The latest moves in African fintech: funding shifts, policy, market events and industry milestones.
Capital is flowing back into African fintech — but differently: infrastructure over hype, mergers over subsidies, and licences as competitive moats.
African startups raised $2.9 billion in 2023, a 39% year-on-year decline — yet the ecosystem outperformed expectations as debt financing gained share.
Three crypto founders — linked to MakerDAO, Amber Group and a forex empire — died within weeks of each other, stirring unease across the industry.
AfDB president Akinwumi Adesina argues Nigeria’s fuel subsidy benefits the better-off and makes the case for private refineries and lower governance costs.
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 cas
Five years after the eNaira made Nigeria the first African CBDC issuer, the continent's central banks have swapped launch euphoria for careful pilots — retail and wholesa