South Africa’s informal trade sector is getting a digital upgrade with LovCash’s latest move to blockchain-powered transactions. The digital payments
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By March 2025, Mubarak Umar had spent a year and a half working as a supplier agent for Sun King, a solar company in Ibadan, western Nigeria, earning
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Releaf Earth, a Nigerian climate-agritech startup, has launched the country’s first operational industrial biochar production facility in Iwuru, Cross
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For most Nigerians, the moment a bank transfer goes awry—money deducted, but no value received—the ordeal begins: emails to customer service, hours on
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Kenya is proposing to scrap tax breaks on employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) for early-stage startups, a move that risks gutting one of the few in
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When you call a customer care service line, you’re likely to hear from a representative that “this call is recorded for quality purposes.” The promise
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In Lagos, the memory of October 20, 2020, still haunts Daniel Tambee, a Nigerian blockchain developer. That night, at the Lekki Tollgate, military per
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The Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) has cleared Nigerian fintech Moniepoint to acquire a 78% stake in Sumac Microfinance Bank, paving the way for
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Fincra, a payment infrastructure provider that serves remittance companies and businesses, has obtained a Third Party Payments Provider (TPPP) licence
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Startups on Our Radar is a bi-weekly column that spotlights new startups across Africa taking unconventional approaches, filling fundamental gaps, and
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Access Holdings’ fintech subsidiary, Hydrogen, has recorded the highest profit growth among Nigerian bank-owned payment companies in the first quarter
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Africa’s cross-border payments market is projected to surge to $1 trillion by 2035, up from $329 billion in 2025, according to a new report by Oui Cap
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In Day 1–1000, we follow founders through the raw, unfiltered journey of company-building: the early scrambles, the quiet breakthroughs, the painful p
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Watu Holdings, a Kenyan buy-now-pay-later startup, reported a sharp 85% drop in profit to $1.2 million (KES157 million) in 2024, according to disclosu
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MTN South Africa has entered the competitive payments market with MoMo Pay, a low-cost digital payment platform designed for informal merchants. Over
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