Digital banking platform provider Layer has partnered with United Bank for Africa (UBA) to fuel its digital transformation in Kenya. Layer is a ...

54gene, a health technology firm, has been selected among hundreds of candidates as one of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers. This was ...

Standard Bank and Microsofthas announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the digital transformation of Africa’s largest financial institution and further drive the continent’s ...

The World Bank has blamed the Central Bank of Nigeria’s management of the foreign exchange regime as the reason for the FX crisis ...

The Ethiopian government has announced a new tender process to begin the sale of a 40% stake in the state-owned telecommunications company, Ethio ...

Social calendar app IRL has been busy building a messaging-based social network, or what founder and CEO Abraham Shafi calls a “WeChat of ...

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading philanthropy empowering young African entrepreneurs from all 54 African countries, has successfully trained over 200,000 entrepreneurs ...

China has taken a major step in its central bank digital currency (CBDC) tests. The country just debuted and successfully launched blockchain-enabled salary ...

South Africa’s Intergovernmental Fintech Working Group released a new position paper on crypto-assets. In it, they call for the regulation of the country’s current cryptocurrency ...

Tanzania’s president – Samia Suluhu Hassan – urged the country’s Central Bank to prepare for potential crypto adoption. The president of Tanzania – ...