Search Results: fintech (1022)

Johannesburg based FinTech company, Bitventure, a provider of state-of-the-art real-time automated verification and payment solutions, has acquired industry leading smart…

MTN Group, Africa’s largest mobile phone company, has navigated the impacts of COVID-19 to deliver a solid Q1 2022 performance.…

This week, South Africa completed its proof-of-concept, Project Khokha 2, for its looming Digital Rand, which included a decentralised trading platform,…

As worldwide adoption and usage of BNPL grows as the alternative payment method of choice for today’s young consumers, Codebase…

Lipa Payments, a South African-based FinTech start-up, is bringing the “Tap to Pay” experience to Africa’s informal sectors with its…

South Africans have an estimated R300 billion in Krugerrands hidden in drawers and safes, unaware that they could be using…

Forget cash. The rise in digital payment tech, and a big push by businesses to go contactless, has changed the…

Last year saw an unprecedented rate of change in the financial sector, with huge growth in the use of digital…

MyBucks, a FinTech company owned by JSE-listed Afristrat, has been placed under liquidation by the Luxembourg tax authority or l’Etat du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg.…

African FinTech player Flutterwave announced today that it has raised $250 million or R3.7 billion in Series D funding, valuing…

MTN Nigeria has seen strong growth in both FinTech subscribers and active data users for the year to end-December 2021.…

German software company SAP is making a foray into FinTech through the acquisition of US-based provider of working capital management…

THEFinTech business of retailer Pepkor, previously Steinhoff Africa Retail, reported a decline in revenues for the three months ended December 2021. Pepkor…

Ithala Bank-backed FinTech startup BlackPay announced the launch of a number of loan products tailored for traditionally black festivities. From…

MNT-Halan, Egypt’s FinTech player, has announced the successful addition of its Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) feature to its comprehensive digital ecosystem that…

MTN Group today announced the appointment of Hermann Tischendorf as our Chief Technology & Information Officer for Digital and Fintech.…

South Africa’s FinTech player Crossfin is eyeing acquisition opportunities in the remittance market. The plan is for the company –…

FinTech has lit a fire under start-ups and instilled fear in large brick-and-mortar financial institutions for many years. While agile…

Patrice Motsepe-backed ARC Financial Services Holdings (ARC FSH) and Ethos Mid-Market Fund I buy South Africa’s innovative FinTech player Crossfin…

South African payments company Ozow has attracted Tencent, a world-leading internet and technology company, in its $48 million or R747…

JSE and Nasdaq-listed Net1 UEPS Technologies is buying Fintech player Connect Group for R3.7 billion. The acquisition of the Connect…

Despite having been one of the least financially inclusive and one of the most costly regions to send money to,…

In 2020, as the world was ravaged by the coronavirus, investment into financial technology (FinTech) companies in emerging markets decreased…

South African FinTech start-up Peach Payments has recently set up an office in Mauritius in pursuit of its pan-African expansion…

MTN Group today announced the appointment of Adekunle Awobodu as our new Chief Financial Officer for Digital and FinTech. Kunle…