Mobile payments firm Airtel Money is set to start trading on the London Stock Exchange later on Friday, a listing that may mark the largest initial public offering for the bourse in five years.

Big release for the IRS mobile app! You can now: 1. Check your refund status 2. Mobile payments 3. Access tax records 4. See notices from IRS 5. Update settings to receive less paper More features to come!

AEON partners with @Apertum_io to support apertum:native, connecting Apertum’s ecosystem with mobile payments and AI-agent settlement through infrastructure built for the #AIeconomy#. As AI agents increasingly access digital services and perform tasks on behalf of users, assets that can support both conventional payments and programmable settlement may play a greater role in enabling these interactions. $AEON

"London has deep capital available here." Airtel Money CEO Ian Ferrao tells Anna Edwards why the mobile payments firm chose London over other exchanges for its IPO 

AIRTEL MONEY FILES FOR LONDON IPO, TARGETING $8B-$9B VALUATION African mobile payments company Airtel Money has filed to list on the main market of the London Stock Exchange, aiming to raise at least $800M. The company is targeting a valuation of roughly $8B-$9B, per FT. Airtel Money has more than 53M monthly active users and generated $1.36B in revenue in its latest fiscal year. Parent company Airtel Africa currently owns about 78% and plans to remain a long-term strategic shareholder after the listing. Airtel Money expects a free float of at least 10%. The deal would rank among London’s largest IPOs in recent years, at a time when the UK market has seen just seven listings this year, raising £577M. Source: FT

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🌍 @HRF's Alex Gladstein (@gladstein) on why Bitcoin is freedom money: 📌 Most people on earth can't buy US stocks or use Venmo and PayPal 📌 Billions have no bank account and transact only in cash 📌 Even with advanced mobile payments, people under dictatorships can have accounts frozen "Bitcoin is an amazing option for them. It's a plan B."

ethereum:0x467bccd9d29f223bce8043b84e8c8b282827790f is one of those projects where the real story is adoption. Telcoin is working at the intersection of crypto, mobile payments, and remittances, aiming to make digital financial services more accessible through mobile technology. The idea is simple: - Less friction. - Faster transfers. - More accessible financial services. - The technology is interesting. - The real test is how many people actually use it. DYOR.

$AAPL is the best company in the world. They let others fight to see what actually works. Then they copy it and make it better. They are NEVER first. This is how they always win. - Personal computers (1977) - IBM to Apple II - Graphical computers (1984) - Xerox to Macintosh - MP3 players (2001) - Diamond Rio to iPod - Digital music stores (2003) - Napster to iTunes - Smartphones (2007) - Blackberry, Nokia to iPhone - App marketplaces (2008) - various mobile stores to App Store - Tablets (2010) - Microsoft Tablet to iPad - Video calling (2010) - Skype to FaceTime - Voice (2011) - GPS to Siri - Cloud storage (2011) - Dropbox to iCloud - Fingerprint (2013) - Motorola Atrix to TouchID - Smartwatches (2015) - Samsung Galaxy Gear to Apple Watch - Mobile payments (2014) - PayPal to Apple Pay - Wireless earbuds (2016) - bluetooth earbuds existed for years to AirPods - Smart speakers (2018) - Amazon Alexa to HomePod - Item trackers (2021) - Tile to AirTags - High-end ARM computers (2020) - ARM chips to Apple Silicon Macs - Buy-now-pay-later (2023) - Affirm to Apple Pay Later - Mixed reality VR (2024) - Oculus Meta to Apple Vision Pro - Generative Intelligence (2024) - OpenAI to Apple Intelligence