On December 20, 2023, Peace Itimi, the host of Founders Connect, a YouTube show that interviews up-and-coming entrepreneurs…
Nigeria
IFC announced an investment in a new fund by Apis Partners LLP, a private equity firm, to help…
OceanBase, an enterprise-level distributed relational database provider, announced that its database solution has been deployed and put into…
In Nigeria, the fintech industry has expanded well beyond payment services to now encompass a wide range of…
LemFi (former Lemonade Finance), a Canada based fintech platform transforming financial services for immigrants, has raised a $33…
The House of Representatives, one of the two Chambers that make up the Bicameral Legislature of Nigeria, has…
Singapore, Nigeria and Hong Kong are the three locations in the world where people are searching for the…
Google Cloud announced a new collaboration with Moniepoint, an Africa-focused business banking platform that provides financial services to…
The African Development Bank has signed a $525,000 grant agreement with Africa Fintech Network AFN (not associated to…
The African Development Bank has invested US$170 million in the newly-launched Investment in Digital and Creative Enterprises (iDICE)…
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…