A partnership between Nigerian savings and investment startup, PiggyVest, and Nigerian music streaming platform, uduX,...
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African insurtech startup, Curacel, raises $450k pre-seed to expand to 10 new African countries
Nigerian artificial intelligence insurtech startup, Curacel, has announced a $450,000 pre-seed raise led by Atlantic...
In conversation with Laurin Hainey, Fairmoney CEO, on global expansion and reducing Nigeria’s reliance on cash
Africa-focused digital lending company, Fairmoney, recently expanded its services to Asian economic powerhouse, India....
Nigerians, other African merchants can now accept PayPal via Flutterwave partnership
African merchants and its emerging spate of gig workers look set for a major impact on their services as Flutterwave...
Nigerian fintech startup, Cowrywise, raises $3m pre-series A funding led by Quona Capital
Nigerian wealth management startup, Cowrywise, has announced that it has raised $3 million pre-series A funding. The...
Nigeria recorded $428 billion worth of e-transactions in 2020, 42% higher than in 2019
Editor's note [14th January at 9:30pm WAT]: Original headline edited to accurately capture what the NIBSS figures...
Why Nigerian fintech startup, TeamApt is changing business model and expanding across West and North Africa
On January 8, Nigerian fintech startup, TeamApt released its 2020 review to public acclaim. At a glance, the company's...
Fintech predictions for 2021: Visa, Mastercard, to acquire Nigerian fintech giants
Nigeria’s fintech space grew in leaps and bounds in 2020, and 2021 has all the ingredients to build on the growth of...
Reviewing Nigerian fintech predictions for 2020
Despite a global pandemic, Nigeria's financial sector has grown significantly in 2020. At the beginning of the year,...
Nigeria’s apex bank bans Mobile Money Operators from receiving remittances
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has suspended Mobile Money Operators, Payment Switch providers from receiving...
OnePipe is building a super aggregator for every financial service API in Nigeria
This feature was published in December 2020, when OnePipe launched. Nigerian API fintech startup, OnePipe, just...
Backed by Ribbit Capital and Bezos Expeditions, Chipper Cash raises $30m Series B funding
African focused cross-border P2P payments startup, Chipper Cash just announced that it has closed its $30m Series B...
How Nigerian startup, Blueloop, wants to ease cross-border payments for merchants and gig workers
The changing landscape of business and the workplace has received higher significance with the onset of the pandemic....
Kenyan lawmakers want M-Pesa split from Safaricom’s operations
Kenya’s largest telecom service provider, Safaricom might be set for fresh legal battle as the Kenyan parliament is...
Wallets Africa partners with VISA to help businesses issue cards to employees and customers
Nigerian fintech startup, Wallets Africa, has joined forces with global payments giant, Visa, to launch debit cards...
Why API fintech startups are becoming a big deal in Nigeria
2020 has seen the emergence of new kids on the Nigerian fintech block: API fintech startups. After raising impressive...
How former OKash CEO wants to tackle fraudsters and chronic debtors in Nigeria
The lack of a central database to identify repeat offenders is probably a bigger problem than the menace of financial...
Revolutionising Nigeria’s microfinance landscape through Insurtech
In 2012, Nigeria launched a National Financial Inclusion Strategy (“NFIS”) in which it aimed at reducing the...
Why Paystack’s acquisition should be a policy turning point in Nigeria
In what many are tagging the deal of the decade, Stripe has acquired Nigerian payments company, Paystack in a deal...
Paystack has been acquired by Stripe in a deal rumoured to be over $200m
Nigerian payments startup, Paystack has been acquired by US-based payments giant, Stripe. According to a source, this...
Where does your data go when you die?
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After 23 years, Nigeria’s space ambitions still look like a pipe dream
Meet the winners of Techpoint Awards 2021
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Enterprise Hotel is democratising real estate investments for regular Africans
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