News
SA: Standard Bank adds Google Wallet to contactless payments
Standard Bank South Africa has now added Google Wallet to its growing list of digital payment methods, which customers have largely embraced as ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: Standard Alliance drags NAICOM to court
Standard Alliance Insurance Plc has dragged the insurance industry’s regulator, the National Insurance Commission, to the Federal High Court in Lagos over the ...
News
Nigeria: Agusto projects 23% return on equity for Nigeria’s banking industry in 2022
Agusto & Co. has projected a 23% return on equity in 2022 for Nigeria’s banking industry. The pan-African credit rating agency and business ...
News
Global: World Bank excludes Nigeria from $315m food security cash
Nigeria is missing from the list of beneficiary countries for the $315 million World Bank fund for African countries to support food security. ...
Innovation
Nigeria: NITDA Opens Application for Technology Bootcamp for Kids
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), under the supervision of Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy has called on interested parents ...
News
Nigeria: National Assembly Orders Customs To Block GTB From Duty Collection At Ports
Investigations at the port revealed that several cargoes have been trapped at the port since because freight forwarders could not complete their clearance. ...
Ethopia
Ethopia: Ethiopian Crypto Providers Will Now Need To Register With CyberSecurity Agency
Cryptocurrency service providers that are operating in Ethiopia have been instructed to register with the nation’s cybersecurity agency. The cybersecurity agency is called ...
Africa
Africa: Grey raises $2M to simplify cross-border payments across Africa
The service offered by Grey enables its customers to have virtual international bank accounts for free and enjoy a seamless foreign payment process ...
Africa
Africa: Anchor, a banking-as-a-service platform joins Y Combinator’s Summer 2022 (S22) Batch, announces the launch of public beta
Anchor is launching its public beta API infrastructure to make it easier for African businesses to build, embed and launch financial products Anchor ...
Ghana
Ghana: Fitch downgrades 3 Ghanaian banks’ viability rating to ‘CCC’ from ‘B- ‘
International rating agency Fitch has downgraded the viability ratings of three Ghanaian banks to “CCC”. The Banks are Ecobank Ghana Limited, Guaranty Trust ...