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The state of fintech companies – options for driving performance and profitability

B & FT Online 29 Sep 2023
From mobile money platforms that enable seamless transactions to peer-to-peer lending platforms that connect borrowers with lenders and investors alike, the fintech ecosystem has demonstrated a great potency to drive change and innovation in the financial sector.
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How do we raise trillions of dollars to fight the climate crisis? The answer is staring us in the face

The Observer 25 Sep 2023
Once we add the money released by the ambitious Bridgetown Agenda (devised by the prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley) and the Summers-Singh plan (which would radically refinance the multilateral development banks), the total funding for development kickstarted by the global windfall levy could reach $1tn.
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Zeepay’s profits surge 274.5% in 2022

B & FT Online 14 Aug 2023
Its operations in Barbados also started seamlessly, successfully completing mobile money licencing across four additional markets including Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Guyana ... largest mobile money operator globally by geography across Africa and the Caribbean,” said Mr.
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India vs West Indies 2nd ODI Live Score: Rohit Sharma-led IND eye series-clinching victory vs ...

Hindustan Times 29 Jul 2023
With a comprehensive victory over their hosts in the first ODI in Barbados, India will look to sew up the series against ... The disappointment of missing out on a World Cup berth has to be buried, and they will try to give India a run for their money in Barbados.
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Barbados's poet laureate is 'very upset' by Tory Richard Drax's claim not to be culpable ...

The Daily Mail 07 Jul 2023
Barbados's poet laureate has claimed she was left 'very upset' by Tory MP Richard Drax's insistence that he is not culpable for his family's slave-trading past. Mr Drax still owns a 250-hectare (617-acre) sugar plantation on Barbados that was built by his ancestors in the 17th century.
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Rihanna's beau A$AP Rocky shoots music video in Barbados - as couple await arrival of ...

The Daily Mail 30 Jun 2023
A$AP Rocky was spotted shooting a music video and giving back to the local community in Barbados on Friday - ahead of the arrival of his second child with Rihanna ... Barbados Pride ... The rapper even gave away money to every young kid in Barbados' poorest community ... Barbados holds a special place in the rapper's heart.
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IDB touts role of financial innovation in facing climate change

La Prensa Latina 22 Jun 2023
Both the IDB and the United States International Development Finance Corporation helped make that deal possible, Goldfajn said, while the IDB and the Nature Conservancy worked with Barbados to enable the island nation to invest in conservation money that would have gone toward servicing debt.
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Avinash Persaud has a plan for unlocking climate trillions with a global plan from a ...

News India Times 21 Jun 2023
“If you focus only on grants, only on people transferring money to you, you’re never going to get the scale we need to save the planet,” says Avinash Persaud, a Barbados-born, U.K.-raised development economist who was previously a banker in London.
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Avinash Persaud’s plan for unlocking climate trillions with a global plan gets traction

News India Times 21 Jun 2023
“If you focus only on grants, only on people transferring money to you, you’re never going to get the scale we need to save the planet,” says Avinash Persaud, a Barbados-born, U.K.-raised development economist who was previously a banker in London.
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’90 Day Fiancé’: Tyray Reacts After Finding Out Online ‘Girlfriend’ of Four Years Is a Man

Paulding Progress 12 Jun 2023
The episode saw Tyray trying to process things after the producers told him that “Carmella from Barbados” was actually a man named Christian, who had been catfishing him for money ... Tyray revealed that Carmella first asked him for money in 2019, and he initially told her no, after which she ignored him.
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Obi: Contrary to Reports, I Was Never Arrested in London

This Day 02 May 2023
•Says he was only stopped for routine immigration checks ... I helped them to raise money then, over $200,000. So, I have been to Haiti and also Barbados, but I don’t know Solomon Island ... Instead of using that money to fix it, he used the money to go to Washington, just to accuse someone who lives in Onitsha of treason ... Obi, who described Prof.
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Bajan lawyer jailed for stealing from client

Jamaica Observer 25 Apr 2023
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC)— A High Court judge in Barbados has sentenced a lawyer to five years in jail for stealing nearly BDS$500,000 (J$38 million) from the beneficiaries of a deceased client ... Lynch is the fourth lawyer in Barbados to be jailed in recent years for stealing clients’ money.
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Former Barbados government minister released from US prison

Jamaica Observer 26 Mar 2023
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Former Barbados Government Minister Donville Inniss, who was convicted of money laundering in the United States, returned to Barbados late Saturday after spending two years in prison.
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Former government minister released from US prison, returns to Barbados

The Gleaner 26 Mar 2023
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC). Former Government Minister Donville Inniss who was convicted of money laundering in the United States of America, returned home late Saturday after spending two years in prison. The 57-year-old former St James South... .
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Before collapse, Credit Suisse quietly conquered an obscure debt market

Independent online (SA) 22 Mar 2023
Last year, it sealed a $150 million deal for Barbados ... The Belize deal was "free money for Credit Suisse because they hold no risk whatsoever," he said ... The bank raised money for Belize and Barbados from pension funds including Sweden's Alecta and Nuveen, a unit of the United States' TIAA, by issuing so-called blue bonds tied to the deals.
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