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    Post Mortem: YallaXash — How a Promising African Remittance Fintech Collapsed, Leaving 50 Creditors in Limbo 

    Before its demise, YallaXash boasted an extensive network of over 12,000 physical payout locations in Morocco through partnerships with local financial institutions and cash transfer services.
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    The Gaping Flaws in Africa’s Biggest Crypto Startup Failures

    Booming adoption masks a harsh reality for African crypto startups as funding and trust evaporate.
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    Meet Africa’s Most Active Startup Investors of 2025 So Far

    The year is already underway, and a throng of startup investors is pulling ahead of others.
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    After a ‘Quiet’ 2024, These 12 Prolific VCs Are Reigniting Investments in African Startups

    Nearly 42% of the investments made by these previously “quiet” VCs are follow-on rounds.
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    Yellow Card Acquires Brazil’s GoMoney to Secure Direct LatAm Foothold

    The acquisition of GoMoney Sociedade Prestadora de Serviços de Ativos Virtuais Ltda. converts Yellow Card’s Brazilian presence from a purely cross-border proposition into a locally regulated operation.
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    Chinese Rules, OPay and a Halted New York Listing

    A Chinese regulatory inquiry halted the Nigerian fintech's $304m New York listing hours after pricing. The rules behind it, and the ownership structure it landed on, both emerge from the filings.

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    Nine Years After Its Founding, OPay’s IPO Filing Leaves Questions Over Employee Stock Options

    A court judgment proves OPay granted share options in 2020. Its US filing never mentions them, and investors are left to guess whether that’s a gap or a non-issue.
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    M-KOPA’s Product Margins Halve as Lending Becomes the Main Event

    The African fintech’s gross profit from device sales fell to $57.9m even as revenue rose 45%, exposing a structural shift in the economics of financing smartphones and e-bikes for the continent’s informal earners.

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    Yellow Card Acquires Brazil’s GoMoney to Secure Direct LatAm Foothold

    The acquisition of GoMoney Sociedade Prestadora de Serviços de Ativos Virtuais Ltda. converts Yellow Card’s Brazilian presence from a purely cross-border proposition into a locally regulated operation.
    Updates

    Chinese Rules, OPay and a Halted New York Listing

    A Chinese regulatory inquiry halted the Nigerian fintech's $304m New York listing hours after pricing. The rules behind it, and the ownership structure it landed on, both emerge from the filings.
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    From Disruptors to Form-Fillers: Egypt’s Fintechs Face a New Agent Banking Reality

    Egypt's central bank has written a rulebook for banking agents. It lets banks send identity verification, account applications and card deliveries to places they have no branches. On a close reading, it allows little else.
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    Your Biggest Customer Is Also Your Biggest Risk

    Hayden Lamberti, a business coach at Grow, writes from Johannesburg, South Africa

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