The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has launched a new US$225 million venture capital platform to invest in early stage companies…
Month: November 2022
The African fintech sector is gaining interest from global investors. Recently, Algerian super app Yassir announced that it had raised…
Ethiopia’s Hibret Bank has partnered with Mastercard to launch Hibir e-commerce, a digital payments platform for Ethiopian businesses to accept…
South Africa’s Vodacom Group is planning to launch its Alipay-enabled financial services app VodaPay in Egypt, according to a Bloomberg…
Mobile money company MFS Africa has partnered with crypto solutions provider Ripple to streamline real-time mobile payments for its customers…
Egyptian consumer credit platform Blnk has raised US$23.7 million in equity and debt funding, and US$8.3 million in securitised bond…
Yassir, a multi-sided marketplace offering on-demand services such as ride hailing, food and grocery delivery and banking, announced that it…
Nigerian fintech Touch and Pay has won the 2022 edition of the Ecobank Fintech Challenge and with it a US$50,000…