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    NewTrails Capital, Backed by Africa’s Leading Smartphone Manufacturer, Invests $55M in EV Startup Spiro

    The Chinese growth-stage fund - whose backers include Transsion Holdings, the Shenzhen company that dominates Africa's mobile phone market ...

    Ripple Buys Into Flutterwave to Open New Front in African Stablecoin Wars

    The blockchain payments company's Series E participation cements RLUSD in Africa's largest payments network - but Flutterwave is not betting on any single coin.

    Remittance Fintechs Brace for Longer Delays and Higher Fees Across Central Africa

    The Bank of Central African States is tightening its grip on diaspora transfers, placing compliance pressure on payment service providers.

    DBSA Doubles Down on EV Charging With Backing for Zimi

    The investment follows the DBSA's $5.6m (R100m) commitment to Zero Carbon Charge last year
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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.

    Your Biggest Customer Is Also Your Biggest Risk

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

    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.

    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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    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.

    Your Biggest Customer Is Also Your Biggest Risk

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

    Journify Raises $12M Series A to Take Ad Signal Infrastructure into US and Europe

    The startup, which has grown revenue fivefold, wants to fix the 'incomplete picture' that ad algorithms receive as privacy restrictions erode traditional tracking

    Enza Raises $6mn as Investors Bet on Africa’s Payments Plumbing

    Egyptian payments infrastructure provider secures Seed+ round led by 4DX Ventures, with British International Investment joining as new backer