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World Bank estimates put remittance inflows to Sub-Saharan Africa at roughly $54 billion — and in 2026 the money increasingly travels by app and mobile wallet, not by cash counter.
Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and South Africa still take most of the funding — but Dakar, Abidjan, Kigali, Accra, Kampala and Casablanca have built fintech e
Millions of agents power Africa's mobile money economy — a working-capital business of thin commissions, daily float puzzles and rising regulatory exp
Stokvels, chamas, tontines and esusu have moved billions through trusted circles for generations — and in 2026 fintechs are learning to digitise the r
Capital is flowing back into African fintech — but differently: infrastructure over hype, mergers over subsidies, and licences as competitive moats.
Africa still drives roughly two-thirds of global mobile money activity — and in 2026 wallets are becoming platforms for credit, savings and merchant p
From 30% faster onboarding to real-time fraud scoring and alternative credit models, AI has become production infrastructure in African banking.
The Africa Cup of Nations is more than football — it is a live laboratory for mobile money, fan engagement and cashless payments in Nigeria.
African startups raised $2.9 billion in 2023, a 39% year-on-year decline — yet the ecosystem outperformed expectations as debt financing gained share.
Wasoko and MaxAB formalised a merger of equals — the largest deal of its kind in African tech — creating an eight-country e-commerce footprint.
Juniper Research projects AI identity verification will cut digital onboarding times by about a third, with developing markets leading adoption.
From CcHub in Lagos to ROAR Nigeria in Nsukka — five hubs giving Nigerian startups the space, network and support to grow.
Bundle Africa, LocalBitcoins, Paxful and LocalCryptos — the crypto winter and regulation redrew the map of Africa-focused exchanges.
AfDB president Akinwumi Adesina argues Nigeria’s fuel subsidy benefits the better-off and makes the case for private refineries and lower governance c
With a targeted 32% CAGR by 2030, African fintech is becoming an engine of economic expansion — if it can clear the hurdles ahead.
Lagos-based B2B commerce startup Sabi secured $38 million in Series B funding at a $300 million valuation to digitise Africa’s informal economy.
The GSMA’s 2023 industry report confirms Africa’s outsized role in mobile money — driven by regulation, inclusion and pandemic-accelerated digitalisat
Resilience, execution, leadership, ruthless review and training — what Qatar 2022 taught entrepreneurs about building winning organisations.
Three crypto founders — linked to MakerDAO, Amber Group and a forex empire — died within weeks of each other, stirring unease across the industry.
pawaPay raised $9 million to connect every mobile money wallet in Africa through a single payments API built with telcos.
PayQin raised €300,000 to grow its e-wallet and virtual debit card service for the underbanked in francophone West Africa.
Appzone, processing over $2 billion annually for 18 commercial banks, raised a $10 million Series A led by CardinalStone Capital Advisers.
Access Bank’s AccessMore app merges the best of two mobile apps into a “more than banking” experience for 37 million customers.
Chinese capital — from OPay’s agent networks to Lagos payments rails — has quietly become a defining force in African fintech.
How agent banking took root in Nigeria after the CBN’s 2013 guidelines — the benefits for banks and agents, and the challenges that remain.
Chipper Cash closed a $6 million seed round led by Deciens Capital to scale its no-fee P2P payments across Africa, including a push into Nigeria.
From Cyberchain 2019 in Lagos: how decentralized ledgers remove intermediaries from data and money — and what bitcoin ATMs change for everyday spendin
After social media and location services, fintech took the lead as the defining innovation trend — and Africa emerged as its real frontier.
As cybercrime grows more inventive, AI offers security teams a way to spot anomalies in data traffic — but the same tools can be abused.
