African Fintech

The Democratic Republic of Congo has become the testing ground for a new payment system that settles mobile money top-ups ...

African payments company Cauridor has partnered with digital asset infrastructure provider Fireblocks to strengthen the technology powering stablecoin payments across ...

Cross-border payments remain one of the biggest challenges for African businesses, with high fees and settlement delays slowing trade across ...

Between July 2024 and June 2025, Sub-Saharan Africa received more than $205 billion in on-chain value, a 52 per cent ...

Nigeria and Ethiopia are at the centre of Africa’s fast-growing crypto economy, driving a surge that has pushed on-chain transaction ...

The Johannesburg fintech quietly powering merchant services for Africa’s tier-one banks just closed a $9.5m Series A Johannesburg-based littlefish has ...

Pesalink and the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) have partnered to enable cross-border transfers in local currency for Kenyan ...

Kenya-based fintech startup Taran App has secured a grant from Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer-2 network, to improve how Africans move ...

Ezeebit, a South African crypto payments startup, has secured $2.05 million in seed funding to modernise how African retailers receive ...

Joel Mirimo, a businessman in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has introduced MbiyoPay, an app that integrates bank cards, ...