South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has ordered a full investigation into a series of data breaches targeting banks and financial services firms, ...

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) has completed a live cross-border corporate treasury transaction using tokenised deposits through Swift’s blockchain-based shared ledger, ...

Three years after Olayemi Cardoso assumed office as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, the apex bank has made measurable progress in ...

Ghana has opened its 5G market to greater competition after ending the exclusive wholesale arrangement that gave Next Gen Infraco (NGIC) the sole ...

The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) says the procurement process for six new satellites approved by the federal government is now ...

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) through technical cooperation and knowledge sharing ...

Egyptian fintech lending and payments company MNT-Halan is planning to sell 20% of its issued share capital through an initial public offering (IPO) ...

Nigeria’s Minister of State for Budget and Economic Planning, Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite, is set to deliver the keynote address at DataPro Limited’s sixth ...

Amaanah Non-Interest Finance Company, the first non-interest finance company licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has officially commenced operations in Lagos ...

Safaricom, Kenya’s largest telecommunications company and operator of M-PESA, has partnered with payments company Pesapal to introduce tap-to-pay functionality at physical merchant locations ...

Nigerian-founded fintech Kora has launched One Rail, a new product that integrates stablecoin payments and settlement capabilities into its existing payment infrastructure for ...

The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) and the Wyoming Division of Banking have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to ...

Nigeria’s telecommunications sector increased its contribution to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) to 9.72 per cent in the second quarter of 2026, ...

The Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) has recorded more than 100 million successful transactions on its National Payment Stack (NPS), marking another milestone ...

Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX Group) and the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) are advancing efforts to strengthen cross-border collaboration, with stakeholders from Nigeria and ...

Nigeria is set to expand its satellite communications capacity after Thales Alenia Space signed a contract with NIGCOMSAT Ltd to develop NigComSat-2A, a ...

Nigeria’s data-centre infrastructure has sufficient capacity to support the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) new payment-data localisation requirement, according to industry executives and ...

Bank of Ghana (BoG) Governor Dr Johnson Pandit Asiama has disclosed that he resigned from the Board of Directors of the Ghana Gold ...

Rising damage to fibre-optic infrastructure is putting increasing pressure on Nigeria’s digital economy, disrupting communications, digital payments, business operations and other services that ...

UK-based fintech Revolut has received regulatory approval to acquire Argentinian lender Banco Cetelem from French banking group BNP Paribas, clearing a key hurdle ...