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    ESOP No More: Kenya Wants to Tax Startup Workers’ Equity Before It Pays Off. What Could Go Wrong?

    The proposed ESOP rollback comes at a particularly delicate time for the tech startup scene in Kenya.
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    Ivory Coast’s Julaya Joins List of Fintechs Returning After Regulatory Freeze

    The announcement places Julaya among the first digital finance providers in Francophone West Africa to re-emerge from a regulatory freeze that has paralysed the region’s fintech sector since the beginning of May.
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    The Hidden Infrastructure of Innovation: What Makes Some Spaces More Creative Than Others?

    Paul Keursten (CEO at Workshop17) writes from Johannesburg, South Africa.
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    Jumia’s Rising Orders Aren’t Translating to Profits — Where’s the Disconnect?

    Jumia’s liquidity position declined by $23.2 million in the quarter, leaving it with $110.7 million in cash and short-term deposits. At the current burn rate, the company has roughly five quarters of runway before needing additional funding.
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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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    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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    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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    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

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