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Innovation hub seeking to boost technology funding

A NEWLY-LAUNCHED innovation hub aims to give Bahamian digital assets and technology entrepreneurs direct access to international financing by forging links with California's Silicon Valley. Davinia Bain, co-founder of Crypto-Isle and the Kanoo Innovation Hub, told Tribune Business that the latter’s website will be soliciting individuals...

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Bahamas ‘going in reverse’ through 20% cash increase

The Bahamas is “going in reverse” by increasing physical cash in circulation by 20 percent, a digital payments provider argued yesterday, even though its Sand Dollar roll-out is “the model for the rest of the world”. Nicholas Rees, Kanoo Pays’ chairman and co-founder, told the Bahamas...

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Kanoo developing a super app for the Caribbean

Kanoo Pays is developing a “super app” for the Caribbean that can handle multiple currencies and hold all of a user’s financial information, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), and cryptocurrencies, the company’s Chairman and co-founder Nicholas Rees said yesterday. Rees made the announcement while a panelist...

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QC goes cashless with NFC payment tech

Queen’s College has, with the help of Kanoo Pays, implemented a smart ID card system for students that serves as an identification card and also enables cashless transactions on campus, the school’s Principal Rev. Henry Knowles explained yesterday. The smart ID card system is another product...

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Kanoo chairman promotes Bahamian fintech solutions at FiX 24

Speaking on the critical role of financial technology (fintech) in the Caribbean’s emerging markets, Nick Rees, chairman and co-founder of Kanoo Pays – one of the nation’s leading digital payment solutions providers – said it is essential these new innovations connect people and industries throughout...

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