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  "title": "FirstBank, PAPSS and the race to own Africa’s payment rails",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/firstbank-papss-and-the-race-to-own-africas-payment-rails",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-26T13:10:52.000Z",
  "source": {
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  "summary": "For decades, sending money from Lagos to other African countries was harder than sending it from Lagos to London. The post FirstBank, PAPSS and the race to own Africa’s payment rails appeared first on Nairametrics .",
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        "title": "FirstBank, PAPSS and the race to own Africa’s payment rails",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/firstbank-papss-and-the-race-to-own-africas-payment-rails",
        "published": "2026-08-24T15:05:24.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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