🇳🇬 Kredete Partners with Visa Africa to Advance
The African diaspora represents one of the world's largest untapped financial markets. With over 40 million Africans living abroad and collectively re...
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🇳🇬 Keepaza wants to be the username layer of Nigerian finance.
Nigeria's fintech ecosystem has grown explosively over the past five years, with digital payment volumes reaching an estimated €18bn annually. Yet ben...
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🇳🇬 PalmPay Tackles Digital Payment Fraud Crisis in Nigeria
Nigeria's fintech ecosystem is confronting a critical vulnerability. According to data from the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBBS), Nigerian...
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🇳🇬 CBN forces PoS agents to pick one provider
Nigeria's Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has issued a directive requiring point-of-sale (PoS) agents to operate exclusively with a single payment servi...
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🇰🇪 Kenya’s Digital Payments Growth Hindered by Trust,
Kenya has long been celebrated as Africa's fintech leader, a position built on the back of M-Pesa's revolutionary mobile money platform and a thriving...
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🇳🇬 After 17 years, Paga’s CEO hands Nigeria operations to new
Paga, one of Nigeria's longest-established fintech companies, has reached a generational inflection point. After 17 years at the helm, founder and CEO...
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🇬🇭 MTN completes MoMo separation in Ghana
MTN Ghana has completed a significant structural reorganization, formally separating its mobile money operations (MoMo) into an independent business u...
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🇬🇭 MTN Ghana spins off mobile money into standalone entity
MTN Ghana's decision to separate its mobile money operations into a standalone entity marks a significant inflection point in how African telecom gian...
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🇰🇪 Kibera’s Bitcoin economy signals new path for financial
Kibera, home to approximately 250,000 residents across Nairobi's sprawling informal settlement, represents one of Africa's most challenging financial ...
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🇳🇬 Regulatory Passporting and the Future of Cross-Border
Africa's fragmented regulatory landscape has long been the invisible tax on fintech ambition. A payment solution licensed in Nigeria operates under co...
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🇬🇭 MTN completes Ghana mobile money spinoff in major fintech
MTN Group has formally completed the separation of its mobile money operations in Ghana, marking a watershed moment in how Africa's largest telecommun...
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🇰🇪 Kenswitch taps Visa as Kenya’s national payments switch
Kenya's payments ecosystem has entered a critical inflection point. The strategic partnership between Kenswitch—the country's nascent national payment...
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🇳🇬 CBN, banks, fintechs launch joint platform to fix payment
Nigeria's financial infrastructure just entered a critical transformation phase. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), working alongside the country's la...
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🇬🇭 Ghana turns national ID into payment tool
Ghana has quietly engineered one of Africa's most ambitious digital identity-to-commerce integrations, transforming its national Ghana Card into a fun...
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🇳🇬 The Fintech Act is a bad idea with good intention
Nigeria's fintech sector stands at a critical juncture. The nation has produced Africa's most valuable technology companies—Paystack, Flutterwave, Mon...
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🇬🇭 Ghana’s National ID cards can now make payments
Ghana has quietly engineered one of Africa's most ambitious financial inclusion initiatives. The Ghana Card—a mandatory national identification docume...
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🇳🇬 CBN begins virtual asset anti-money laundering supervision
Nigeria's Central Bank (CBN) has initiated a formal Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CFT) supervision pilot targeting virtua...
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🇳🇬 Wysemarket lets African users forecast real-world outcomes
Prediction markets have long been the domain of institutional traders and Western financial platforms, but a new wave of fintech innovation is democra...
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🇳🇬 Best Platform to Sell Gift Cards in Nigeria & Ghana
The gift card economy in West Africa is experiencing a quiet but significant transformation. What began as a niche digital gifting mechanism has evolv...
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🇳🇬 FG launches cross-border digital payments report to unlock
Nigeria's Federal Government has released a strategic report addressing cross-border digital payments and identity verification within the African Con...
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