FinTech

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  Digital Lending, Long Reads

  One-click debt-trap: How product design fuels predatory lending in Nigerian fintech

  Muktar Oladunmade

  15th December 2025

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  FinTech

  Send by Flutterwave launches Naira travel card for diaspora holiday spending

  Opeyemi Kareem

  5th December 2025

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  FinTech

  Capitec VRP lets South Africans make recurring payments directly from bank

  Sakhile Dube

  4th December 2025

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  FinTech

  100 million cards later, Verve looks towards contactless payment and tokenisation

  John Adoyi

  1st December 2025

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  FinTech

  Vodacom now enables Tanzanians to pay merchants globally via M-Pesa

  Opeyemi Kareem

  27th November 2025

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  FinTech, News

  MTN’s MoMo PSB seals deal with Thunes to expand cross-border payments for Nigerians

  Frank Eleanya

  25th November 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Safaricom upgrades M-PESA backbone as API transactions hit 25%

  Kenn Abuya

  25th November 2025

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  FinTech, Mobile Money

  How to update your SASSA banking details and cellphone number

  Sakhile Dube

  25th November 2025

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  FinTech

  Nomba bets on cash-heavy DRC, starts with remittance to crack the market

  Muktar Oladunmade

  21st November 2025

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  FinTech

  As loan defaults rise, Zeeh relaunches Direct Debit for Nigeria’s digital lenders

  Emmanuel Nwosu

  20th November 2025

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  FinTech

  UmrahCash is building the “OPay for pilgrims” travelling to Saudi Arabia

  Emmanuel Nwosu

  18th November 2025

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  FinTech

  YC-backed Moni rebrands as Rank, backs its ambition with a bank acquisition

  Temitayo Jaiyeola

  11th November 2025

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  FinTech

  Mukuru users to get instant loans after JUMO partnership

  Sakhile Dube

  4th November 2025

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  FinTech

  MTN’s fintech has made ₦131.62 billion so far this year, thanks to airtime lending

  Temitayo Jaiyeola

  4th November 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Update: NCBA works to restore M-Shwari after outage locked customers out of savings

  Kenn Abuya

  3rd November 2025

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  FinTech

  Nigeria moves to create single powerful regulator for fintechs with proposed bill

  Muktar Oladunmade

  28th October 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Airtel Africa’s mobile money processes nearly $200bn as it readies public listing

  Frank Eleanya

  28th October 2025

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  FinTech, Startups

  This YC-backed startup wants to be the control centre for African business finance

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  24th October 2025

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  FinTech

  How much would you have made if you invested in Moniepoint?

  Temitayo Jaiyeola

  22nd October 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Togo’s Gozem expands into mobile money with new fintech platform

  Opeyemi Kareem

  14th October 2025

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  Mobile Money

  MTN MoMo processed $2.1 billion. Now it wants to connect Africa’s wallets

  Frank Eleanya

  13th October 2025

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  FinTech

  Raenest enters US market with new stablecoin and stock investing products

  Muktar Oladunmade

  11th October 2025

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  FinTech

  Moniepoint bets $7.39 million on London expansion in UK remittance push

  Temitayo Jaiyeola

  8th October 2025

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  FinTech

  Car washers in South Africa’s biggest cities can now receive instant digital payments

  Sakhile Dube

  2nd October 2025

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  FinTech

  Nigeria’s lenders have dodged credit bureau reporting for years; Lendsqr just made it free

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  1st October 2025

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  FinTech

  Why Fincra is teaming up with Reap to speed up Africa–Asia transactions

  Opeyemi Kareem

  22nd September 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Safaricom just completed M-PESA’s biggest upgrade in a decade, but will partners plug in?

  Kenn Abuya

  22nd September 2025

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  Mobile Money

  M-PESA is upgrading its platform on Sept. 22; here’s what customers can expect after

  Kenn Abuya

  19th September 2025

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  FinTech

  For immigrants, this fintech makes credit history as portable as a passport

  Abdulrasheed Abubakar

  15th September 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Safaricom is quietly adding utility services into M-PESA super app

  Kenn Abuya

  6th September 2025

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  Mobile Money

  M-PESA users can now send up to $3,850 to banks with PesaLink

  Kenn Abuya

  5th September 2025

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  Banking, Mobile Money

  What Standard Bank’s mobile money push means for South African customers

  Sakhile Dube

  5th September 2025

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  FinTech

  Tanzania’s NALA enters Kenya with Equity Bank, Pesalink partnership

  Adonijah Ndege

  4th September 2025

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  FinTech

  Kenya’s High Court exempts fintechs from VAT in landmark ruling

  Adonijah Ndege

  3rd September 2025

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  Features, FinTech

  On Johannesburg’s streets, traders remain fiercely cash-first

  Sakhile Dube

  2nd September 2025

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  FinTech

  Apps push retail investments to ₦516.5bn on Nigeria’s stock market

  Temitayo Jaiyeola

  28th August 2025

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  Consumer Tech, FinTech

  Fintech apps in Nigeria with competitive interest rates on savings

  Chukwuebuka Mgbojikwe

  22nd August 2025

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  Corrections, FinTech

  Correction: After turbulent year, Leatherback shifts to enterprise remittance under new leadership

  Muktar Oladunmade

  21st August 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Safaricom targets 8,000 transactions per second in M-PESA upgrade by 2026

  Adonijah Ndege

  21st August 2025

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  FinTech, News

  Moniepoint’s new POS terminal shows the unicorn is playing a long enterprise game  

  Ngozi Chukwu

  14th August 2025