{"id":192312,"date":"2025-02-26T17:35:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T15:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/rwanda-ghana-launch-new-cross-border-payment-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T17:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T15:35:37","slug":"rwanda-ghana-launch-new-cross-border-payment-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/rwanda-ghana-launch-new-cross-border-payment-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda, Ghana Launch New Cross-Border Payment Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The National Bank of Rwanda and the Bank of Ghana, in partnership with Global Finance and Technology Network (GFTN), have launched Africa&#8217;s Next-Gen Digital Payment Infrastructure to facilitate real-time cross-border transactions and accelerate the continent&#8217;s digital economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Formerly Elevandi, GFTN is a not-for-profit organisation established by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in 2024 to serve expanding Singapore&#8217;s fintech ecosystem globally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Formally known as Project 54, the new&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502260280.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Bank of Rwanda and the Bank of Ghana, in partnership with Global Finance and Technology Network (GFTN), have launched Africa&#8217;s Next-Gen Digital Payment Infrastructure to facilitate real-time cross-border transactions and accelerate the continent&#8217;s digital economy. Formerly Elevandi, GFTN is a not-for-profit organisation established by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in 2024 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":192313,"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":[4507],"tags":[258,256,6503,4508,4509,9864,5741,257,10122,4702,254],"class_list":["post-192312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crossborder","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-infrastructure","tag-launch","tag-news","tag-payment","tag-rwanda","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\/192312","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=192312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}