1&quot;:650,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.circle.com\/blog\/circle-and-aza-finance-advance-cross-border-utility&quot;}\uee10{&quot;1&quot;:654}\">Africa is showcasing how financial technology and digital infrastructure can scale to serve billions. Since the launch of M-Pesa in 2007, there has been a shift towards digital currencies and public blockchains to connect to global capital flows. Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO and Founder of AZA Finance, highlights the impact of blockchain on economic mobility and financial inclusion. AZA Finance helps businesses manage treasury, payments, and FX across Africa. Many clients are adopting digital currencies like Circle\u2019s USDC for cross-border transactions, benefiting from seamless, round-the-clock operations beyond traditional banking hours. Read it <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.circle.com\/blog\/circle-and-aza-finance-advance-cross-border-utility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa is showcasing how financial technology and digital infrastructure can scale to serve billions. Since the launch of M-Pesa in 2007, there has been a shift towards digital currencies and public blockchains to connect to global capital flows. Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO and Founder of AZA Finance, highlights the impact of blockchain on economic mobility and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":5,"featured_media":8838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[188,473,586,529,715,530,708,713,400,592,707,29,711,709,181,710,716,712,714],"class_list":["post-8837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aza-news","tag-africa","tag-aza-finance","tag-blockchain","tag-circle","tag-cross-border-transactions","tag-digital-currencies","tag-digital-infrastructure","tag-economic-mobility","tag-elizabeth-rossiello","tag-financial-inclusion","tag-financial-technology","tag-fx","tag-global-capital-flows","tag-m-pesa","tag-payments","tag-public-blockchains","tag-traditional-banking","tag-treasury-management","tag-usdc"],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}