China’s digital currency comes to its biggest messaging app WeChat, which has over a billion users
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KEY POINTS Tencent-owned WeChat, China’s largest messaging app and one of the country’s biggest payment services, will begin supporting the digital yuan….
Lydia, France’s answer to the fintech super-app, has raised $100 million in a Series C round, according to a report from TechCrunch. Existing investors…
Ivory Coast-based fintech startup CinetPay raises $2.4m seed round from Flutterwave, 4DX Ventures
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Ivory Coast-based startup CinetPay, a digital finance platform that enables merchants in Francophone Africa to seamlessly accept and make payments, has raised…
Andrew Takyi-Appiah, the co-founder of Zeepay, shared tips on building a successful fintech business. This he did during the Ghana Fintech Outlook 2021. The…
Kenya’s economy is powered by informal businesses, which contribute 33.8% to the country’s GDP and provide 83.4% of the total employment outside of small-scale…
Some industry players and organisations making strides in the financial technology (fintech) space have been honoured at the maiden edition of the…
Some of the most innovative models in fintech we’ve seen have come out of our Africa portfolio, such as the way Pula…
Global tech talent platform Andela attained a $1.5 billion valuation this September and is currently the only non-fintech unicorn from Africa. Foreign capital propelled…
MFS Africa, Africa’s largest digital payments network, has raised a $100 million Series C funding, an investment divided into two commitments: $70…