Traction raises $6 million seed, to scale its Nigerian operations

Global payments company, Mastercard has agreed to purchase a minority stake in MoMo, MTN’s $5.2 billion fintech business.

Six Fintech accelerators for African startups

Visa Africa FinTech Accelerator, Bank of America Breakthrough Lab, Google Black Founders Fund, African FinTech Foundry, ARM Labs Techstars Lagos Program, AWS FinTech Africa Accelerator.

Mobility fintech Moove raises $8 million to expand its fleet in Ghana

The funding will be used to bolster Moove’s expanding vehicle fleet in Ghana

Visa launches Africa fintech accelerator program

The Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator will empower up to 40 start-ups each year to accelerate and grow through a three-month intensive learning program focused on business growth and mentoring

Flutterwave partners Token.io to provide A2A payments for African e-commerce merchants

African fintech company Flutterwave has partnered with Token.io, a leading account-to-account (A2A) payment infrastructure provider to enhance African e-commerce merchants' access to European customers.

Six Nigerian fintech apps for saving in dollars

These 6 fintech apps help you retain the value of your money by saving in dollars. They are Bundle Africa, Muna, Piggyvest, Cowrywise, Pillow fund and Bamboo

Investment apps compared in 2023: Risevest, Chaka, Trove, Bamboo, Cowrywise, Piggyvest and Pillow

We compared these investment apps across four categories: market share, assets offered, user reviews, fees and charges.

Starlink’s website recommends Payday for payments from Nigeria. So I tried it out.

I used my virtual dollar Mastercard from Payday to order for Starlink to Nigeria and the transaction was smooth.

Why is Ghanaian fintech, Dash CEO on indefinite administrative leave?

Prince Boakye Boampong, the founder and CEO of Dash, a Ghanaian fintech that enables users to move money between mobile money and bank accounts, has been temporarily suspended by the company's board.

An objective analysis of seven payment gateways in Nigeria

We compared seven payment gateways using five metrics to determine the best. The seven payment gateways are Interswitch Webpay, Paystack, Flutterwave, Remita, Seerbit, Fincra and Monnify.

Flutterwave cleared of fraud allegations in Kenya

About seven months later, Nigerian fintech, Flutterwave has been cleared of money laundering charges in Kenya.

Lazerpay to layoff employees as its proposed seed fund’s lead investor withdraws

The CEO and Founder of Lazerpay, Njoku Emmanuel, announces that it will be laying off some of its employees