African banks have been late to the fintech party, but after leaving huge swaths of the population to get their financial services from telcos (most famously Safaricom’s M-Pesa in Kenya), banks here are increasingly seeing the continent as a testing ground for new financial technologies like bitcoin and the blockchain.
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Africa’s big banks are betting on fintech startups and bitcoin to beat disruption
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Feb 22, 2016