Cointelegraph goes to Senegal, West Africa. The medium-sized African nation recently hosted a Bitcoin conference (BTC) and more and more merchants and customers are joining the Lightning Network. Arm...
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SEC’s ‘Lack of Clarity’ Latest Target for Twitter’s ‘Crypto CFA’
Ram Ahluwalia has a thing or two to say about crypto. The self-styled “crypto CFA” has carved out an influential industry niche, tweeting out lengthy threads with a tendency to pull off one all-...
Demand ‘falls off cliff’ for CFA financial analyst qualification
A professional qualification known as the “hardest exam in finance” is falling out of fashion, with new applicants for the chartered financial analyst programme running well below pre-pandemic levels ...
The story of the CFA and Bitcoin in Africa
Nearly 150 million people use the franc of the Financial Community of Africa (CFA) on a daily basis, from Senegal in the extreme west to Gabon in the center of the continent. Used in 14 countries, the...