On 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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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
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
Read MoreWhile the takeover of business banking startup Brass by a group of investors was widely hailed as a win by the tech ecosystem, it also entailed a rest
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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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Digital lending is notorious for teaching expensive lessons. While every lender will talk up their proprietary algorithms and foolproof loan decision
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Tanzania’s Central Bank will no longer allow unlicensed digital lenders to operate in the country and has told customers to look out for valid l
Read MoreOne month after obtaining a court order to recover $24 million lost to unauthorised POS transactions, Flutterwave suffered another security breach tha
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Chipper Cash, a pan-African fintech startup, has resumed operations in the US after a two-month pause, and after a restructuring exercise that saw the
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