E-commerce giant Jumia appointed Anthony Mbagwu as the managing director of its Nigerian fintech arm, JumiaPay. Mbagwu joins JumiaPay from…
Hohm Energy, the South African solar company that announced a $8 million seed round in February, is currently not operational due to…
Mobius Motors, a Kenya-based automaker backed by Playfair Capital, has entered a voluntary liquidation after efforts to rescue the company…
Nigerian neobanks and banking agents need each other. The agents are the neobanks’ branches; they open accounts, accept deposits, process…
Margins are slim in the food delivery business. Whether it’s a cloud kitchen like Food Court, a restaurant aggregator platform…
In April, Nigeria’s central bank barred fintechs from onboarding new customers for six weeks. In that period, two of Nigeria’s…
Investor interest in African education technology (edtech) has cooled since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns highlighted how technology…
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) plans to issue payment licences to fintech startups soon, an important softening of an…
Safaricom, Kenya’s top mobile network, has picked Pezesha, a digital lender, to provide credit to small business owners, which will…
In recent years, a handful of Latin American fintechs have made inroads into Africa to tap into its growing digital…