Benjamin Dada Dada

Juicyway raises $3 million pre-seed to power cross-border payments for Africans

Founded in 2021 by Ife Johnson and Justin Ziegler, Juicyway enables individuals and businesses to send, receive, and process payments globally.

Access Bank expands to Europe, picks Malta as launchpad

Malta's robust financial sector, which grew by nearly 12% between 2022 and 2023, make it an attractive destination for Access Bank

Condia Insider: Next African fintech M&A?

The stories are: HUB2's $8.5M Series A, TalentQL's expansion of AltSchool to Europe, more fintechs comply with stamp duty in Nigeria

Ivorian fintech HUB2 raises $8.5M to become the “Stripe of Francophone Africa”

Founded in 2019, HUB2 offers a unified API to simplify payments for neobanks, payment companies, remittance services, and crypto providers.

Condia Insider: Big growth, massive loss for Interswitch

Interswitch’s latest financial report is a tale of contrasts: soaring revenues and unexpected losses.

Temu enters Nigeria. How will it survive where others like Jumia have struggled?

Nigerians love affordability, but the real question is: can Temu outpace homegrown giants like Jumia and Konga?

Verve cards are now accepted on AliExpress. But their issuing business tells a sweeter story

Verve has grown card issuing by 40% year-on-year, in the last two years. This article reports the news of their partnership with AliExpress while going deep into three growth eras they've experienced.

Hisa co-founder Eric Jackson steps down post-Risevest acquisition

Fellow co-founder Erick Asuma left the business last year. Eric Jackson solely ran Hisa since the beginning of the year and will now be looking to "touch some grass".

Could stablecoins transform the broken nature of cross-border payments?

What are the challenges and opportunities in the space and could stablecoins transform the broken nature of cross-border payments?

African startups’ participation at the Money20/20 USA event

Meet 10 African startups attending Money20/20 next month in Las Vegas, USA

Wise enables local payouts to Nigeria for the nth time

Wise (formerly TransferWise) is restarting naira transfers to Nigeria for the third time after a two year pause. This time it will have to compete with other local and well-funded players like LemFi and Flutterwave $end.

Stripe to soon allow US retailers to sell directly to Nigerians

Nigeria is one of the two markets where Stripe has begun to allow merchants to accept local payment methods without having to set up a local entity.