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Top Story: Budgety: How Chisom Ezeh Is Using AI to Make Budgeting Easier for Africans and North Americans
With over seven years in fintech, Nigerian entrepreneur Chisom Ezeh is redefining personal finance management through Budgety, an AI-powered budgeting app helping users across North America and Africa build healthier money habits.
For Ezeh, celebrating achievements doesn’t come naturally. Like many founders, she often focuses on what’s next, new features to develop, more users to onboard, and targets still to be met.
But recently, Ezeh took a moment to celebrate Budgety, as it officially tracked over 100,000 financial transactions, a milestone that signals growing trust in the platform and steady progress toward its vision of making financial literacy simple, practical, and empowering.
“As a founder, it’s easy to focus on what’s next – the features to build, the users we haven’t acquired, the KPIs we haven’t hit,” Ezeh wrote in a LinkedIn post. “But today, I want to pause and celebrate something meaningful. BUDGETY has now tracked over 100,000 transactions.”
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Diacente Group Launch $5.5 Billion Project to Build Uganda’s National Digital Infrastructure – Here’s What This Means
Diacente Group, a Ugandan developer of green industrial zones, has announced a $5.5 billion partnership with US-based Global Settlement Network (GSN) to build a national digital infrastructure connecting the country’s farms, mines, factories, and power projects.
According to Diacente Group, the project will help make trade faster, cheaper, and more transparent, particularly in a country where over 80% of the workforce operates in the informal economy.
“This partnership goes beyond infrastructure; it’s about unlocking long-term value for our people and our region,” said Odongo Solomon, CEO of Diacente Group. “By integrating tokenization and CBDCs into Uganda’s development roadmap, we’re creating transparent, tech-driven ecosystems that attract new capital, empower local industries, and scale sustainable growth from the ground up.”
The plan aims to create a programmable economy where real production is digitally linked, tracked, and financed in real time. At its core is Uganda’s first central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital shilling, which will be backed by treasury bonds and integrated directly with everyday economic activities.
Quadri Adejumo brings you all the details. Read here.
Also Read:
Ghana’s Affinity Africa Crosses 100,000-Customer Mark, Redefining Digital Banking Access. Yakub Abdulrasheed brings us the details, here.
Quote of the Day:
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke.
Thank you for joining me yet again this evening. Stay safe, and see you tomorrow for the next tech newsletter.
Best, Quadri
