Nala, a fintech startup based in Tanzania has emerged the winner of the Ecobank Fintech Challenge thus carting away US$10,000
Fintech Hive in partnership with Accenture has selected two African startups from Nigeria and Egypt to take part in its
Nigeria Fintech startup, Paystack has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Stripe. The new capital raised is
Microtraction, an early stage fund provider, seems to be on the roll. In the past few weeks, it has funded CowryWise,
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has announced that its mobile payment service, Samsung Pay, is now live in South Africa. With
Nigerian fintech startup Mines, has secured a US$13 million Series A funding round as it aims to expand into other
The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation, announced the finalists
Flutterwave has received approval from Nigeria’s apex bank, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to own and operate an Unstructured Supplementary
Ecobank, the leading independent pan-African banking group, has announced the finalists for the 2nd edition of the annual Ecobank Fintech
In Nigeria, a country of nearly 200 million people, 61% of the adult population is un- or underbanked. Fintech companies