Fawry, Egypt’s largest electronic payments network, is accelerating its push into direct lending, securing a EGP 250m ($5.1m) financing facility from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The move marks a distinct pivot for the financial technology group as it seeks to...
Since the Act came into force, DICON has pursued a pattern of institutional openness — one that has generated a succession of MoUs and, with them, structural questions.
In October 2025, during the National Cyber Security Awareness Month, President Mahama stood before a phalanx of cameras to unveil the Fintech Growth Fund.
Nigerian tech workers risk double taxation under a system that relies on speculative guesses about their bank activity rather than verified financial data.
Two years after the celebrated appointment of a “tech bro” minister, funding has collapsed, high-profile startups are dying, and a brutal economic crisis is testing the ecosystem's famed resilience to its limit.
A review of H1 2025 funding data shows investors are doubling down on familiar faces and proven formulas, making it a tough year for anyone who doesn't fit the mould.
When a founder has to build the roads, install the plumbing, and write the laws before they can even open their shop, the standard metrics of growth and burn rate become dangerously misleading.
