LAGOS, Nigeria – As part of its renewed global strategy, pan-African payments infrastructure, Kora has launched USD card-acquiring, allowing merchants on its platform to accept payments in US dollars. Kora’s Payin service allows merchants to receive customer payments using various popular payment methods, including mobile money, bank transfers and cards. USD card-acquiring is the latest addition to Kora’s suite of currencies that include NGN bank account issuing, payins, payouts and crossborder settlement across multiple countries.

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LAGOS, Nigeria – Pan African payment infrastructure, Kora and Healthtracka, a digital health platform making lab testing easy and convenient, have partnered to provide self-sampling cervical cancer test kits for women in Nigeria.  

As a business with different digital products, Kora enables Healthtracka to accept customer payments easily and securely. “We are obsessed with our user journey when booking a lab test on our platform, from search to payment and getting the actual service.

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LAGOS, Nigeria – On a mission to train over 10,000 young people in software engineering for free across Africa in ten years, the first cohort of students has graduated from Kora’s software school – The Curve Africa.

Located in the heart of Ajegunle, Lagos, Nigeria, The Curve Africa is a software engineering academy that teaches and provides hands-on experience for six months to underprivileged young people interested in building a career in technology whilst also training students on soft skills and workplace ethics, preparing them to advance their careers in software development, product design, DevOps engineering and other technology-related fields.

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England, UK, August 2022– As the Commonwealth Games opened in Birmingham, the UK, pan-African payments infrastructure, Kora was announced as a new Commonwealth-sourced foreign direct investments (FDI) project for the West Midlands. India’s first credit platform, The Disposal Company, was also announced alongside Kora.Business leaders and government officials gathered at the International Convention Centre, organised in partnership with the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council, as Kora was unveiled during a presentation at the Commonwealth Business Forum.

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BIRMINGHAM, England, June, 2022 – Kora, the company building Africa's high-fidelity payment infrastructure, today announces the launch of its UK office. Kora partnered with the Government of Birmingham to power this expansion via the West Midlands Growth Company, an organisation responsible for driving regional investment promotion and economic development for the West Midlands and the UK. Located at the heart of the UK's fastest-growing region in terms of technology, Birmingham was chosen as Kora's first UK office because of its solid infrastructure and ease of access to talent. With this partnership, the West Midlands Growth Company will support Kora's ambition to provide the infrastructure that allows local African businesses to go global and global companies to go local in Africa.

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• Payment infrastructure, Kora cleared of fraud allegations in Kenya
• Asset Recovery Agency (ARA) and Kenya Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) clear Kora of fraud allegations 

LAGOS, Nov 22: Charges have been dropped against Kora, the pan-African payment company accused of money laundering and card fraud last July in Kenya. In new court documents, Kenya's Asset Recovery Agency filed a notice of withdrawal at the High Court of Kenya at Nairobi Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Division. In the document drawn and filed on the 19th of October 2022,

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