{"id":9014,"date":"2018-03-21T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/?p=9014"},"modified":"2024-07-15T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T10:01:18","slug":"disrupt-africa-bitpesa-launches-in-ghana-to-expand-west-african-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/disrupt-africa-bitpesa-launches-in-ghana-to-expand-west-african-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Disrupt Africa: BitPesa launches in Ghana to expand West African footprint","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya-based payments startup BitPesa has launched a suite of services in Ghana to expand its West African footprint. Founded in Nairobi in 2013, BitPesa is a digital foreign exchange and payment platform that uses blockchain to lower costs and increase payment speed in frontier markets. With offices in Lagos, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, and Dakar, BitPesa now offers Ghanaians the ability to make payments in more than ten currencies and buy and sell bitcoins. The launch aims to promote intra-African trade and lower payment costs between Ghana and other trading partners like Nigeria. Read it <a class=\"waffle-rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/disruptafrica.com\/2018\/03\/21\/bitpesa-launches-in-ghana-to-expand-west-african-footprint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya-based payments startup BitPesa has launched a suite of services in Ghana to expand its West African footprint. Founded in Nairobi in 2013, BitPesa is a digital foreign exchange and payment platform that uses blockchain to lower costs and increase payment speed in frontier markets. With offices in Lagos, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, and Dakar, BitPesa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":4,"featured_media":9015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[585,586,459,400,760,185,31,917,199,181,415],"class_list":["post-9014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aza-news","tag-bitpesa","tag-blockchain","tag-digital-currency","tag-elizabeth-rossiello","tag-expansion","tag-foreign-exchange","tag-ghana","tag-intra-african-trade","tag-nigeria","tag-payments","tag-west-africa"],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}