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Africa’s big banks are betting on fintech startups and bitcoin to beat disruption

Africa’s big banks are betting on fintech startups and bitcoin to beat disruption

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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