Category: Banking Industry
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Liberia: Audit Reveals Unapproved Disbursements by Central Bank of Liberia for 2019 Independence Day Celebrations
MONROVIA – In 2019, around the July 26 Independence Celebration, the Central Bank of Liberia made several disbursements totaling US$730,000 to the Liberia National Police, the National Security Agency, and the Ministry of State for Presidential Affairs without any approved policy. An audit by the General Auditing Commission (GAC), the nation’s supreme audit body, discovered…
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Tanzania considers introducing single-payment tax system to improve business environment
This initiative aims to address the current tax system where businesses face multiple payments to different government institutions, including the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) and local councils, a practice that has been criticized by entrepreneurs as cumbersome and expensive. “We have already heard the complaints and the government continues with discussions to establish a single…
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All assets acquired corruptly in Zimbabwe and stashed overseas will be uncovered and confiscated, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) and the country’s prosecutor-general say
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe’s Prosecutor-General, Justice Loice Matanda Moyo, and ZACC Chairperson Michael Reza made the statement at a capacity building workshop on financial investigations and asset recovery, organized by the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR). “It is time that we totally eradicate corruption in Zimbabwe and recover the stolen assets. As a result of these…
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Zimbabweans forced to use US dollar in absence of new currency ZiG
🇿🇼 Here we go again: Zimbabweans forced to use US dollar in absence of new currency ZiG Zimbabwe’s informal traders who account for about 75% of all employment in the nation have stopped accepting the ZIMdollar also know as RTGS dollar fearing its value has declined. The new ZIG currency which was supposed to be…
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Banking giant Wells Fargo suffers data breach, sends two notification letters
American multinational bank Wells Fargo has informed two of its customers about a data breach. The personal information involved includes names of clients and mortgage account numbers. The financial services company claims to be responsible for safeguarding customer information and promptly responded to the incident as it arose. It’s not yet clear when the attack…
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David v. Goliath: Small language models challenge Big Tech’s AI giants
Community-owned small language model project introduces a framework for incentivized data sharing, aiming to redefine AI development and user interaction. Assisterr targets the monopolization of AI by Big Tech, advocating for data ownership and the democratization of AI through community-owned small language models (SLMs), which offer tailored and efficient solutions. The debate on whether artificial…
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Zimbabwe’s transition to new ZiG currency reportedly prompts banking disruptions
🇿🇼 Banking operations in Zimbabwe have been disrupted as financial institutions rushed to convert all Zimbabwe dollar account balances to ZiG, the new legal tender, media reported. Thus, ZimSwitch, the national payments platform provider, revealed that processing of local dollar transactions across financial institutions is currently unavailable. Nedbank, a South African banking giant operating in…
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Ethiopian securities exchange reaches capital raise target needed for operations
🇪🇹 The Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX) has achieved a milestone by meeting its initial capital raise target of $11.07 million required to kickstart its operations, the ESX said in a statement. The exchange announced that the fundraising effort was oversubscribed, with offers totaling $26.6 million from both domestic and foreign commercial investors, demonstrating robust interest…
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Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for FTX fraud
The co-founder and CEO of FTX has been sentenced. FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to a total of 300 months, or 25 years, in prison for seven counts of conspiracy and fraud charges stemming from the collapse of the crypto exchange he started. The judge applied a 240-month sentence and a 60-month sentence to…
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🇺🇬 Salaam Bank launches Uganda’s first Islamic bank
A unit of Djibouti-based Salaam Group launched in Uganda on Wednesday as the country’s first Islamic banking-compliant financial institution, the Ugandan president’s office said. The launch of the Salaam Bank Limited’s operations follows a law legalising Islamic banking in the east African country last year. Islamic finance follows Islamic religious principles such as bans on…
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