Funding Investment Venture Capital

Lipa Payments Secures $650k Funding For Contactless Payments Platform For Informal Sector

Lipa Payments, a South African fintech startup, has secured a R10 million ($650, 000) funding to build a contactless payments

Opay
Awards Payment

OPay Wins Best New POS Paymaent Service Provider in Egypt For 2021

OPay, the unicorn African payment firm, has won the ‘Best New Point-Of-Sale Payment Service Provider award from The Global Economics’

Fawry
Payment

Fawry Plans to Directly Offer Consumer Finance Services in 2022

Fawry, the Egyptian e-payments solutions, and banking services provider, has announced plans to establish a consumer finance company, Fawry Consumer Finance,

Visa
Cryptocurrency

Visa Launches Crypto Advisory Services to Help Partners Advance Their Crypto Journey

Visa, the global leader in digital payments, has announced the launch of Visa’s Global Crypto Advisory Practice, an offering within Visa

MarketForce
Payment

MarketForce, Cellulant Partner For Digital Financial Services Expansion into 5 New Markets in Africa

MarketForce, the B2B retail, and financial services distribution platform, has partnered with Cellulant, to extend the availability of RejaReja retailer ‘super

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

MFS Africa
Fintech Funding Payment Startup Venture Capital

Pan-African Cross-border Payments Startup, MFS Africa Secures $100m Series C Funding

MFS Africa, the pan-African cross-border payments startup, has raised US$100 million Series C funding through an equity and debt financing

Brass
Funding

Nigerian Fintech Startup, Brass Secures $1.7m to Provide Premium Banking Services to SMEs

Brass, a Nigerian fintech startup, has secured a $1.7 million investment to address the banking needs of local entrepreneurs, traders,

Fintech Partnership Payment

Ukheshe Technologies and dzcard Announce Partnership to Expand Digital Payment Solutions in Asia Pacific

Ukheshe Technologies, the leading fintech enablement partner, has announced a new partnership with global next-generation card solutions and digital security company, dzcard.  The

Payment
Payment

Cash is King – But Digital Payments Are Coming For The Throne

Even with a high banked population and a multitude of electronic payment options available, the average South African still use