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Western Union teams up with MFS Africa to enable cross-border mobile money transfers in Africa

MFS Africa has entered into a partnership with Western Union. The partnership will enable funds to be sent from countries around the world to mobile wallets across Africa.

Consumer Tech

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.

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Flutterwave’s ~$51 million released by Kenyan authorities

Kenyan authorities have unfrozen KSh6.6 billion (~$51 million) belonging to African fintech unicorn, Flutterwave.

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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.

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Pade HCM lands $500k pre-seed to automate HR processes for African businesses

Nigerian HRTech company, Pade has secured $500,000 pre-seed in a round led by Zrosk IML, Zedcrest Capital, Microtraction, Expert Dojo, and Resilience 17

Fintech

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.

Fintech

Flutterwave cleared of fraud allegations in Kenya

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

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With Metopay, Nigerians in the diaspora can now exchange fiat currency

Metopay is a web platform allowing its Nigerian users to exchange foreign currencies through peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions safely.

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Flutterwave wants to acquire UK fintech, Railsr

Global payments company, Flutterwave wants to acquire Railsr, a UK-based fintech company, according to Sky News UK.

Zero to Scale

Zero To Scale 2.0: Ijeoma Akwiwu — Co-founder and COO at Pivo Africa

Co-founder and COO at Pivo Africa, Ijeoma Akwiwu talks about building a digital bank for trade in Africa.

Fintech

Nigerian fintech apps that helps you send and receive money from Abroad

Fintech apps that help Nigerians send and receive money from abroad are Afriex, Kyshi, Send by Flutterwave, Lemonade Finance and Africhange.

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BD Insider, Letter 136: One fintech, three licenses

BD Insider, Letter 136 examines how Elon Musk's Twitter takeover will affect Africa and Uber's decison to lower commission fees in Kenya to 18%

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