🇳🇬 CBN’s new PoS policy leaves agents with one big decision,
Nigeria's financial services regulator is executing a carefully calibrated reset of the banking system, moving simultaneously on two fronts: agent ban...
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🇳🇬 Nomba and Globus Bank build ₦21.3bn loan book with sub-1%
Nigeria's fintech-banking partnerships are reshaping the country's credit landscape in ways that should command attention from European investors watc...
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🇳🇬 Nigeria's Financial Sector Tightens Risk Controls
Nigeria's financial ecosystem is undergoing a critical recalibration. While macroeconomic indicators show resilience—most notably the naira's stabilit...
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🇳🇬 CBN warns banks against excessive risk-taking post
Nigeria's banking sector is experiencing a critical inflection point. Following the Central Bank of Nigeria's controversial recapitalization directive...
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🇳🇬 BREAKING: NAICOM rolls out Mandatory Policyholders’
Nigeria's financial regulatory framework is undergoing a significant recalibration. Within days of each other, two major supervisory bodies—the Nation...
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🇿🇦 SARS freezes assets in corruption crackdown
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has moved decisively to freeze assets belonging to two former officials implicated in fraud and misconduct, f...
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🇳🇬 We’ll sustain impressive growth, stakeholder value — Wema
Wema Bank, one of Nigeria's mid-tier financial institutions, has signaled confidence in sustaining robust growth momentum beyond 2025, positioning its...
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🇰🇪 Centum Investment Completes Buyback, Misses 10% Goal
Centum Investment Company, one of Kenya's most prominent diversified holding companies listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), has completed ...
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🇳🇬 EFCC appeals Omatsuli, firms’ acquittal over alleged N3.6bn
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has escalated its fight against alleged corruption within Nigeria's Niger Delta Development Commis...
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🌍 DR Congo moves to ban use of dollar
The Democratic Republic of Congo's central bank has announced plans to restrict or eliminate the use of the US dollar within its economy, framing the ...
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🇰🇪 Court clears way for Sh619 billion EABL shares sale
A Kenyan court has removed a significant legal obstacle to one of Africa's largest beverage transactions, greeing Diageo's sale of its controlling sta...
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🇳🇬 Afreximbank raises $800 million in 2025 despite Fitch
1 **HEADLINE:** Afreximbank's $800M Capital Raise Signals Resilience Amid Credit Rating Headwinds **ARTICLE:** The African Export-Import Bank (Afre...
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🇳🇬 Nigeria's Financial Sector Faces Governance and Integrity
Nigeria's financial landscape is navigating a complex intersection of institutional strengthening, regulatory enforcement, and international confidenc...
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🇳🇬 EFCC moves to overturn Omatsuli’s acquittal in N3.6 billion
Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has escalated its anti-corruption enforcement strategy by filing an appeal against the acqui...
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🇳🇬 Viral N5,000 note featuring Tinubu is fake — CBN
Nigeria's Central Bank has moved swiftly to extinguish speculation surrounding a fabricated N5,000 banknote purportedly bearing President Bola Tinubu'...
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🇳🇬 GTCO, Aradel top value chart as All-Share Index cracks
Nigeria's equity market has crossed a significant psychological threshold. On April 9, 2026, the All-Share Index (ASI) climbed into the 203,000 range,...
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🇰🇪 For Kenyan stablecoin issuers, reserves must be kept close
Kenya is positioning itself as Africa's most stringent regulator of stablecoin issuers, and the implications are profound for European investors seeki...
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🇰🇪 Can Africa’s informal economy become the continent’s next
Africa's informal economy represents one of the continent's most paradoxical opportunities: a $2.3 trillion shadow market generating genuine consumer ...
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🇿🇦 M-KOPA extends $22.5 million in South African credit since
M-KOPA, the Kenyan asset financing platform, has quietly become one of Africa's most consequential fintech players by solving a deceptively simple pro...
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🇳🇬 Zenith Bank delivers ₦1.04 trillion profit as 2025 earnings
Zenith Bank Plc, Nigeria's largest lender by market capitalization, has delivered a robust financial performance for 2025, reporting a profit after ta...
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