CBN Orders Nigerian Fintechs to Split Their Payments Empires or Divest Nigeria's Central Bank has ordered payment service holding companies to unbundle byFatima OladunniJune 17, 2026
Ripple Buys Into Flutterwave to Open New Front in African Stablecoin Wars Ripple has taken a strategic stake in Flutterwave, Nigeria's largest payments byBolu BabalolaJune 16, 2026
Proparco Anchors Morocco LP Position in EmTech’s New $60M Fund Proparco, the private sector financing arm of France’s development agency byBolu BabalolaJune 16, 2026
WATT and MTN Nigeria Partner on 34MW Renewable Energy Rollout for Telecom and EV First WATT, a renewable energy infrastructure company, has signed a partnership byFatima OladunniJune 16, 2026
News NigeriaJune 10, 2026 CreditChek Raises $600K to Fix East Africa’s Broken Credit Data Stack Lagos-founded CreditChek has raised $600,000 to expand its credit data byFatima Oladunni
Africa News StartupJune 10, 2026 MNT-Halan Hits $1.4bn Valuation as Egypt’s Biggest Bank Buys In Egypt's first fintech unicorn MNT-Halan has raised a new funding round led by Al byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsMay 14, 2026 Proparco Backs Cauridor With $2M to Fix Africa’s Broken Remittance Rails Africa receives roughly USD 54 billion in remittances annually byBetty Wangari
Africa NewsMay 6, 2026 Wave Moves Into Healthcare as Senegal Bets on Fintech to Fix Hospital Payments Senegal’s Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene has signed a formal byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsApril 29, 2026 Egypt’s Central Bank Scraps the 40% Fintech Ownership Cap — and Banks Are Already Moving Egypt's Central Bank has scrapped the 40% ownership cap that previously byBolu Babalola
Editorial OpinionMarch 12, 2026 Nigeria’s Credit Paradox: FCCPC Blacklisted 45 Loan Apps, But the Real Problem Is That 521 Others Are Working Uncoordinatedly FCCPC has done the hard work: 521 registered digital lenders, 45 illegal apps byBolu Babalola
Africa News StartupFebruary 26, 2026 Ghana’s Fido Just Raised $5.5M to Prove AI Can Underwrite Africa’s ‘Unbankable’ — Without a Credit Score in Sight With over 1 million customers, $500 million disbursed, and a proprietary AI byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 24, 2026 Morocco’s WafR Just Raised $4M to Turn 100,000 Corner Stores Into Digital Banks. Here’s Why That Actually Works With 20,000 neighborhood shops already processing mobile top-ups, bill payments, byBolu Babalola
EditorialDecember 24, 2025 Too Late to the Party: PayPal’s Return to Nigeria and the Fintech Ecosystem That Thrived Without It In December 2025, PayPal announced plans to launch its “PayPal byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsDecember 9, 2025 Rwanda Launches National Digital Payment System eKash, Built Entirely by African Engineers Country unveils fully interoperable platform integrating banks and mobile money byBetty Wangari
