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Two African Startups Selected For 2nd Cohort of Fintech Hive Accelerator

Fintech Hive in partnership with Accenture has selected two African startups from Nigeria and Egypt to take part in its

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Nigeria Fintech Startup, Paystack Secures $8 Million Series A Funding Led By Stripe

Nigeria Fintech startup, Paystack has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Stripe. The new capital raised is

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Thank U Cash Raises Funds From  Microtraction 

Microtraction, an early stage fund provider, seems to be on the roll. In the past few weeks, it has funded CowryWise,

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Samsung Pay Unveiled in South Africa

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has announced that its mobile payment service, Samsung Pay, is now live in South Africa. With

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Nigerian Fintech Startup, Mines Raises $13m Series A Funding to Scale

Nigerian fintech startup Mines, has secured a US$13 million Series A funding round as it aims to expand into other

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RecyclePoints is the only Nigerian Startup that Made the Finals of the 2018 Zambezi Prize

The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation,  announced the finalists

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Fintech Startup, Flutterwave Secures USSD Approval From CBN

Flutterwave has received approval from Nigeria’s apex bank, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to own and operate an Unstructured Supplementary

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Ecobank Announces Finalists of the Ecobank Fintech Challenge 2018

Ecobank, the leading independent pan-African banking group, has announced the finalists for the 2nd edition of the annual Ecobank Fintech

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Paylater App Has reached 1 Million Downloads

In Nigeria, a country of nearly 200 million people, 61% of the adult population is un- or underbanked. Fintech companies

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Fintech Startups Can Now Apply to Pitch at Finnovation Africa in Ethiopia

Fintech start-ups in Africa can apply to pitch at the second annual Finnovation event in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia which will hold on