Airtel Africa Plc has announced an agreement with minority shareholders, The Rise Fund and Mastercard, to defer the exercisable date of their put options in Airtel...
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc has expanded its subscriber base by 6.7 percent year-on-year to 84.7 million as at June 30, 2025, according to its latest unaudited...
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc has posted a profit after tax (PAT) of ₦414.9 billion for the half year (H1) ended June 30, 2025, a sharp turnaround...
Nigeria’s electronic payments surged by 24.4 percent year-on-year to ₦295.5 trillion in the first quarter (Q1) of 2025 as the country shifts toward a cashless economy....
PayPal Holdings Inc. has launched a new payment option that enables small U.S. merchants to accept more than 100 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a range...
PalmPay has once again secured its place among the world’s leading financial technology companies as it was named one of the top 300 global fintech firms...
Mobile money now accounts for nearly 60 percent of all formal borrowing in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Bank’s Global Findex Database 2025. The report...
TikTok, the short-form video platform owned by ByteDance, deleted over 3.6 million videos uploaded by Nigerian users in the first quarter of 2025 for breaching its...
Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired a minority stake in EssilorLuxottica SA, the world’s largest eyewear manufacturer, to reinforce the company’s commitment to expanding its presence in...
When Nigerian fintech startup Okra Inc. announced it would shut down its pioneering open banking API operations in May 2025, it sent a clear signal to...
