News
Cross-border fintech Airwallex raises $100M Series D extension at new valuation of $2.6B
Airwallex, the Fintech company for cross-border businesses, has announced that it has added $100 million more to its Series D round, bumping its ...
Innovation
German federal bank runs successful blockchain system without a CBDC
Germany’s federal bank, the Deutsche Bundesbank, has run successful tests on a project which bridges the traditional finance infrastructure with blockchain technology. Despite ...
News
ServiceNow takes RPA plunge by acquiring India-based startup Intellibot
ServiceNow has become the latest company to take the robotic process automation (RPA) plunge with its latest announcement that it was acquiring Intellibot, ...
Innovation
African Fintech Foundry, Access Bank to host a second edition of its Fintech Innovation Roundtable
Access Bank’s embodiment of innovation, excellence and leadership has not only shown through the peculiarity of banking solutions it avails to its customers ...
News
CBN opens Global Money Challenge for Young Nigerians
To commemorate the 2021 Global Money Week (GMW), the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has organized a social media contest called the “Global ...
News
Nigerian fintech of the unbanked Bankly raises $2M led by Vault
Nigeria remains a largely cash-dominated country. There are more than 100 million adult Nigerians, of which more than half have little or no ...
News
Orca Security raises $210M Series C at a unicorn valuation
Orca Security, an Israeli cybersecurity startup that offers an agent-less security platform for protecting cloud-based assets, today announced that it has raised a ...
Kenya
Kenya: CBK Gives Borrowers 3 Months to Regularise Bank Loan Repayments
Kenyan bank borrowers have three months (March 3 to June 3) to regularise their loan repayments following the expiry of a one-year window ...
Congo
Liquid deploys 2,500km fibre network to DRC
Liquid Intelligent Technologies, has announced the expansion of its fibre network to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with the deployment of a ...
News
Leader of world’s most powerful central bank says Crypto unreliable for wealth preservation
Jerome Powell, leader of the world’s most powerful central bank, recently disclosed that crypto is unreliable for wealth preservation, and the apex bank ...