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Mobile money dominates FinTech investment in Africa

01 October 2021

Financial technology, colloquially referred to as “fintech,” is accelerating financial inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa—a region that traditionally suffers from limi...

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Meet the woman behind Okra, Africa’s first API FinTech “super connector”

01 June 2020

Raising $1M for your startup in Africa is starting to become more common.

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African FinTech firm Flutterwave raises $35M, partners with Worldpay

22 January 2020

San Francisco and Lagos-based FinTech startup Flutterwave has raised a $35 million Series B round an...

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FinTech in focus at UK-Africa Investment Summit

20 January 2020

The Prime Minister is making the case for the UK to be an ‘investment partner of choice’...

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2019 Africa Roundup: Jumia IPOs, China goes digital, Nigeria becomes fintech capital

31 December 2019

Here’s an overview of the 2019 market events that captured attention and capped off a decade of rapi...

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10 ways Africa’s FinTech sector boomed in 2019

30 December 2019

FinTech remains one of the hottest tech verticals in Africa. This year saw African FinTech startups...

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African FinTech Chipper Cash Gets $6M To Enter New Markets

18 December 2019

Chipper Cash, a FinTech startup in Africa that facilitates cross-border peer-to-peer (P2P) payment s...

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Flutterwave and Alipay partner on payments between Africa and China

08 August 2019

San Francisco and Lagos-based fintech startup Flutterwave has partnered with Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba’s Alipay to offer digital payments between Africa and...

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Is banking security in Africa holding fintech back?

12 July 2019

Many people, including myself, are becoming more interested in what’s going on in African banking and fintech.

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