<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">Interesting...Most of the incumbent players are one by one abandoning Libra. What gives? Pressure from regulators? </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2019/10/21/here-are-all-the-companies-that-bailed-on-facebooks-libra/#674681de3487">Here</a> are some of the other companies that have bailed out on Libra. The list includes <span style="background-color:rgb(252,252,252);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Mercado Pago and eBay.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><b style=""><font size="2"><br></font></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">Pressure from regulators and policy makers is real.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">Regards</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><b style=""><font size="2"><br></font></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><b style=""><font size="2">Ali
Hussein</font></b></font></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><span>T<font size="2">el: +254 713 60<font size="2">1113</font></font><br></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><span>Twitter: @AliHKassim</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2" face="georgia, serif">
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<span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 4:10 PM Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.42857rem;padding:0px;font-family:"open sans",sans-serif,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Vodafone has withdrawn from Facebook’s digital currency initiative Libra, as regulators and bureaucrats circle overhead.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.42857rem;padding:0px;font-family:"open sans",sans-serif,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">While Facebook might have become accustomed to sitting in the regulatory spotlight, it seems other companies are not as accepting of the attention. In an increasing tsunami of regulatory scrutiny, Vodafone has become the latest company to withdraw from the Libra initiative, joining the likes of Paypal and Mastercard.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.42857rem;padding:0px;font-family:"open sans",sans-serif,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">“Vodafone Group has decided to withdraw from the Libra Association,” a Vodafone spokesperson said.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.42857rem;padding:0px;font-family:"open sans",sans-serif,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">“We have said from the outset that Vodafone’s desire is to make a genuine contribution to extending financial inclusion. We remain fully committed to that goal and feel that we can make the most contribution by focusing our efforts on M-Pesa. We will continue to monitor the development of the Libra Association and do not rule out the possibility of future co-operation.”</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.42857rem;padding:0px;font-family:"open sans",sans-serif,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.42857rem;padding:0px;line-height:1.6;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#222222" face="open sans, sans-serif, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><a href="https://telecoms.com/501960/vodafone-snubs-libra-in-favour-of-m-pesa/" target="_blank">https://telecoms.com/501960/vodafone-snubs-libra-in-favour-of-m-pesa/</a></span></font><br></p></div>
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