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 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
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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
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Okra, an open-banking startup in Nigeria, has launched Nebula, a cloud infrastructure product. It joins a growing list of homegrown cloud providers li
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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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
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Hohm Energy, the South African solar company that announced a $8 million seed round in February, is currently not operational due to cash flow problem
Read MoreStatista, a world-renowned market data provider, and CNBC, an American media company, listed seven African fintech companies—Flutterwave, Piggyvest, K
Read MoreFor the rollout of Ayra Starr’s album ‘The Year I Turned 21,’ her record label Mavin made an unusual marketing choice: adverts on the food delivery a
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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
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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
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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Caantin, the Kenyan startup that was formerly called Kibanda and then TopUpMama, has led many lives. Backed by Ventures Platform and DFS Labs, Kibanda
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