Africa
Africa: Mastercard, Progresssoft Partner to Simplify Remittance in Africa
Mastercard has entered into a strategic partnership with the real-time payment solutions company, ProgressSoft, to ease the integration of Mastercard Cross-Border Services and ...
Egypt
Egyptian Fintech Sympl Raises $6m for Its ‘Save Now, Pay Later’ Service
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) offerings have existed for a long time, but increased in popularity as the pandemic made more people shop ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: uLesson raises $15,000,000 Series-B investment from Nielsen Ventures, others
Nigerian education technology company, uLesson, has announced its $15,000,000 Series-B investment. uLesson now has a record of being the first African edtech company ...
Africa
SEON partners with two African neobanks
Hungary-based online fraud fighters SEON has announced new partnership agreements with two African neobanks, Carbon and FairMoney. With SEON’s help, both companies will now be able to improve ...
Africa
CinetPay gets $2.4 million boost to advance digital payments in Francophone Africa
Pan-Africa focused Venture Capital firm 4DX Ventures and fintech, Flutterwave, have co-invested $2.4 million in digital finance platform CinetPay, to advance its business ...
Nigeria
Nigeria’s digital payroll platform Bento expands to Kenya, Rwanda and Ghana, to enter six other African markets in 2022
Bento, Nigeria’s digital payroll and human resource management platform, is expanding to Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda, with plans to set up operations in ...
South Africa
SA: Tyme raises $180 million in funding deal involving Tencent and UK’s CDC Group
Multi-country digital banking group, Tyme, has secured $180 million Series B capital raise from Chinese multi-national technology conglomerate Tencent and UK impact investor CDC Group. ...
Kenya
Kenya fintech Hisa launches U.S. stocks trading platform for Kenyans
Hisa Technologies has unveiled the Hisa mobile that allows anyone in Kenya to invest in US stocks and ETFs directly from their phones through mobile ...
Nigeria
Nigerian BNPL outfit TradeDepot raises $110 million in debt and equity
TradeDepot, the leading B2B eCommerce and embedded finance platform in Africa, has raised $110 million in an equity and debt funding round to ...
Kenya
Kenya: Workpay partners with Kwara to offer streamlined HR & Payroll services to SACCOs in Kenya
The partnership will enable SACCOs to efficiently manage their Human Resource operations in one platform Digital banking fintech startup Kwara (www.Kwara.com) has partnered ...