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NEWSFLASH

Mastercard and Moovn Sign Five-Year Deal to Expand Digital Payments Across East Africa 8 hours ago

Vodacom Retains $1.6 Billion Safaricom Stake as Kenyan Court Fast-Tracks Appeal 9 hours ago

South Africa to Let Fintechs and Telecom Operators Access Payment System Without Banks From 2027 9 hours ago

Africa Blockchain Festival 2026 Brings Investors, Regulators and Startups Together in Nairobi 12 hours ago

CBN Moves to Make Nigeria-China Payments Easier as Cardoso Plans Beijing Talks 14 hours ago

Reports

Mastercard and Moovn Sign Five-Year Deal to Expand Digital Payments Across East Africa

by Kingsley Okeke

October 19, 2026

Mastercard and Moovn Technologies have signed a five-year strategic agreement to widen digital payments in East Africa. The deal pairs...

Vodacom Retains $1.6 Billion Safaricom Stake as Kenyan Court Fast-Tracks Appeal

October 19, 2026

South Africa to Let Fintechs and Telecom Operators Access Payment System Without Banks From 2027

October 19, 2026

An image of a speaker at the Africa Blockchain festival

Africa Blockchain Festival 2026 Brings Investors, Regulators and Startups Together in Nairobi

October 19, 2026

CBN Governor Olayemi Cardoso discusses Nigeria-China payments and financial cooperation ahead of Beijing talks.

FinTech & Digital Money

CBN Moves to Make Nigeria-China Payments Easier as Cardoso Plans Beijing Talks

October 19, 2026

Policy & Regulations

Ghana Begins Collecting 20% Tax on Netflix, ChatGPT and Other Foreign Digital Services Through Banks

October 17, 2026

FinTech & Digital Money

Onafriq Shuts Down Baxi Agent Banking Business in Nigeria, Five Years After Acquisition

October 17, 2026

Morocco AI Ministry targets $10 billion economic boost and 50,000 jobs by 2030

Artificial Intelligence

Morocco Creates First AI Ministry, Targets $10 Billion Economic Boost and 50,000 Jobs by 2030

October 17, 2026

Cybersecurity

Fraud Has Become an Industry. Why Are Banks Still Fighting It as Though It Were a Collection of Individual Crimes?

October 17, 2026

Technology

Tesla Roadster Flips Midair in Explosive SpaceX Powered Unveiling

October 16, 2026

Fintech News

FinTech & Digital Money

South Africa to Let Fintechs and Telecom Operators Access Payment System Without Banks From 2027

by Staff Writer

October 19, 2026

The planned reform, announced by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) on October 16, 2026, would mark a major shift...

FinTech & Digital Money

Africa Blockchain Festival 2026 Brings Investors, Regulators and Startups Together in Nairobi

October 19, 2026

FinTech & Digital Money

CBN Moves to Make Nigeria-China Payments Easier as Cardoso Plans Beijing Talks

October 19, 2026

FinTech & Digital Money

Onafriq Shuts Down Baxi Agent Banking Business in Nigeria, Five Years After Acquisition

October 17, 2026

Global News

Tech Policy in Africa

Policy & Regulations

Ghana Begins Collecting 20% Tax on Netflix, ChatGPT and Other Foreign Digital Services Through Banks

by Staff Writer

October 17, 2026

Ghana has introduced a new collection system for taxes on foreign digital services, requiring participating banks and payment providers to...

TikTok Sued in Abuja Over Access Blackout in Northern Nigeria

October 8, 2026

Kredete Acquires South African Crypto Licence to Power Stablecoin Payments

October 7, 2026

Digital banking trust in Nigeria as banks strengthen cybersecurity and customer protection

How Breach Claims Can Strengthen Trust in Nigeria’s Digital Banking

October 6, 2026

NDPC Registration in Nigeria: How Data Controllers and Processors Can Register

October 5, 2026

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Axon AI observability platform created by Nigerian software engineer Feyi Ogunsanya

Exclusive Interviews

Meet the Nigerian Engineer Behind Axon: The Open-Source Tool Helping Developers Debug AI Agents

by Covenant Oluwadunsin Aladenola

July 29, 2026

When Feyi Ogunsanya found herself spending more time piecing together logs than building AI applications, she realized the problem wasn't...

Trippa's delivery platform, built to tackle Nigeria's last-mile delivery costs through routing, dispatch automation, and real-time tracking

E-Commerce

How Trippa Is Solving Africa’s Most Expensive Delivery Problem

by Onyinye Moyosore

July 25, 2026

Last-mile delivery eats up 35 to 55% of shipping cost in African e-commerce, nearly double the global average. Trippa's head...

Exclusive Interviews

Bootstrapped? No Excuses: How Paul Ugochukwu Obere Faced Giants, Grew Revenue, and Dropped CAC for One of Nigeria’s Leading Crypto Exchanges.

by Onyinye Moyosore

April 28, 2026

Crypto is an unforgiving market. Low barriers to entry, fierce competition, and no room for campaigns that look good but...

Exclusive Interviews

Google Ads Adoption. Cloud. Fintech. AI. Chidinma Aroyewun Has Been at the Frontier of Every Wave. Here Is What She Learned.

by Ifeanyi Abraham

March 12, 2026

Across the world, artificial intelligence is changing how businesses find customers, measure performance, automate marketing, and make growth decisions. In...