MarketForce
Ecommerce Funding Investment Venture Capital

MarketForce Raises $40M Series A to Scale up The Super App for Africa’s Informal Merchants

MarketForce, the Nairobi-headquartered B2B platform for retail distribution of consumer goods and digital financial services in Africa, has closed a

Carry1st
Payment

Carry1st Partners With Chipper Cash and PayPal to Bring Payments to Africa

Carry1st, an African mobile games publisher, has announced that it has partnered with PayPal and Chipper Cash to enable people

Ecobank
Banking Fintech

Ecobank Group Launches 2021 Edition of its Fintech Challenge

The pan-African banking group, Ecobank group, is inviting African Fintech entrepreneurs to join the 4th edition of the Ecobank Fintech

Fintech Funding Investment Venture Capital

ImaliPay Secures Pre-seed Funding to Service Gig Economy

ImaliPay, an African fintech startup, has raised an undisclosed pre-seed funding from the Australian venture capital firm TEN13. Other investors

API
Fintech Payment

What Makes a Great Payments Application Program Interfaces (API)?

As cities around the world shut down, retail businesses closed doors and people stayed indoors, digital payments became a lifeline.

CBN
Banking Event Events Fintech

CBN Urges Banks to Share customers’ Data With Fintechs

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has asked commercial banks to share their customers’ data with financial technology (Fintech) companies

Facebook Accelerator
Accelerator Africa Entrepreneurship

Facebook Accelerator Nigeria Startups Have Raised Over $500k In investments

Startups participating in the second cohort of the Facebook Accelerator Program have raised over $500,000 in investments and grants in

Fintech
Business Economy Fintech

Nigerian Fintechs: Quick And Effective But Can They Be Trusted?

Ugochukwu Festus, a businessman at the popular computer village in Lagos was in dire need of cash to clear his

PayU
Africa Business Digital Fintech Payment

PayU Readies to Compete With mPesa as it Launches in Kenya

PayU, a fintech company that provides payment technology to online merchants, has launched its payment service in Kenya and come

FinTech
Africa Entrepreneurship Event Fintech Payment

How FinTech is Accelerating Positive Transformation of Banking in Africa

The FinTech space in Africa is observing rapid advancement as innovative new financial services players disrupt the traditional modalities of