The deal will extend E-SL’s payment service offering, enabling the company attain its goal to expand its footprint across Africa Nigeria-based fintech group, ...

The International Monetary Fund, IMF, yesterday, said that Nigerian banks closed 234 branches and 649 Automated Teller Machines, ATMs, in 2020 leading to ...

Chipper Cash raises $150 million in a Series C extension round led by Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX. Chipper Cash, an African ...

The Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) disbursed N190 billion to 7000 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in 2020 alone, the bank’s Executive Director/Chief ...

The Y Combinator-backed Nigerian fintech startup Lemonade Finance has raised a US$725,000 pre-seed funding round to help it scale. A participant in Y Combinator’s ...

The Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr Lamido Yuguda, has commended the efforts of the management of the Lagos Free Zone ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has revealed that money lending institutions will start auto-debiting bank accounts of chronic debtors. A statement issued ...

Finance Minister Mohamed Ma’eit said that an electronic system will be established at all air, sea and land ports with the aim to ...

Workpay, a Nairobi-based YC graduate, is expanding its operations to Nigeria. The cloud-based workforce management startup will now offer Core HR, Payroll, and ...

“The need for fintech regulations cannot be over-emphasized, but there has to be a baseline. You cannot subject smaller fintech players to the ...