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Moniepoint Lent ₦1 Trillion Using Payment Data as Gospel. Two Massive Defaults Just Exposed the Limits of Knowing Everything Except What Happens Next. Nigeria's fastest-growing fintech disbursed ₦1 trillion to 70,000 businesses in byBolu BabalolaMarch 6, 2026
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Africa NewsMay 30, 2024 16 African Fintech Startups Selected for Visa’s Fintech Accelerator Program. Visa has announced the African startups chosen to participate in the second byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsMay 30, 2024 Safaricom picks 9 Kenyan startups for M-Pesa Spark Accelerator. Nine early-stage Kenyan startups have been chosen to participate in the Spark byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsMay 30, 2024 African Banker Awards name Flutterwave 2024’s Fintech of the Year. The prestigious African Banker Awards named Flutterwave, Africa’s most valuable byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsMay 30, 2024 Flutterwave gets the green light to operate in Mozambique with a preliminary payment license. Flutterwave, one of Africa’s foremost payment companies, has achieved a byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsMay 29, 2024 Starlink Obtains Operating License in Botswana. Botswana has granted an operating license to Starlink, the satellite internet byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaMay 29, 2024 Paystack acquires Brass, and fires top management. Brass, a Nigerian banking startup, has been acquired by a consortium led by byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsMay 29, 2024 WFF Startup Innovation Awards for Agri-food startups, Applications now open. African agri-food startups are invited to apply for the WFF Startup Innovation byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsMay 29, 2024 Copia Kenya’s parent company enters administration after funding failure. B2C e-commerce company Copia Global, the parent company of Copia Kenya, has byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsMay 28, 2024 MPOST launches digital e-P.O.Box system in Rwanda. East African digital postal service MPOST has officially launched its e-P byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsMay 28, 2024 Applications are open for Obuntu Launchpad for Africa-focused fund managers. Africa-focused fund managers have been invited to apply for the Obuntu Launchpad byMuhammed Mustapha
