Fintech
Kenyan Fintech Jahazii Secures $400,000 Pre-seed Funding to Formalise Africa’s Informal Workforce
Kenyan fintech startup Jahazii has raised $400,000 in pre-seed funding to advance its mission of formalising Africa’s vast informal workforce and improving financial ...
Kenya
Kenya’s Landmark Crypto Bill Awaits Presidential Assent to Become Law
Kenya is set to make regulatory history with the passage of the Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP) Bill, 2025, which has successfully scaled ...
Kenya
Kenya Plans Mandatory CSR Contributions to Fund Startups in Major Innovation Drive
Kenya is preparing a groundbreaking policy that will require large corporations to dedicate a portion of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) budgets to ...
Kenya
Kenya Moves Closer to Crypto Regulation as VASP Bill Advances in Parliament
Kenya is edging towards comprehensive cryptocurrency regulation after its National Assembly approved the Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP) Bill at the committee stage ...
Kenya
Kenya: Pesalink partners with Cellulant to tap premium payments market
Pesalink, Kenya’s interbank money transfer platform, has entered into a strategic integration with pan-African fintech Cellulant through its digital payments platform, Tingg. The ...
Fintech
Kenya’s Mobile Money Penetration Hits 91%, Cementing Global Fintech Leadership
Kenya has reaffirmed its status as a global trailblazer in digital finance, with mobile money penetration reaching an unprecedented 91% by June 2025, ...
Kenya
Kenyan Remittance Startup Bonto Shuts Down Two Years After Launch
Nairobi-based remittance fintech Bonto Kenya has shut down operations just two years after launch and less than eight months after receiving regulatory approval ...
Kenya
Kenya: Pesalink–TendePay Alliance Targets Faster Payments for Kenyan SMEs
Kenya’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are set to benefit from faster, high-value transactions following a new partnership between Pesalink and Nairobi-based fintech ...
Kenya
Kenya: CBK Unveils Cybersecurity Operations Centre to Bolster Banking Sector Defences
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has launched the Banking Sector Cybersecurity Operations Centre (BS-SOC), a dedicated hub to strengthen cyber resilience across ...
Kenya
Kenya: Safaricom Upgrades M-PESA Capacity to 6,000 Transactions Per Second
Safaricom has completed a major upgrade of its M-PESA platform, boosting processing capacity to 6,000 transactions per second — the most significant enhancement ...