Fincra, a payment infrastructure provider that serves remittance companies and businesses, has obtained a Third Party Payments Provider (TPPP) licence…
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Access Holdings’ fintech subsidiary, Hydrogen, has recorded the highest profit growth among Nigerian bank-owned payment companies in the first quarter…
Africa’s cross-border payments market is projected to surge to $1 trillion by 2035, up from $329 billion in 2025, according…
Watu Holdings, a Kenyan buy-now-pay-later startup, reported a sharp 85% drop in profit to $1.2 million (KES157 million) in 2024,…
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MTN South Africa has entered the competitive payments market with MoMo Pay, a low-cost digital payment platform designed for informal…
Three South African fintech startups, Paymenow, TymeBank, and Omnisient, have been named in the Financial Times (FT) Africa’s Fastest-Growing Companies…
Nigerian fintechs have had a mixed relationship with cards. In the past, some offered foreign-issued cards like Visa and Mastercard…
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South African fintech startup SOLmate has doubled its active user base over the past year to about 100,000, driven by…
Oxygen X Finance Company Limited, the digital lending subsidiary of Access Holdings Plc, disbursed ₦152 million ($95,000) in consumer loans…
Nigerian lending software startup, Lendsqr, is building an artificial intelligence model that analyses borrowers’ voices and faces to determine if…
The value of mobile money transactions in Kenya dropped sharply over the 12 months to February 2025, falling by 19.6%…
Digital lender Tala has laid off 28 employees from its customer operations team, citing a reduced workload due to fewer…
Moniepoint, the Nigerian fintech unicorn, has launched Monieworld, its remittance product that allows UK residents to send money directly from…
Stitch, a South Africa-based payments infrastructure startup founded in 2021, has raised $55 million in a Series B round, bringing…
Stitch, a South Africa-based payments infrastructure startup founded in 2021, has raised $55 million in a Series B round, bringing…
Umba, a Nairobi-headquartered digital bank with operations in Kenya and Nigeria, has raised a $5 million debt facility to grow…
PalmPay, the Nigerian fintech with over 35 million users, has launched its first debit card in partnership with Verve, marking…