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…
Interswitch, the Visa-backed Nigerian payments giant that reported $42 million in revenue for its financial year ended March 31, will…
Bilha Ndirangu, a former director of the IFC-backed Africa’s Talking, is suing the company she cofounded for unlawful termination of…
Interswitch, the Visa-backed Nigerian payments giant, has merged with M-Kudi, a mobile money provider, as it seeks a payment service…
Flutterwave’s chief operating officer, Bode Abifarin, has left Africa’s largest startup after six years of leading the startup’s operations, in…
For Lanre*, a Lagos-based businessman, the past month has been a nightmare. Unable to access customer data, which he has…
Firstmonie, the agency banking arm of First Bank of Nigeria, is the biggest bank-led agency player in the country’s agency…
A Kenyan high court has unfrozen $3 million belonging to fintech giant Flutterwave and two of its associates, ending a…
Ibrahim Ibitade, the CEO of Leatherback, a cross-border payments startup that operates in seven countries, is ready to move from…
Ibrahim Ibitade, the CEO of Leatherback, a cross-border payments startup that operates in seven countries, is suing Nigeria’s Economic and…