The investment reflects growing interest in African workforce technology aimed at deskless employees.

The Cairo-based advisory platform is taking control of a bank-backed private equity vehicle, a move that blurs the line between deal broker and principal investor.

The Lagos-founded autonomous systems company has added $18m to its seed financing and plans to expand manufacturing in Ghana while opening its first international office in London.

Fuelled by informal workforces and bank credit gaps, vehicle-financing platforms are building cross-continental empires.

The Nasdaq-listed payments group settled its restructured Africa transaction without paying cash.

Chinese-language money laundering networks (CMLNs) have begun openly marketing their financial services to operators in five sub-Saharan African countries, according to latest reports.

Egyptian digital payments and fintech group e-Finance for Digital and Financial Investments has agreed...

Growing CEO departures in 18 months mark the end of the continent's "blitz-scaling" era and the uncomfortable arrival of institutional governance.

African e-commerce group Jumia Technologies was left with just $367,000 of total equity at the end of June

Egypt’s Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) has issued a statement categorically denying reports that it ordered the closure or operational suspension of branches operated by non-banking financial institutions, most of them fintech firms.

As the Central Bank of Egypt raises risk weights and tightens bank funding rules, the country’s largest listed consumer lender is looking to fee-based revenue to protect its growth.

Tokyo-based Cordia Directions secures ¥600mn in loans from government-affiliated lenders to expand its Kenyan used-car platform.