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    The Ultimate Corporate Shield? How SA Fintech Lesaka Escaped the $5m Ghost of Its Liquidated Subsidiary

    Cash Paymaster Services, the defunct South African fintech and subsidiary of Lesaka Technologies that administered welfare payments to millions...

    BCEAO Sets Hard Deadline for Fintechs Stalling on West Africa’s Interoperable Payments Network

    The mandate, announced this week, forces a reckoning for the region’s largest fintechs and telecom operators.

    Eskom’s Monopoly Gets a Reprieve as South Africa Stalls Energy Trading, Millions in Limbo

    Venture-backed startups and institutional investors have collectively poured millions into the “energy middle-man” economy.
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    Africa’s Electric Mobility Pioneers Turn to Operators in Race for Profitability

    The sector has attracted unprecedented capital.

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    Ghana's fintech sector has attracted intensifying interest from both regional and international players.

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    Sub-Saharan Africa’s showing in GSER 2026 is already the weakest of any region covered.

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    Nigeria’s Central Bank Orders Fintechs to Split Their Payments Empires — or Divest

    The CBN is forcing dominant payments groups to choose between issuing and acquiring, triggering the most dramatic reshaping of Africa's largest fintech market in a decade.

    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.