Tag: Business

In a move that underscores the growing convergence of digital banking and ethical finance in the Gulf, ruya, a UAE-based digital-first Islamic bank, has...

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...

On a dusty morning in 2019, in Alapa village, Asa Local Government Area of Ilorin, Kwara State, a young man named Agboola Fadaride opened...

On an evening in Yaba, Lagos, two young engineers were staring at a laptop screen that kept failing to process a payment. One of...

Mashreq, a financial institution in the Middle East and North Africa, has partnered with healthcare platform Toothpick to launch an embedded financing solution that...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has announced a partnership with fintech company Cashi to expand digital payment...

Littlefish, a South African fintech start-up building financial infrastructure for small businesses, has raised $9.5 million in a Series A funding round to scale...

African businesses and diaspora communities spend billions each year on cross-border payments, yet delays and high fees remain a persistent problem. Wole Ayodele, co-founder...

Canadian fintech startup, WeSpare, believes it has found a way to solve one of the oldest problems in Nigeria’s informal savings system as it...

Long queues, crowded aisles and slow checkouts are a universal frustration for shoppers and a costly headache for retailers. For Samuel Ayo Oyedemi, the...

Kenya’s instant payment infrastructure is taking a significant step towards continental financial interoperability after Pesalink, widely regarded as the country’s de facto real-time payment...

As Africa’s travel and tourism sector continues to expand, many of the operators powering that growth remain reliant on manual processes and fragmented digital...