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Klump raises $780k pre-seed funding for its credit and BNPL offerings

Klump wants to become the preferred alternative online checkout and in-store payment processing company, providing customers and merchants with flexible payment solutions for products and services

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Flutterwave 3.0: New products, major rebrand as African fintech giant goes beyond payments

A few days after becoming Africa's most valuable startup, Flutterwave hosted a flagship event to unveil its major rebrand and also announce its prospect for the coming years.

Fintech

A Recap of FintechNGR Fintech Outlook 2022

An annual intellectual webinar which attempted to take a 360 overview of Nigeria’s fintech space, what it portends globally and how stakeholders can draw industry insights.

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How API fintech companies are powering Africa’s consumer ecosystem

An API is a set of functions that allows applications to access data and interact with external software components, operating systems, or microservices.

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ImaliPay expands to South Africa, names Stitch as fintech partner

ImaliPay has partnered with Stitch as its payment and open banking partner as part of its South African expansion strategy.

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Airtel Money launches Developer Portal to provide open APIs

Airtel Money has launched a new Airtel Africa Developer Portal to provide open APIs. How has MTN's API marketplace, Chenosis, fared?

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ImaliPay partners Cellulant to drive gig workers’ financial inclusion

ImaliPay has partnered with Cellulant to change the way gig workers experience making and receiving payments.

Fintech

20 African companies listed in the 2021 Inclusive Fintech 50

Twenty African companies including Thrive Agric have been selected by the Centre of Financial Inclusion for the 2021 Inclusive Fintech 50 (IF50).

Opinion

How fintech is disrupting traditional banking in Africa

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the African fintech ecosystem has remained prime to investors and several African entrepreneurs are joining the buzz of creating convenient solutions for the continent’s increasingly populous consumers.

Financial Services

Predatory lending in Nigeria—what is the way forward?

Predatory lenders employ deceptive and aggressive sale tactics to attract unsuspecting borrowers into taking loans they cannot afford.

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New CBN regulations require fintechs to pay $5million into escrow account

Yesterday, the CBN introduced yet another set of sweeping new regulations for Fintech license holders. The most prominent change is a new Escrow account created for Fintechs to deposit certain stipulated sums of money.

Fintech

Meet the 10 African startups and their founders that got into Y Combinator Winter 2021

Ten African startups have made it into the Y Combinator Winter ’21 batch. This brings the number of African startups in YC to 50.

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