Egyptian consumer credit platform Blnk has raised US$23.7 million in equity and debt funding, and US$8.3 million in…

Yassir, a multi-sided marketplace offering on-demand services such as ride hailing, food and grocery delivery and banking, announced…

Nigerian fintech Touch and Pay has won the 2022 edition of the Ecobank Fintech Challenge and with it…

The Central Bank of Eswatini has partnered with German payments company Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) to research and explore the…

B2B marketplace Solv has launched in Kenya to enable micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to access credit,…

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…

Uganda digital lending platform Numida has raised a US$12.3 million pre-Series A funding round led by Serena Williams’…

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…

Identity verification platform iiDENTIFii has raised a US$15 million Series A funding round led by African investment company…

Africa’s fintech sector is booming, fueled by soaring venture capital (VC) funding activity, rising adoption of digital financial…

Ivory Coast-based payments company Julaya has raised a US$5 million extension round led by European venture capital fund…

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) announced that it has awarded licenses to 10 digital credit providers out…