Mastercard has announced a strategic partnership with enza, a fast-growing payment solutions company, to expand access to embedded payment capabilities for fintech companies across Africa. The...
Effective June 18, 2025, mobile subscribers in Nigeria will begin paying for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) banking services directly from their airtime following a regulatory-backed...
Meta has officially rolled out new monetization tools for WhatsApp, introducing three key features—Channel Subscriptions, Promoted Channels and Ads in Status—within the platform’s Updates tab. The...
A former executive of Nigerian fintech unicorn Moniepoint has filed a lawsuit at the National Industrial Court, seeking legal redress over what he describes as the...
Salus Cloud, the AI-native platform revolutionising Developer & Security Operations (DevSecOps) for engineers, has closed a $3.7 million Seed round to advance its mission of accelerating...
Airtel Africa Plc has reported revenue of $4.19 billion for the financial year ended March 31, 2025, representing a 3.3% decline in reported currency but a...
Meta Platforms Inc. is in advanced negotiations to invest more than $10 billion in Scale AI, a U.S.-based artificial intelligence data infrastructure startup, in what could...
Moniepoint Inc. has secured regulatory approval from the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) to acquire a 78 percent stake in Sumac Microfinance Bank, a major step...
PalmPay has launched a new financial empowerment initiative targeting 5,000 women-led microbusinesses in Northern Nigeria as part of its broader strategy to deepen financial inclusion and...
Traveling abroad from Africa has traditionally come with unique connectivity challenges—finding local SIM cards, navigating costly roaming charges, or carrying multiple physical SIMs. Thankfully, technology has...
