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How Nigeria’s Esca Finance is Building FX Infrastructure to Protect Businesses from Currency InstabilityÂ
Esca Finance, a foreign exchange infrastructure startup founded by Nigerian entrepreneur Shalom Osiadi, is seeking to solve one of Africa’s currency instability. Esca is building...
MoneyHash and Visa Expand Cybersource to Simplify Cross-Border Payment Infrastructure
MoneyHash, a payment infrastructure platform focused on emerging markets, has entered into a multi-year partnership with Visa to enable Cybersource across its platform, in...
Tulupay Launches Financial Operating System to Link Banks, Mobile Money and Blockchain in Africa
Tulupay, a fintech infrastructure company with operations spanning Estonia, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and other markets, has announced the pre-launch of its Financial Operating...
Mashreq and Toothpick Brings Banking-as-a-Service to Healthcare, Simplify Treatment with Digital Financing
Mashreq, a financial institution in the Middle East and North Africa, has partnered with healthcare platform Toothpick to launch an embedded financing solution that...
Kenya’s Zuri Health Expands Mobile Clinic to Deliver Affordable Care to Underserved CommunitiesÂ
Kenya-based healthtech startup, Zuri Health, is expanding its fleet of mobile clinics in Nairobi after its first bus reached operational breakeven, providing a proof...
KCB Bank Partners Craft Silicon to Advance Digital Payments and Simplify Faster Transactions Across Kenya
KCB Bank Kenya, in partnership with fintech firm Craft Silicon, has convened businesses and ecosystem partners to explore how payment systems can be made...
ZEBOX Joins Orange to Scale AI and Digital Infrastructure Solutions
Telecommunications group, Orange has signed a partnership with ZEBOX, the global innovation accelerator founded by the CMA CGM Group, in a move aimed at...
Kenya’s Innovate Now Expands Assistive Technology Accelerator, Placing Persons with Disabilities at Centre of Innovation
Innovate Now, a Kenya-based accelerator focused on assistive technologies, has unveiled its largest cohort to date, signalling a deepening commitment to building products around...
MacTay is Using VR to Transform Emergency Responses Across NigeriaÂ
More than 300 emergency service professionals in Lagos have been trained using virtual reality (VR) technology, marking a shift in how high-risk response skills...
Inside Hamilton’s Push to Build Digital Finance and Scale Dollar Stablecoins Across Africa
Hamilton Labs, a U.S.-based financial infrastructure provider, has secured an undisclosed investment from AXIAN Investment, the venture arm of pan-African conglomerate AXIAN Group, to...
Cashi and IFC is Bringing Digital Finance and Mobile Payments to Underserved Communities in Chad
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has announced a partnership with fintech company Cashi to expand digital payment...
How Ecobarter Is Making Nigeria’s Cities Cleaner and Greener By Using Digital Tools to Solve Waste Challenges
Nigeria’s urban population has grown steadily over the past decade, but its waste management systems have struggled to keep pace. Amid this environmental and operational...
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