APRNEWS - Payment solution company, Mastercard, is expanding its Engage programme in sub-Saharan Africa, with the events in Nigeria, and Kenya, to introduce local fintech innovators to its broad partnership opportunities.
 
Mastercard Engage, launched to fintechs in Nairobi, and Lagos, is a global partnership and development programme that builds digital payment technology ecosystems and enhances speed to market.

REUTERS - Visa (V.N) and Mastercard (MA.N) have offered to cut merchants’ charges for non-EU credit and debit cards by at least 40 percent to end an EU antitrust investigation, part of a decades-long crackdown by the European Commission against such fees.

APRNEWS - Stakeholders at the Techpoint Inspired 2018 programme have called on financial institutions and Deposit Money Banks to reduce transaction charges by 50 per cent in a bid to increase the number of financially included people.