banking

Moniepoint taps Stanbic IBTC CFO for its microfinance bank after $110 million raise

Moniepoint, the Nigerian fintech that recently raised $110 million at a billion-dollar valuation, has appointed Bayo Olujobi as the Chief…

2 weeks ago

Banks and fintechs remain wary of Crypto despite new licences

On Friday, Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued the country’s first crypto licences to Busha and Quidax, two home-grown…

3 months ago

Raenest, Leatherback, Vesti, and Graph pitch themselves to African founders as Mercury alternatives

African fintechs that help companies access banking services in the U.S. and Canada are wooing founders affected by Mercury’s abrupt…

3 months ago

Zone, NIBSS partner to use blockchain to record POS payments

Zone, a Nigerian blockchain-enabled payments infrastructure, has partnered with the Nigerian Inter-Bank Settlement Scheme (NIBSS) to introduce blockchain technology to…

3 months ago

Kuda, the Target Global-backed challenger bank, tripled revenue to $22 million in 2022

Kuda, the Nigeria-focused neobank backed by Target Global, tripled its revenue, according to its latest audited financial statements filed with…

3 months ago

Kenya to issue payment licences: Flutterwave, Chipper Cash could be first in line

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) plans to issue payment licences to fintech startups soon, an important softening of an…

5 months ago

Exclusive: Brass opts for a smaller team under new management

While the takeover of business banking startup Brass by a group of investors was widely hailed as a win by…

5 months ago

With ₦1.1 Trillion in transactions, Firstmonie is the biggest bank-led agency banking service

Firstmonie, the agency banking arm of First Bank of Nigeria, is the biggest bank-led agency player in the country’s agency…

9 months ago