Based on due considerations for the health, safety and general well-being of thousands of young students and the other categories of stakeholders involved in the...
Nigeria’s leading digital financial services company, Carbon has released it’s 2019 financial statements audited by KPMG, detailing its product growth and $17.5mm in...
Madhvi Mavadiya In 2010, Kenyan payments, money transfer and micro-financing service M-Pesa became the most successful mobile phone based financial service in the...
MoneyGram has integrated with South Korean money transfer service, Global Money Express (GME). It marks MoneyGram’s third South Korean fintech partnership in the last...
Visa has built a digital tool that uses AI and proprietary data to help US financial institutions predict credit application fraud. The Advanced Identity Score combines...
Sixteen major Eurozone banks have come together to start the implementation of a new payment system to take on the might of Visa and Mastercard and...
MoneyFellows, an Egyptian startup for contributory savings and loans schemes has raised $4 million in a Series A investment. Led by Partech Africa and Sawari Ventures, a...
By Adewumi Ojo South African fintech, Centbee, has launched a new feature in its BitcoinSV wallet that allows users to purchase prepaid electricity, airtime and data...
South African startup Merge, an app and web-based platform that acts as a digital meeting place for entrepreneurs and investors, has raised funding from Nigerian VC firm...
Bitcoin’s latest move above $10,000 looks to have nullified a significant amount of selling pressure building in the market. The biggest cryptocurrency by market cap saw...
Samsung is integrating its blockchain wallet with the Winklevoss twins’ Gemini app for buying and selling cryptocurrencies. The Samsung Blockchain Wallet lets...
Mobile money platforms have been banned in Zimbabwe as the country’s local currency continues to lose value, with authorities desperately hoping to arrest the decline...
In view of increasing consumers appetite for payment solutions and emerging disruptive technology in the financial services space, the Payments System Management...
Brazil, the second largest market for WhatsApp, has suspended the instant messaging app’s mobile payments service in the country a week after its rollout in what is the...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has set in motion a plan and pathway for stakeholders’ involvement in the formulation of policy that would lead to 5G...
In line with its inter-agency collaboration, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federal Inland Revenue...
In an effort to consolidate the gains made in the telecommunications sector in line with the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy, President Muhammadu Buhari...
The government of Ghana has launched several initiatives to advance financial inclusion and the country’s transition to cashless payment. The initiatives include a...
Shanghai-based fintech veteran Rich Turrin says that despite the widespread association between distributed ledger technology and cryptocurrencies, China’s hotly awaited...
South African insurtech startup Inclusivity Solutions has raised US$1.3 million in the second tranche of its Series A funding round to help it expand within its existing...
ADEWUMI OJO The Bank of Ghana has established a new FinTech and Innovation Office to drive the Bank’s cash-lite, e-payments, and digitisation agenda. The emergence of...
