Oversubscribed final close above $75m target highlights early-stage resilience as international investors weigh macroeconomic volatility against long-term demographic bets.
A Toyota-backed fund, an Abu Dhabi sovereign investor and a Hong Kong merchant bank sat at the centre of August's largest African-linked funding round. None of them was there by accident.
A little over a year ago, Moniepoint pushed back publicly against a Launch Base Africa report detailing heavy losses at its newly launched UK operation, calling the figures overstated.
Fewer than one in twenty newly formed African-focused funds can write a cheque above $10m. The continent's largest deals in the first half of 2026 were financed by debt and by global capital with no African mandate at all.
The regulatory fallout from the Global Paradigm affair signals that Cairo’s toleration for aggressive fintech origination tactics has reached its limit.
Nigeria’s proposed plan—demanding that withholding tax be paid in the native token and remitted to a government-controlled wallet—is a radical departure from global norms.
Standard Bank’s research found that eight out of 10 businesses in the informal sector are unregistered, making access to finance for expansion nearly impossible
