Caantin, the Kenyan startup that was formerly called Kibanda and then TopUpMama, has led many lives. Backed by Ventures Platform…
Flutterwave, one of Africa’s leading payment companies, has secured a Mozambique payment aggregator licence in principle. This high-profile licence enables…
Kenyan identity management startup, Peleza has merged with YC-backed Prembly to form the Prembly Group. Both companies declined to provide…
Following important changes to Know Your Customer processes by the Central Bank, fintech startups must now physically verify the addresses…
Months after the board of the agricultural data platform Gro Intelligence replaced CEO and founder Sara Menker, the New York…
Spiro, an India-based electric vehicle company, has signed a $50 million debt financing deal with Afreximbank to expand its offering…
Tanzania’s Central Bank will no longer allow unlicensed digital lenders to operate in the country and has told customers to…
One month after obtaining a court order to recover $24 million lost to unauthorised POS transactions, Flutterwave suffered another security…
Chipper Cash, a pan-African fintech startup, has resumed operations in the US after a two-month pause, and after a restructuring…
BuuPass, a Kenyan travel booking platform backed by Founders Factory Africa and FrontEnd Ventures, has acquired its Nigeria and South…
Kuda Bank, Moniepoint, OPay and Palmpay have paused account opening for new customers following a directive from the Central Bank…
When The Peer, a Nigeria-based API startup, shut down in April, the business still had up to twenty months of…
Okra, an open finance startup, is one of the few Nigerian API services that provides real-time access to financial data.…
Mastercard, the second-largest payment network in the world, has partnered with Mono, a Nigerian YC-backed open banking startup, to enable…
Roam, a Kenyan-based electric mobility company, has secured a partnership with Mogo, an asset financier in East Africa, to boost…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has revoked the mobile money licence of Cellulant Nigeria, a subsidiary of one of…
Kuda Microfinance Bank, the Target Global-backed neobank, has secured payment licences in Tanzania and Canada as part of an expansion…
One week after suspending its services in America, Chipper Cash will eliminate roles based in the UK and US to…
Before consumer protection laws were passed, any lender could run a digital credit business. Kenya has approved the operation of…
Flutterwave, Africa’s most valuable startup, has appointed Dipo Fatokun, a former director at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), as…