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Digital Payments Advance In India And Africa

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Online retail continues to grow in the country, and that market could hit $200 billion by 2026 if one goes by a Morgan Stanley estimate. Digital payments, FinTech and eCommerce are expanding slowly, but surely, in Africa. That market will grow at a 30 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) until then. “An

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Deep Dive: Making Smarter Payments Safer

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billion payments by 2026. In this model, an online platform acts as an intermediary by collecting consumers’ data while selling advertising opportunities to marketers. The market completed roughly 1.3 billion faster payments transactions between 2015 and 2016, and recent estimates project that number will reach approximately 2.3

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Amazon Vs. Alibaba: How The E-Commerce Giants Stack Up In The Fight To Go Global

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They also know how successful a retailer can be if it builds a leading e-commerce presence and brings a country into online retail. Those users combined to spend $18.38B on online retail from Sept ‘16 – Sept ‘17. Research from Morgan Stanley projects the online retail market will explode from $15B in 2016 to $200B in 2026.