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    Ivory Coast’s Anka Acquired for Undisclosed Sum Following French Parent’s Swift Liquidation

    The platform facilitated more than $60 million in transactions across 47 African countries, reaching customers in over 170 markets.

    Moniepoint Faces Heavy Losses After Acquiring Bancom Europe to Secure UK Licence

    Filings from the Nigerian fintech unicorn disclose heavy spending on salaries and fees to pave the way for its acquisition of a regulated British payments firm.

    Is Wave’s Golden Era Over? Regulators and Telcos Close In on Payments Unicorn

    Francophone Africa's fintech unicorn is facing its greatest tests yet.
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    BCEAO Opens a New Playbook for West African Fintechs in Diaspora Banking

    The Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) has quietly rewritten a key rule of engagement for the region’s financial system.

    A $23M Pivot: dLocal Takes AZA Finance’s Cameroon Assets After Third-Party Suit Is Dropped

    The original AZA Finance acquisition was framed as a key driver for continent-wide growth, particularly as dLocal faces mixed regional performance.

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    The Riyadh-Cairo Pipeline: Saudi’s VMS Lands in Egypt to Hunt for Seed+ Scaleups

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    BCEAO Opens a New Playbook for West African Fintechs in Diaspora Banking

    The Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) has quietly rewritten a key rule of engagement for the region’s financial system.

    A $23M Pivot: dLocal Takes AZA Finance’s Cameroon Assets After Third-Party Suit Is Dropped

    The original AZA Finance acquisition was framed as a key driver for continent-wide growth, particularly as dLocal faces mixed regional performance.

    From Kiosks to Cloud: The Tech Stack That Made GoTyme Bank Africa’s First Profitable Neobank

    South African digital lender GoTyme Bank — recently rebranded from TymeBank to align with its global parent company .

    Sistema.bio Raises $53M to Turn African Smallholder Farms Into Carbon Projects

    The new financing vehicle, FarmCarbon, will pre-finance biodigesters for 90,000 smallholder farmers in exchange for future carbon credits.