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RedCloud and KongaPay partner to bring
Banking as a Platform to Nigeria
to offer innovative digital financial services via its rapidly
growing merchant network, with merchants benefiting from
increased footfall and resulting bottom-line revenues.
Justin Floyd, CEO at RedCloud comments: “We believe
Nigeria will realise its considerable untapped potential from
this new kind of technology platform as it enables banks,
retailer and agents to work together to deliver financial
services at scale. Konga is a company we have admired for
some time and who have a proven record in e-commerce.
We are delighted to partner with them to offer a new
technology model: one platform connecting all stakeholders
in the financial ecosystem.”
RedCloud Technologies, the world’s first open banking
platform, has announced a partnership with Nigeria’s
KongaPay; the payment system which aims to facilitate
the initiation and completion of transactions in a seamless
manner that allows unbanked customers to pay online.
Through the Banking as a Platform model, a first for Nigeria,
KongaPay will use RedCloud technology to enable the banks
Speaking about the partnership Olayemi Jinadu, VP, Payment
Products and Digital Goods, Konga Online Shopping Ltd, said
“KongaPay payment solution’s partnership with RedCloud
attests to our drive to make Nigerians and Africans at large
experience the best of service at their convenience. This
means we constantly evolve to be more relevant to customers
and society. KongaPay is designed to be fast, reliable, secure,
flexible and above all provides a best-in-class financial solution
to Nigerians and Africa.”
MDXi targets enterprise customers with
new ‘Take a Break’ campaign
West Africa’s premier data centre
solutions provider, MDXi (a MainOne
company), has launched an advertising
campaign aimed at reinforcing the
company’s position as the data centre
provider of choice for enterprises in
the region. Tagged ‘Take a Break’,
the campaign will increase awareness
of the MDXi brand as the
most interconnected and
reliable West African data
centre company and urges
C-level executives across
the region to take a break
from the rigors of managing
in-house IT and outsource
their IT infrastructure needs
to MDXi.
The campaign, which
began in October in Nigeria
and Ghana, builds on the
company’s expansion efforts
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across Nigeria and West Africa. The
campaign is expected to spotlight the
company’s data centre initiatives not
only in Nigeria, but across West Africa
– including its Accra facility, a new data
centre in Sagamu, Ogun State Nigeria,
and planned development in Abidjan,
Cote D’Ivoire.
“Unknown to local enterprises that
outsource their data centre needs
off-shore, MDXi is home to numerous
large multinationals that West Africans
interact with daily online as we have
raised the bar to provide world-class
ICT and data centre solutions, at par
with similar facilities in Europe, Asia
and America,” says
MDXi General Manager,
Gbenga Adegbiji.
MainOne’s MDXI
has put Nigeria on
the global map with
its premier tier III
Lekki data centre, the
only data centre in
West Africa that is
authorised to process
and store payment card
information with its PCI
DSS certification.
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