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UBA partners with Cellulant to expand its Reach in 19 Markets across Africa
Africa ’ s global bank , United Bank for Africa ( UBA ) Plc and
Pan-African payments company Cellulant have announced a partnership that will extend payment services for merchants and consumers across 19 key African countries in which UBA operates .
MoU signing and most importantly into UBA ’ s expansive landscape . UBA is ready ; we are indeed set to dominate the entire digital banking space in Africa .”
The countries include Nigeria , Ghana , Kenya , Côte d ’ Ivoire , Zambia , Tanzania , Uganda , Republic of Benin , Burkina Faso , Cameroon , Chad , Congo , the Democratic Republic of Congo , Gabon , Guinea , Liberia , Mozambique , Sierra Leone and Senegal .
This network represents one of the primary tools in bringing together Africa ’ s fragmented payments ecosystem , ensuring Cellulant ’ s Payment Gateway , Tingg , is available to a vast number of merchants and consumers in each of these markets .
“ We are delighted to welcome the United Bank for Africa as a new banking partner ,” said Akshay Grover , Group CEO , Cellulant . “ As the payments landscape in Africa continues to evolve , we believe that FinTech ’ s and banks need to have a deeper collaboration in expanding opportunities that will help ease payments and collections for businesses and their consumers across all sectors of the economy .” Oliver Alawuba , Group Deputy Managing Director , UBA , said : “ We are happy to welcome Cellulant to Nigeria for this
KnowBe4 signs partnership agreement with BlueFort Security
UK-based cybersecurity company
BlueFort Security has signed a new partnership agreement with KnowBe4 , a provider of security awareness training and simulated phishing platform .
Under the terms of the agreement KnowBe4 will become BlueFort Security ’ s preferred security awareness training partner , further expanding BlueFort ’ s cybersecurity solutions which address key areas of cyber risk including end-point protection , discovery and classification , and identify and access management . In addition , KnowBe4 will become a core value-add offering within BlueFort Evolve , a cyberfocused services package . across Europe ,” said Tony Jennings , EVP of international and global channel sales , KnowBe4 . “ This new partnership provides us with endless new opportunities to help organisations better manage the ongoing problem of social engineering .”
Dave Henderson , CEO , Sales and Marketing , BlueFort Security commented : “ The impact of the past two years ’ disruption caused by COVID-19 has forced organisations to look differently at their cybersecurity needs . The combination of an increasingly mobile workforce and a worsening cybersecurity skills crisis has created a perfect storm for cyber criminals to do their worst . KnowBe4 is an important addition to our portfolio because it will help our customers tackle cybersecurity at the grass roots level .”
“ This is a very exciting partnership for KnowBe4 , and we look forward to working with BlueFort to deliver our security awareness training and simulated phishing platform to even more organisations
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