{"id":176890,"date":"2024-07-19T20:57:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T18:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-new-lta-regulations-to-empower-fintech\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T20:57:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T18:57:28","slug":"liberia-new-lta-regulations-to-empower-fintech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-new-lta-regulations-to-empower-fintech\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: New LTA Regulations to Empower Fintech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Liberian authorities are shaking up the country&#8217;s telecommunications landscape with a new set of regulations designed to empower fintech companies and foster a more competitive mobile market. The Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) introduced these groundbreaking rules, targeting numbering resources and access to telecom networks for Value-Added Services (VAS).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Historically, Liberia&#8217;s mobile sector has been dominated by a few major players, making it difficult for innovative fintech&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407190435.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberian authorities are shaking up the country&#8217;s telecommunications landscape with a new set of regulations designed to empower fintech companies and foster a more competitive mobile market. The Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) introduced these groundbreaking rules, targeting numbering resources and access to telecom networks for Value-Added Services (VAS). Historically, Liberia&#8217;s mobile sector has been dominated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":176891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,7924,21009,4712,1107,8232,257,14785,254],"class_list":["post-176890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-empower","tag-fintech","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lta","tag-news","tag-regulations","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}