October 13, 2022

Central bank digital currencies are not relevant

40 minutes

Today on the Techpoint Africa Podcast, we discuss some of the hot topics in the African tech space.

The stories:

Owing salaries in Nigeria could become a crime

Google partnering with Coinbase to accept crypto as payment for cloud services

Namibia to get central bank digital currency

NALA launches a new product that allows the Kenyan diaspora to pay bills on M-PESA

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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
01:30 - Owing salaries in Nigeria
11:01 - Google to start accepting cryptocurrency for cloud services
18:30 - Namibia is launching a central bank digital currency
30:11 - Kenyan diaspora can now pay for bills directly

Useful links

Owing salaries is about to become a crime in Nigeria

Google will start accepting crypto payments for its cloud services next year

Namibian Central Bank Announces Plan to Launch CBDC

Tanzanian fintech, NALA, launches a new feature for Kenyan diaspora customers

This episode was produced by Ogheneruemu Oneyibo and Gracious Sede

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Music - Beach by MBB

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