Browsing: Fintech

South African FinTech group Capital Appreciation Limited (Capprec) is on an acquisition spree in South Africa and the Netherlands. Capprec announced today it…

Pan-African FinTech enablement partner Ukheshe Technologies has appointed Darryn Botha as its Chief Information Officer. Botha’s role will include overseeing…

Naspers, through its tech investment vehicle Naspers Foundry, announced a R15 million investment in Floatpays, an on-demand earned wage access…

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…

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

Entersekt, a global payment security company headquartered in Cape Town, today announced a strategic investment from Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private…

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

African FinTech aYo Holdings has reached a major milestone in its ongoing technology transformation by fully migrating its Côte d’Ivoire…

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…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has finally given an approval in principle towards the licensing of MoMo Payment Service…

MTN Group announced on Thursday that it has added Active MTN Mobile Money (MoMo) customers increased by 2.2 million to…

MTN Group announced on Thursday that it has added 4.1 million new data users in the quarter to September 2021…

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…