{"id":176597,"date":"2019-11-21T00:38:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=262409"},"modified":"2019-11-21T00:38:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:38:58","slug":"opay-sets-lofty-africa-goal-after-bagging-120m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/21\/opay-sets-lofty-africa-goal-after-bagging-120m\/","title":{"rendered":"OPay sets lofty Africa goal after bagging $120M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tThe CEO of Nigeria-focused mobile wallet, ride sharing and food delivery app OPay targeted creation of the best fintech ecosystem Africa has ever seen, after securing $120 million in funding.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, OPay boss Yahui Zhou said the company would become a \u201ckey contributor to expanding financial inclusion in Africa &#8230; helping local businesses and workforces to thrive from opportunities created by new, digital business models.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added the new cash would be allocated to operations in countries with supporting regulation, citing opportunities in its existing market of Nigeria alongside Ghana, South Africa and Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>The company launched its mobile payment service in August 2018 and has since added a number of other consumer-facing products. Its latest cash injection comes less than five months after netting $50 million [1] from investors.<\/p>\n<p>Its latest backers include a SoftBank-run investment fund, DragonBall Capital, GaoRong Capital, Source Code Capital and IDG Capital.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/money\/news-money\/opay-targets-new-africa-markets-after-50m-funding\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of Nigeria-focused mobile wallet, ride sharing and food delivery app OPay targeted creation &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/money-home-banner\/opay-sets-lofty-africa-goal-after-bagging-120m\/\">OPay sets lofty Africa goal after bagging $120M<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/21\/opay-sets-lofty-africa-goal-after-bagging-120m\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,2419,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-JWl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176600,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176597\/revisions\/176600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}