Globacom Limited, one of the two telcos granted Payment Service Banks (PSBs) by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has poached Safaricom, Kenya for top talents to drive...
Visa has announced its investment in Very Good Security (VGS), a platform which allows companies to collect, protect and exchange sensitive data. The card giant says it...
United Bank for Africa Liberia Limited in partnership with Orange has launched the Mobile Money Push and Pull Service for customers of both entities. The service, also...
Account-to-account (A2A) remittance fintech firm, TransferGo, has partnered with global payments platform Currencycloud to facilitate cross-border payments and launch in...
South African fintech startup Pago has launched its first product, payments platform Tuma, and has already passed the 2,500 transaction mark. Pago, which took part in...
Africa Startup Summit Kigali has selected Nigerian digital platform for cooperatives Riby and four other Nigerian startups to pitch at the second...
Record label executive and entrepreneur, Akon, has finalised an agreement with the Government of Senegal to create own city, Akon City. The city is being built on a...
Nigerian startup HouseAfrica has developed Africa’s first blockchain-based land and property registry, reducing the time it takes banks, lawyers and other stakeholders...
Cameroonian fintech startup Ishangoo has launched a web-based platform that helps users save small amounts towards their pre-set goals. Founded in April, Ishangoo is a...
Luno, South Africa’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, expects to see greater adoption of Bitcoin and altcoins in 2020, continuing the momentum gained in 2019. ...
Nigerian fintech startup Trove has secured an undisclosed amount of equity funding from asset management firm ARM to help it deliver access to global investment...
In a move to effectively regulate operations through database capturing for small businesses including fintechs startups in the country, the Small and Medium Enterprises...
The availability of loans without collateral will fall in the first quarter of the year, the Central Bank of Nigeria has said. The statistics department of the apex bank...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced the appointment of Dr Paul Oluikpe as the new Head, Financial Inclusion Secretariat. He succeeded Mr Joseph Attah, who...
The Central Bank will introduce a digital version of the Bahamian dollar, starting with a pilot phase in Exuma in December 2019, and extending in the first half of 2020...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has approved the Nigerian Payments System Risk and Information Security Management Framework to guide the management of risks...
ADEWUMI OJO With the focus to deepen financial transparency in the country through the Treasury Single Account (TSA), the federal government of Nigeria has launched a...
Technology start-ups in Lagos can now apply for the recently announced $687,000 seed capital by the Governor of the state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to develop tech-focused...
PHILIPS OLU OJO Lagos state government has commenced the implementation of Open Government Initiative, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, Governor of Lagos State has...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and EFIna are set to launch a new scheme to show improving financial inclusion rate for Nigerian Women. The scheme would be in the...
In a bid to aggressively and sustainably ramp up access to financial services and support the low income earners, underserved and un-served population, the National...
