07/04/2022
The company will also leverage the Visa Fintech Fast Track program to introduce a series of partner initiatives specifically designed to simplify onramp and offramp operations for its users.
07/01/2022
Several sub-Saharan African central banks are exploring or piloting new digital currencies, as this chart shows.
06/30/2022
OVEX has positioned itself as SA’s first private bank for cryptos, opening some surprising use cases for hedge funds and asset managers.
06/30/2022
This was reiterated during the first-ever Viva Africa Tech awards which took place from 15 to 18 June 2022 in Paris
06/29/2022
The service will have a maximum transaction value of Sh1million, for both domestic and international transactions.
06/29/2022
Cybercrime has become a very lucrative business for cyber criminals
06/27/2022
Successful implementation could see 30 million people lifted out of extreme poverty while raising the incomes of 68 million more, according to the World Bank
06/27/2022
Following Nigeria’s October introduction of e-Naira, South Africa and Ghana are running pilots
06/23/2022
Fido broadens access to financial services through automating banking services such as customer onboarding, credit analysis and fraud detection.
06/23/2022
Warehouse fees went up at ports and the cost of importing materials rose.
06/22/2022
This brings the company’s total funding to $38 million thus far.
06/22/2022
Many of the central tenets of OB have their origins in the free-market economics and open-source software movement of the late twentieth century.
06/22/2022
The international bank found high technical feasibility among the projects, but significant work on legal and governance frameworks still remains to be done.
06/20/2022
Addison says that the new wallet will help to expand the use of electronic payments, building on the success of the GhIPSS Instant Pay service over the last decade.
06/20/2022
Another key theme for the industry over the last decade or so has been regulation.
06/14/2022
The Nigerian bourse would partner with a technology business and obtain regulatory clearance before launching in 2023
06/14/2022
Obiora said the Nigerian central bank put all its resources together and the CBDC was first established in a sandbox environment in 2017.
06/13/2022
Nigeria's eNaira digital currency, introduced last October, is a boon for inclusion, Kingsley Obiora, deputy governor of the country's central bank, said
06/13/2022
Hosted by the Global Innovation Initiative Group (GIIG), the event is a culmination of a six-month-long process of extensive and rigorous research
06/09/2022
It also includes the full list of startups tracked for the purposes of the report.