Managers of Wealth Africa

MFS Africa connects 120 million mobile wallets in Sub-Saharan Africa

Largest network on the continent allows merchants, banks and mobile operators to scale transactions cross-border, cross-currency and cross-network

Rural banks advised to embrace technology in banking

The industry currently employs about 4000 people, most of who are in rural communities.

Ecobank Ghana launches mobile banking app

New mobile banking application to help customers across the country

New Approach Towards Boosting Young Innovators In Africa

Launch of Boost Africa Initiative, a new integrated approach to boost young innovative entrepreneurs across Africa

Cactus Capital invests in African fintech startups

Cactus Advisors’ founder and CEO, Zach George said the company was excited to be investing in pioneering fintech companies that had graduated from leading accelerator programmes worldwide.

The future of banking in Africa lies with banks, not fintech

The mobile payments service M-Pesa, which allows users to make payments, send money and store cash without a bank account.

AfDB approves US $10-million equity investment in TIDE Africa Fund

The investment is strongly aligned to the Bank’s Ten Year Strategy 2013-2022 and its High 5 priorities.

Sterling Bank, Nigeria, completes Temenos IT transformation project

Sterling Bank simultaneously rolls out Temenos Core Banking Solution across 185 branches

South Africa and Blockchain: changing the face of Africa

But also regulators including the South African reserve Bank and others are increasingly looking at the blockchain.

Kenya's phone banking gets global praise

Efforts to build poor people’s resilience are already gaining ground.

How Mobile Banking Is Transforming Africa

When up to 90% of your population doesn’t have a bank account, how do you bring them into the financial system quickly and easily?

The rise and rise of blockchain

The distinction between blockchain and bitcoin is important: Bitcoin is just one of many crypto-currencies, which uses blockchain technology as its transaction conduit.

Cactus Capital invests in Flutterwave, E-Factor

Flutterwave provides end-to-end payments technology and infrastructure

Facilitating the duplicity of smart technologies and innovation in Africa

The government also permitted Mobile Network Operators to license agents.

Fintech Africa to reach landmark 1 billion mobile subscriptions by end of 2016

Growth in new mobile subscriptions is slowing.

Fidelity Bank joins NIBSS’ mCash platform

For Fidelity Bank, in keeping with its promise to make financial services easy and accessible to its teeming customers, it integrated mCash into its Instant Banking service *770#.

East African CIOs must lead in Digital Innovation at their Organisations, Sage says

CIOs in East Africa must work closely with their boards to invest in technology that will enable their organisations to thrive against the background of more demanding customers

Visa partners Ecobank on digital payments

The digital payment addresses the need for a convenient, low cost acceptance payments service throughout the continent

New tech hub launched in Johannesburg

Purple pages services offers a mobile cleaning services and has an online platform that offers personilised shopping.

Watching Tanzania leapfrog the digital divide

They also provide the ability to leapfrog and accelerate development in key sectors like health and education.

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