Visa, the world’s second-largest card payment processor, has made strategic investments in four African startups as part of its plan to invest $1 bill
Read MoreMoniepoint, the Nigerian fintech that recently raised $110 million at a billion-dollar valuation, has appointed Bayo Olujobi as the Chief Financial Of
Read MoreMTN Nigeria, the country’s biggest telco, has applied for Payment Service Solutions Provider (PSSP) and Payment Terminal Service Provider (PTSP) licen
Read MoreBamboo, the Y Combinator-backed investment app that allows Africans to buy and trade local and international stocks, is expanding to Canada after secu
Read MoreKuda Bank, Moniepoint, OPay, and Palmpay have responded to the central bank’s April ban by expanding their compliance and fraud monitoring teams, poac
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M-KOPA Holding, a Kenyan startup that offers financing for smartphones and solar systems, has appointed former Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri as its new board
Read MoreLendsqr, a startup that provides all the software companies need to start a lending business, will now offer its clients a line of credit to help them
Read MoreFavourable demographics, economic growth in the past decade, and innovation in payments infrastructure are working to define the future of payments in
Read MoreKenyan lawmakers have revived the 2022 Information and Communications (Amendment) Bill, which seeks to split Safaricom, the country’s biggest telco fr
Read MoreOn Friday, Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued the country’s first crypto licences to Busha and Quidax, two home-grown crypto ex
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African fintechs that help companies access banking services in the U.S. and Canada are wooing founders affected by Mercury’s abrupt compliance change
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TymeBank, the South African digital bank with R4 billion ($222 million) in customer deposits, will launch in Indonesia by the end of 2024. It is the b
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Zone, a Nigerian blockchain-enabled payments infrastructure, has partnered with the Nigerian Inter-Bank Settlement Scheme (NIBSS) to introduce blockch
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PrivPay, a Kenyan fintech that allowed customers to make M-PESA transactions without revealing their personal details, shut down in May 2023 after Saf
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Kuda, the Nigeria-focused neobank backed by Target Global, tripled its revenue, according to its latest audited financial statements filed with U.K. r
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E-commerce giant Jumia appointed Anthony Mbagwu as the managing director of its Nigerian fintech arm, JumiaPay. Mbagwu joins JumiaPay from rival finte
Read MoreStatista, a world-renowned market data provider, and CNBC, an American media company, listed seven African fintech companies—Flutterwave, Piggyvest, K
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In April, Nigeria’s central bank barred fintechs from onboarding new customers for six weeks. In that period, two of Nigeria’s biggest fintechs—Opay a
Read MoreChinese-backed fintech giant OPay has received approval from a Federal High Court in Lagos to freeze customer bank accounts in thirty listed banks as
Read MoreExclusive: Techstars-backed BlackCopper set out to disrupt lending, now it owes investors ₦1 billion
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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