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    US Senate Waters Down 5% Remittance Tax in Big Win for African Fintechs

    For these companies — names like Chipper Cash, LemFi, Flutterwave, and TapTap Send — a 5% tax on remittances out of the U.S. would have fundamentally altered their business models.

    Bank of Ghana Revives Its List of Unapproved Fintechs

    Just weeks after calling out Yellow Card over its alleged involvement with a dubious stablecoin scheme, the central bank has returned with another blacklist .

    UPDATE – Tax All the Taxable: Nigerian Tech Startups Walk Into 2025 With New Taxes — What’s at Stake?

    On Thursday, June 28, President Bola Tinubu signed into law four new tax bills, describing them as pivotal to the success of his administration's reforms and the country's prosperity.

    Licence Applications for Foreign Banks Now Open in Ethiopia

    Ethiopia's central bank has issued a long-anticipated directive that lays out the licensing framework for foreign banks and investors looking to tap into Africa’s second-most populous nation.
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    Why This Ex-Lantmäteriet Developer Is Building a SaaS Layer for African Property

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

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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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    Drone delivery group's valuation nearly triples to $21.5bn as Walmart commits to 300 new sites, but capital is explicitly earmarked for US build-out while African operations rely on separate government-backed financing.

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    Nigeria’s New Stablecoin Rules: $11M, a Local Office, and a Prayer for Startups Without Bank Balance Sheets

    Central bank’s 200-page rulebook trades prohibition for licensing — and sets the bar high enough to make bankers of crypto founders.

    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.