The African Development Bank has invested US$170 million in the newly-launched Investment in Digital and Creative Enterprises (iDICE)…
Nigeria
Nigerian payments company Flutterwave announced that it has received its Payment Services Provider and Payments Facilitator licenses in…
In Nigeria, agricultural technology (agritech) entrepreneurs are leveraging technology and digital platforms to help tackle the massive funding…
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has launched a new US$225 million venture capital platform to invest in early…
The African fintech sector is gaining interest from global investors. Recently, Algerian super app Yassir announced that it…
Nigerian fintech Touch and Pay has won the 2022 edition of the Ecobank Fintech Challenge and with it…
African banking group Ecobank Group has announced the six finalists for the fifth edition of the Ecobank Fintech…
Nigeria is home to the largest number of startups and startup funding rounds in the last decade in…
Nigerian telco Globacom, commonly known as Glo, has officially launched its new mobile payments and banking business MoneyMaster…
Five African fintech startups made this year’s Fintech 250, CB Insights’ annual list of the 250 most promising…
Nigerian financial services company ProvidusBank has partnered with Mastercard, African payments infrastructure provider Interswitch, and French technology company…
Chat commerce platform Clickatell has partnered with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to launch a USSD channel…
Brazilian payments company EBANX announced plans to expand its operations and payments solutions outside Latin America for the…
Flutterwave merchants can now process payments in eNaira, the Nigerian digital currency issued and distributed by the Central…
Payments company Flutterwave has been granted a Switching and Processing License by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).…
Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) governor Godwin Emefiele says the second phase of the eNaira project has begun…
British International Investment (BII), the UK government’s Development Finance Institution (DFI) formerly known as CDC Group, has unveiled…
PwC’s 2022 Global CBDC Index and Stablecoin Overview has ranked Nigeria at the top of the retail leaderboard,…
Moove, a Nigeria and London based mobility fintech, which provides revenue-based financing to mobility entrepreneurs across Africa, has…
Flutterwave announced that it has raised USD $250 million in Series D funding, valuing the company at over…