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On the morning of June 19, thousands of Mukuru customers in South Africa woke up to missing funds from their…
When you call a customer care service line, you’re likely to hear from a representative that “this call is recorded for quality purposes.”…
Fincra, a payment infrastructure provider that serves remittance companies and businesses, has obtained a Third Party Payments Provider (TPPP) licence…
MTN South Africa has entered the competitive payments market with MoMo Pay, a low-cost digital payment platform designed for informal…
Onafriq, a pan-African digital payments network, has named Simon Black as chair of the board of its UK holding company…
Three South African fintech startups, Paymenow, TymeBank, and Omnisient, have been named in the Financial Times (FT) Africa’s Fastest-Growing Companies…
South African fintech startup SOLmate has doubled its active user base over the past year to about 100,000, driven by…
Stitch, a South Africa-based payments infrastructure startup founded in 2021, has raised $55 million in a Series B round, bringing…
Stitch, a South African fintech startup that provides online payments infrastructure for large enterprises, has acquired ExiPay, a startup that…
M-KOPA Holding, a Kenyan startup that offers financing for smartphones and solar systems, has appointed former Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri…
Chowdeck, a Nigerian YC-backed food delivery platform, could consider expanding to South Africa, Kenya, and Ivory Coast. “We are still…
It’s been 151 days since South Africa experienced load shedding, a deliberate rationing of electricity supply to prevent failure of…
TymeBank, the South African digital bank with R4 billion ($222 million) in customer deposits, will launch in Indonesia by the…
Hohm Energy, the South African solar company that announced a $8 million seed round in February, is currently not operational due to…