Nigerian fintech Touch and Pay has won the 2022 edition of the Ecobank Fintech Challenge and with it…
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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…
In 2021, the momentum in Nigeria’s fintech ecosystem continued, driven by a blooming local startup scene, significant growth…
Canada-based digital transaction platform BlocPal International and its majority-owned Nigerian subsidiary PayPassage have partnered to launch a financial…
B2B ecommerce and embedded finance platform TradeDepot has raised US$110 million in a Series B equity and debt…
Specialist development agency Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Africa is set to be launching its insurtech accelerator program in…
African fintech hubs have grown rapidly in the past few years, leading to pockets of fintech development across…