Africa
Pan-African fintech startup, pawaPay, raises $9 million seed for expansion and talent recruitment
Africa-focused fintech company, pawaPay announced the raise of $9 million in seed financing to strengthen its mobile money payment solutions team, scale operations, ...
Nigeria
Fresh from funding and YC, Nigerian B2B marketplace Suplias aims to supercharge its growth
Nigerian startup Suplias, a B2B marketplace where mom and pop stores in Africa buy inventory from manufacturers using a mobile app, is targeting ...
Innovation
Nigeria: Zenith Bank launches intelligent chatbot, ZIVA
Zenith Bank Plc, has introduced an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered Chatbot on WhatsApp named ZIVA (Zenith Intelligent Virtual Assistant), which enables customers to ...
Africa
Angola: BNA Revokes Licences of Financial Institutions
Angola’s Central Bank (BNA) has again cancelled the licences of non-banking financial institutions saying they have repeatedly failed to comply with the rules ...
Ghana
Ghana: Tax Assessment, Payment App in the Offing – VP Bawumia Reveals
The Ministry of Finance and the Commissioner General of the Ghana Revenue Authority, working with the Economic Management Team, have initiated work on ...
Egypt
EGYPT: BANKS WARN AGAINST FRAUDULENT PRACTICES FOLLOWING BANQUE MISR PHISHING INCIDENTS
Banks operating in the Egyptian market have warned their customers of fraudulent practices that they could be exposed to as a result of ...
News
Nigeria: FIRS fines Multichoice with $2.2 billion tax bill
The tax dispute between the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and MultiChoice Group Ltd., Africa’s biggest pay-TV provider, has intensified, as the authorities ...
Egypt
Egypt: MAF Global Solutions enters deal with ITIDA for first shared service center
Egypt’s ITIDA just signed a cooperation agreement with Majid Al Futtaim Global Solutions to set up shared services centers across Egypt. The event took place in the ...
Ghana
Bank of Ghana wins in international arbitration against Sibton Switch Limited
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has won an international arbitration of $478million against Sibton Switch Limited. The case adjudicated under the auspices of ...
Intelligence
Nigeria: Telecoms data usage rises by 202% in three years – NCC
Data usage in Nigeria surged by 202.08 per cent in three years, according to data from the Nigerian Communications Commission. According to the ...