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NALA , a Tanzanian cross-border payments company that recently pivoted from local to international money transfers, said Thursday it has raised $10 million in a new fundraising round. to East African countries (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), thus ushering the Tanzanian fintech into the remittance business. and the E.U., and the U.S.
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