BREAKING: Moniepoint to cut engineering, product roles in major restructuring

The changes come as the fintech expands beyond its established Nigerian operations and grows its presence in Kenya.

The Moniepoint alumni building their own startups

Moniepoint is beginning to produce its own crop of founders. This list profiles 16 of these former employees and the businesses they have gone on to build.

The CBN announced a fintech licence shake-up in 2026, the process began a year earlier

In January 2026, a CBN director, Yemi Solaja told the Committee of Heads of Banks' Operations conference in Lagos that institutions including Moniepoint MFB, OPay, and Kuda Bank had already been upgraded.

Why a growing remittance business was not enough for Moniepoint

MonieWorld’s shutdown highlights the high cost of UK expansion and the tough economics facing African fintechs entering crowded remittance markets.

Level Up: What working at PiggyVest, LemFi, and Moniepoint taught Omotoso Dolapo about success

"Some of the kindest people I know are those I met at PiggyVest, and many are still close friends. I also learnt that it was okay to make friends in the workplace."

Moniepoint taps former Branch Kenya CEO to head its Kenya operations

Moniepoint has appointed former Branch Kenya CEO Rose Muturi to lead its Kenyan business following its acquisition of Sumac Microfinance Bank.

Moniepoint, Flutterwave, LemFi, Moove, and Paga named in Endeavor’s 2026 outliers cohort

Five Nigerian companies were selected for Endeavor’s 2026 Outliers cohort, making up nearly half of Africa’s representatives in the global network of scaleups.

The super app graveyard: ‘Everything apps’ just don’t work in Africa

Even with its massive scale and a $300 million Fintech 2.0 upgrade, M-Pesa remains a reminder that absolute reliability is a myth in African fintech.

Wise receives conditional approval for Nigerian remittance (IMTO) licence

We explore what this means for Wise's African expansion, and if it can compete with local players like LemFi and Moniepoint.

3 questions Moniepoint must answer now

Is Moniepoint’s rapid growth being subsidized by the very people it claims to be including, or is this a deliberate extraction of wealth from Nigeria's most vulnerable micro-entrepreneurs?

OPay is losing Nigeria’s PoS agents to Moniepoint as CBN deadline nears

As the April 1 deadline approaches, thousands of OPay devices that were once active in Ekiti and beyond could be returned.

How tithes and offerings became an ₦8 trillion use case on Moniepoint

The data shows that religious giving is increasingly processed through fintech infrastructure, and Moniepoint has effectively become a conduit for one of Nigeria’s largest, least-examined financial flows.