01/27/2022
Ghana’s process for adding banking to its biometric card is a flawed one
The Ghana Revenue Authority will also replace tax identification numbers to match the Ghana Card pin number starting March 31.
01/26/2022
Why Cyril is going after Telkom
Telkom is suing Icasa because it’s unhappy with the way the communications regulator has managed the process of licensing spectrum
01/24/2022
The pandemic and the ensuing lockdown across the continent coaxed Standard Bank’s customers into switching to digital banking.
01/24/2022
The migration to online financial services has already accelerated at a dramatic rate, creating a boom for fintechs.
01/21/2022
Making sure that SMEs have all the support they need to go digital and grow digital is a key focus for Mastercard and Network International.
01/20/2022
Banque du Trésor has also selected CapitalCompliance™ from Capital Banking Solutions, to strengthen its compliance requirements, prevent money laundering and tax evasion, and comply with FATCA reporting.
01/20/2022
CapitalCompliance will allow BDT to reduce regulatory and reputational risk and thus avoiding negative impact on their business.
01/20/2022
The duo have invested in more than 50 startups as well as in Acuity Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund
01/20/2022
Hyperledger builds enterprise blockchain ecosystems through global, open source collaboration.
01/20/2022
Under the partnership, YAP and FSS would work to deliver greater value to customers by combining the FSS Unified Card Issuance Platform
01/20/2022
Oracle is racing to open at least 44 cloud regions this year as it plans to catch up with cloud computing rivals such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google.
01/19/2022
Finclusion Group, a fintech that uses AI algorithms to provide financial services to African customers via an array of credit-centric products, has raised $20 million in debt and equity pre-Series A financing.
01/18/2022
More than 70% of retailers who were onboarded were eligible for credit after the initial 30-day period, and over 80% of those who used credit once went on to become repeat borrowers.
01/18/2022
As the payments phenomenon became truly global during the pandemic, Africa has emerged as a new FinTech hub.
01/18/2022
The fintech intends to grow existing operations in South Africa, Eswatini, Kenya, Namibia and Tanzania and expand into Mozambique and Uganda.
01/17/2022
Fintech Farm partners banks to enter new markets instead of getting its banking license.
01/17/2022
The programme targets more than 68 million Nigerians aged 15 to 35 years who are recognised as leaders of innovative, early-stage, technology-enabled start-ups or as leaders of creative sector micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
01/17/2022
As 2021 has come and gone, many businesses are still responding to changes in the business environment brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
01/17/2022
US tech investors are waking up to the potential of Francophone Africa, while agritech, healthtech, cleantech and proptech are the continent's rising sector stars.
01/17/2022
Regulation will also boost the number of formal partnerships between banks and crypto companies which will facilitate greater crypto adoption.