AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 hours agoGreen Finance Push: Kyrgyzstan’s Guarantee Fund and the World Bank-backed MSME project will roll out a $59m green guarantee mechanism to back environmentally friendly tech and climate resilience. Fintech Expansion in Africa: MTN Group Fintech and Ant International are teaming up to launch a Nigeria MoMo super-app next quarter, aiming to bundle payments, savings and merchant tools with stronger fraud controls. Payments Infrastructure in Europe: ACI Worldwide is joining the European Payments Initiative to integrate Wero onto its payments orchestration platform, expanding pan-European instant account-to-account payments. Banking Regulation & Tax Tech: Bangladesh is considering faceless tax assessments and appeals to reduce discretion and boost revenue collection, while the Bangladesh Association of Banks backs the budget’s recapitalisation and risk-based supervision plans. Credit Cards Go Mainstream (Philippines): MariBank launches its first credit card with a debit-to-credit “single card” switch, and UnionBank hits 2m Visa cards and record payment volume. IPO Watch (South Korea): South Korea’s watchdog widened its probe of Mirae Asset Securities after it failed to secure SpaceX IPO share allocations. AI Governance Debate: Rayad Group weighs in on AI access, resilience and “technological sovereignty” amid frontier AI access concerns.
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