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How African firms can shape the global financial sector

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The financial remittances sector is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the world. In Africa, this sector accounts for hundreds of thousands of direct jobs and millions more indirectly.

The infrastructure invested by companies within this space plays a crucial role in linking the continent to hundreds of millions of Africans living and working in the diaspora, providing much-needed foreign exchange and maintaining a connection between emigrants and their African homes.

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