Happy Monday! Almost a year after the countrys central bank imposed a freeze on onboarding new merchants for online payment firms, they have been forced to scout for alternative revenue sources.
Like Indias Open Network for Digital Commerce, or ONDC, Gambias new network Open Gambia is underpinned by the Beckn Protocol – an open specification that creates a common language for interoperability among different digital platforms to facilitate peer-to-peer economic transactions – that is attracting increasing interest from around the world.