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    Can Product Thinking Crack Africa’s ‘Wickedest Problems’? This Lagos Fund Thinks So

    For a continent where 60% of the population is under 25, the stakes are high.
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    Swvl Reports Strong Q1 2025 Growth, Achieves Profitability Amid Strategic Expansion

    Facing existential threats, Swvl’s leadership implemented a brutal but effective survival plan.
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    South Africa’s Community Wolf Lands Funding to Take Anonymous Crime Reporting Global

    South Africa’s crime rates remain among the highest globally, yet many incidents go unreported due to distrust in authorities, fear of retaliation.
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    European DFIs Back $80 Million Pan-African Private Credit Fund 

    Africa’s mid-market businesses — often too large for microfinance but too small or risky for traditional bank lending — face an estimated $330 billion annual financing shortfall, according to the African Development Bank.
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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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    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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    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.
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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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    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

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