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Nium , the leading global infrastructure for real-timecross-borderpayments, today announced a partnership with Ecobank Transnational Incorporated., the leading independent pan-African financial services group, to enable seamless cross-borderpayments across 35 African markets for more than 32 million customers.
Nium , the leading global infrastructure for real-timecross-borderpayments, today announced that financial institutions can now leverage Swift capabilities and their existing Swift infrastructure to connect to Nium’s global real-timepayments network.
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