Australia’s financial services sector has come together in an unprecedented coalition to promote a transformation of the country’s financial system to prioritise prosperity ...

Anthemis, QED Investors and Seedcamp have invested $4 million in embedded finance startup Weavr. Weavr offers a set of APIs that make it ...

Agriculture fintech company TerraMagna raised $2 million in seed funding for risk mitigation, providing farmers in Brazil access to working capital. ONEVC led the round and ...

THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has advises banks and other financial institutions to reduce the cost of providing banking services to their ...

Fintech space grew 800% during COVID-19 as CBN lists pandemic lessons Despite the pandemic, the Financial Technology (Fintech) payment space in Nigeria grew ...

Africa presents a wealth of opportunities for startups and innovators looking to address cybersecurity risk across the increasingly digitised continent – according to ...

  According to the VCA report, most small businesses have taken bold steps to prepare for the seasonal sales activity that kicks-off with ...

MTN Nigeria has partnered with Gameloft to launch MTN Gameworld – a new gaming platform for its subscribers. The platform is expected to ...

PostBank Uganda and UnionPay International, the world’s largest payment cards company, have unveiled UnionPay PostCard, a new payments and transaction card to enable ...

Organisations in the COVID-19 pandemic era have been forced to look at their security hygiene best practices in order to minimise risk, data ...

Hope PSBank, a subsidiary of Unified Payment Services Limited and Nigeria’s premier digital-first bank has unveiled its brand identity as part of activities ...

  The Deputy Governor, Financial System Stability, CBN, and Chairperson of the National Financial Inclusion Technical Committee, Mrs. Aisha Ahmad, has charged stakeholders ...

The South African Reserve Bank has announced that cheques will not be supported by the country’s national payment system from 1 January. The ...

London-based remittance firm, TransferGo, has received £4 million in financing from Silicon Valley Bank’s UK branch (SVB). The pre-Series C investment funds will ...

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today published further information on its 2020 assessment of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs), based on end-2019 ...

Adoption of Crypto-Assets in Africa and Regulation Crypto asset, digital asset, virtual asset, or other nomenclature you choose, this is the product of ...

  9 Payment Service Bank (9PSB), dubbed the first Payment Service Bank designed to transform financial services in Nigeria by providing creative and ...

Interswitch, Africa’s leading technology-driven company focused on the digitization of payments in Africa, has announced its partnership with Finastra, one of the world’s largest ...

Leading financial technology company, expressPay, has introduced into the Ghanaian market, a smart Point of Sale (POS) device to enhance merchant payments. expressPay ...

In mid-2020, Upstream’s Secure-D anti-fraud platform revealed that the total number of malicious mobile applications doubled in the first quarter of the year. The analysis ...