Small Business

Digital bank Umba raises $5 million to grow vehicle and SME lending in Kenya

Umba, a Nairobi-headquartered digital bank with operations in Kenya and Nigeria, has raised a $5 million debt facility to grow…

3 months ago

PalmPay rolls out Verve debit cards as Nigerian fintechs shift to local providers

PalmPay, the Nigerian fintech with over 35 million users, has launched its first debit card in partnership with Verve, marking…

3 months ago

Paystack welcomes consumers to its ecosystem with Zap, a transfer app

Nine years ago, Shola Akinlade, Paystack’s CEO, bet on making online payments frictionless and that bet paid off with a…

3 months ago

Nigeria records largest global drop in cash usage as digital payments surge

Nigeria recorded the steepest decline in cash transactions to surpass six cash-reliant economies in the past decade thanks to the…

3 months ago

“Transfers will be the future”: GTCO’s HabariPay expands fintech push with new licences

When fintechs like Paystack and Flutterwave gained prominence between 2016 and 2019 to disrupt Nigeria’s financial sector, traditional banks had…

3 months ago

Turaco’s bet on M-KOPA’s smartphones expands insurance reach to over 1 million customers

Turaco, a Kenyan insurtech company, has spent six years disrupting the underpenetrated insurance market with less than $2 premiums. However,…

3 months ago

Nigerian lender Sycamore expands into asset management with SEC licence

Sycamore, the Nigerian digital lender with ₦10 billion assets under management, has secured a fund manager licence from the Securities…

3 months ago

Kenyan digital lender Whitepath fined $2,000 for unlawful data use in second privacy violation

Kenya’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC)  has fined digital lender Whitepath KES 250,000 ($2,000) for violating data privacy…

4 months ago

Carbon resumes issuance of debit cards in partnership with Verve

Carbon, the Nigerian digital bank known for its loans-led approach to banking, has partnered with Verve, the Interswitch-owned card scheme…

4 months ago

Nigeria has been courting Flutterwave to list on the NGX since 2023. Can it afford the fintech?

Nigeria has been lobbying Flutterwave, its most valuable startup, to list on the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) since 2023. The government…

4 months ago