Verve, a payment card scheme operated by Nigerian fintech company Interswitch, is expanding its contactless payment products and introducing tokenisat
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For African writers, sharing your work to get paid on global platforms has always been a herculean task. African startups are building to solve this p
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Vodacom’s Tanzania arm has launched M-Pesa Global Payment, a suite of new international payment features on M-Pesa that allow its over 22 million user
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For years, African small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have turned to retail platforms like AliExpress to save travel costs and, more recently, Temu t
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MoMo Payment Service Bank (MoMo PSB), the fintech platform of Nigeria’s largest mobile network operator, MTN, has inked a strategic partnership with T
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M-KOPA Kenya, the Kenyan subsidiary of pay-as-you-go startup M-KOPA Holdings, has crossed $1.6 billion (KES 207 billion) in credit given to its custom
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Fusepay, a Seychelles-founded fintech building payment tools for frontier markets, has launched its digital payment platform to help businesses in the
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For the past year, Nomba, a Nigerian fintech last valued at over $150 million, has been establishing operations in the Democratic Republic of the Cong
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In early 2025, Joovlin, a Nigerian fintech built to help micro-suppliers accept and manage payments, shut down. Despite early traction, including more
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Zeeh Africa, a Nigerian open-finance startup that builds APIs to enable businesses to verify customers and access their bank data, has relaunched its
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Nigeria’s pharmacies and health centres operate in a notoriously fragile pharmaceutical supply chain. Essential medicines regularly go out of stock, a
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Since 2017, at least 10 million Muslims have travelled to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, yearly—except during the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021—to perform Umr
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In the fast-moving world of technology, a company’s name can be both an identity and a promise. But as markets evolve and products shift, many tech co
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Joseph Olowe can tell you the exact moment everything changed. His friend Jim, a software engineer, 42 years old, stepped on something sharp in his of
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Moni, a Y Combinator-backed Nigerian fintech offering community banking services, has rebranded as Rank and acquired AjoMoney, a group savings platfor
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Chowdeck, the Nigerian on-demand delivery platform, is no longer just delivering meals. With a new feature that lets users pay bills, it’s now deliver
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Roam, the Nairobi startup that designs and manufactures electric motorcycles and charging systems for commercial riders, is opening part of its pre-Se
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