Startup
Ghana’s Covibes Launches to Help Musicians in Africa Connect With Top Producers
Covibes, a Ghanaian platform making the connection and collaboration easier between artists, producers and other music creatives from all over the world has ...
South Africa
South African bank to replace 12m cards after employees stole master key
Postbank says employees printed its master key at one of its data centres and then used it to steal $3.2 million. Postbank, the ...
Regulatory
There is a Clear Disconnect Between the Fiscal and Monetary Policies of the Government – Chioma Nkechika
The Chief Executive Officer of Coralpay Limited, Chioma Nkechika has stated that available statistics of banked customers vis-à-vis mobile subscribers and the chain ...
Nigeria
Nigeria’s Fintechs project $543 million revenue growth in 2022
The number of fintech companies in Africa grew at a yearly rate of 24 per cent between 2009 and 2019, fuelled mostly by ...
Nigeria
Petroleum Regulator Releases Strategic Plan for Oil Industry Survival
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Nigeria’s oil sector regulator, has released what it described as the strategic plan and policy for the ...
South Africa
South Africa’s CO.ZA Reaches 1.25 Million Registered Domain Names
There are now over 1.25 million individual domain names registered within South Africa’s flagship CO.ZA Internet domain, according to the ZA Central Registry NPC (ZACR). ...
Nigeria
You cannot financially include someone who is economically excluded– Yele Okeremi
The Chief Executive Officer of Precise Financial Systems, Dr. Yele Okeremi has stated that for people to be financially included, they must first ...
Startup
Nigerian fintech Sycamore.ng unveils peer-to-peer lending platform to enhance access to finance
To address the challenge of access to finance and capital stimulus for small and medium-sized businesses, Sycamore.ng unveiled a product that will provide secured loans ...
Mauritius
Mauritian fund invests $3 million in P2P solar specialist Sun Exchange
Sun Exchange has closed a $4 million Series-A funding round by obtaining a $3 million investment from ARPF, a Mauritian private equity fund. ...
Innovation
Digital banks: ALAT, Kuda, Rubies, Eyowo, V by VFD, and Sparkle compared
After 75-year-old Wema bank launched ALAT in 2017, we have witnessed the launch of a digital bank every year since then. This year ...
