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Ethiopia Advances Nationwide Rollout of Interoperable Digital Government Payments
Ethiopia has taken another step toward implementing interoperable government payments nationwide as public institutions, regulators and payment infrastructure providers convened to operationalize a unified implementation framework aligned with the country’s National Digital Payments Strategy.
The Ministry of Finance, the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) and national payment switch EthSwitch brought together technical teams from government institutions to advance implementation of a unified framework aimed at enabling interoperable person-to-government (P2G) and government-to-person (G2P) payments.
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