Browsing: Fintech

In today’s fast-paced, wealth-driven world where customer service often ends at the point of sale, true business success requires solid,…

Cape Town-headquartered venture capital (VC) firm HAVAÍC has completed its third investment in Kenyan FinTech Tanda. The investment from the…

Ukheshe’s SME in-a-box solution is making tangible changes to the lives of millions in Zambia through a partnership with Digital…

Brazilian FinTech company Ebanx is expanding its operations and payments solutions outside Latin America. The company said in a statement…

Verdant Capital has raised $10 million or R161 million of debt funding for Zeepay.  The medium-term debt raise, which forms…

On the back of two major interest rate hikes in the first half of 2022 alone and rapidly rising costs,…

Key to unlocking value chains, especially in the tech startup space, is the ability of large, established corporates to work…

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) announced plans to begin regulating cryptocurrencies in 2023, treating them as financial assets rather than as…

MTN Group’s Mobile Money Application Interface (API) is inviting developers across several markets to participate in an Open API Hackathon,…

FinTech-start-up MortgageMarket is the latest tech start-up to be involved in a major lifestyle residential development in South Africa; with…

MTN Group today announced the appointment of Riaan Wessels as Chief Risk Officer: FinTech with effect from 1 July 2022.…

Super apps, banking-as-a-service, behavioural banking and cyber security. These are just a few of the trends that promise to make…

MTN Group announced the appointment of Andrew Goodrich as Executive for Banktech in our Group FinTech team, effective 1 June…

The 2019 Future of Payments in South Africa report by Deloitte and Mastercard stated that “although 80% of South Africans…

Naspers, through its early-stage tech investment vehicle Naspers Foundry, announced a R40 million ($2.5 million) investment in LifeCheq, a FinTech…

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

African insurtech aYo Holdings has taken the next step in its ongoing technology transformation by rolling out a cloud-based enterprise…

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

MTN announced today it has received a final approval licence to operate its mobile money platform in Nigeria, the continent’s…

Over the past decade, mobile money has expanded from a niche offering in a handful of markets to a mainstream…

Mobile money adoption and use saw continued growth in 2021, processing a record $1 trillion or R14.5 trillion annually. The…

Telviva CTO Antony Russell says that when one walks into the Mobile World Congress (MWC) you expect to be surrounded…

The COVID-19 pandemic, without a question, forced the world into the digital realm. It also widened the divide between the…

The first businesses in the Middle East and Africa region have started to experience the seamless ease of Mastercard’s Track…

MTN, Africa’s largest mobile phone company, reported it had 56.8 million mobile money (MoMo) customers as of the end of…