June funding rounds show a recovery in the share of Africa-based investors, but several prominent funds remain absent and the revival is concentrated in a handful of markets.
A new fund-of-funds has done something that has never been done before in Ghana — persuaded pension trustees to allocate to private equity and debt vehicles. The journey took half a decade...
A meeting in Rabat confirmed the fintech's intent, but Bank Al-Maghrib Governor Abdelatif Jouahri made it clear that licensing a foreign neobank is not on the immediate agenda.
From Windhoek to Lagos, stock exchanges across the continent are wooing startups with structured pipelines, listing incentives, and MOU ceremonies. The startups are mostly politely non-committal.
In an ecosystem often criticised for importing foreign business models, this wave of localised AI, built on proprietary, hard-to-replicate datasets, represents a native competitive advantage.
Kigali's ambitious regulation offers zero-cost market entry but demands near-perfect operational performance - and a promise to tear down proprietary battery walls.
The move offers a short reprieve in what has become a high-stakes infrastructure struggle between a determined regulator and an industry whose business models are built on proprietary rails.
The CBN is forcing dominant payments groups to choose between issuing and acquiring, triggering the most dramatic reshaping of Africa's largest fintech market in a decade.
Its mandate is to back start-ups and spin-outs built around technologies, patents and talent emerging from South African tertiary institutions and their alumni networks.
Kigali's ambitious regulation offers zero-cost market entry but demands near-perfect operational performance - and a promise to tear down proprietary battery walls.
As open banking APIs remain patchy across much of Africa, two software engineers are betting that the key to mass-market expense tracking is already buzzing in users' pockets.
