NALA Money, the Tanzanian business and consumer cross-border payments fintech backed by Bessemer Ventures and Accel, says it plans to make Rwanda a se
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Finance management startup Kippa has discontinued its agency banking business and will also lay off the 40 employees who support the product. Kippa ma
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Read MorePiggyvest has paid out over ₦1.1 trillion ($1.42 billion) to its customers since its inception in 2016. Its co-founder and CMO, Josh Chibueze, t
Read MoreAsaak joins Nigeria’s Paga as one of the few African tech companies to expand to Latin America. Founded in 2016, Asaak offered motorcycle and sm
Read MoreAsaak joins Nigeria’s Paga as one of the few African tech companies to expand to Latin America. Founded in 2016, Asaak offered motorcycle and sm
Read MoreEgyptian payments provider Fawry plans to launch a digital bank this year. This comes weeks after the company announced its plan to obtain a digital b
Read MoreOn the back of successfully serving African migrants in Canada and the UK, LemFi has raised $33 million in Series A funding to simplify remittance pay
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Read MoreTighter funding cycles for startups are forcing them to be prudent, thus creating opportunities for solutions that promote internal fiscal discipline
Read MoreIn 2017 there were 32 financial technology companies in Egypt—including but not limited to payments providers. By 2022, the number of technology
Read MoreMonths after the Central Bank launched a fintech sandbox, there’s no word on when the first cohort of applicants will begin testing. CBN and its
Read MoreCellulant’s new Nigeria country manager has one job, to grow Cellulant’s share of Nigeria’s large payments market with a combination
Read MoreSouth Africa leads the way in the digitisation of B2B payments on the continent, according to a latest study. According to a report by business paymen
Read MoreA conversation with Tendai Mugovi, co-founder of Zimbabwean fintech startup Cashliq which offers banking as-a-service products. He speaks on the origi
Read MoreSmall and medium businesses in Africa sell to and depend on imports from suppliers in other countries to meet their local production, sales or reexpor
Read MoreTuma, a Congolese fintech startup, has raised the largest investment round in fintech for the Congolese tech ecosystem ever. Tuma, a fintech startup i
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