Chinese-backed fintech giant OPay has received approval from a Federal High Court in Lagos to freeze customer bank accounts in thirty listed banks as
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Lending is a tough nut to crack, and Nigeria’s biggest banks, valued at trillions of naira, know this too well. Only 6.2% of Nigeria’s adult populatio
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The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) plans to issue payment licences to fintech startups soon, an important softening of an earlier stance that will open u
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Read MoreProspa, the Y Combinator-backed business banking startup, is the subject of complaints and social media callouts after persistent delays in processing
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Safaricom, Kenya’s top mobile network, has picked Pezesha, a digital lender, to provide credit to small business owners, which will add to the telco’s
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Read MoreGoogle’s firm grip on the search engine market is a marketer’s dream — and nightmare. Commanding nearly 92% of the worldwide search market share, Goog
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In recent years, a handful of Latin American fintechs have made inroads into Africa to tap into its growing digital payments market. The latest entran
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Caantin, the Kenyan startup that was formerly called Kibanda and then TopUpMama, has led many lives. Backed by Ventures Platform and DFS Labs, Kibanda
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While many landing pages look different and use a variety of strategies to pull in audiences, they all serve one major purpose — to convert visi
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Chpter, a Kenyan AI-powered social commerce startup, has joined Safaricom’s Spark Accelerator, alongside eight others. Chpter is the first key s
Read MoreFlutterwave, one of Africa’s leading payment companies, has secured a Mozambique payment aggregator licence in principle. This high-profile lice
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Kenyan identity management startup, Peleza has merged with YC-backed Prembly to form the Prembly Group. Both companies declined to provide the specifi
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Following important changes to Know Your Customer processes by the Central Bank, fintech startups must now physically verify the addresses of POS agen
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Read MoreMonths after the board of the agricultural data platform Gro Intelligence replaced CEO and founder Sara Menker, the New York and Nairobi-based company
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