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    Two-Year-Old Egyptian Fintech Bokra Flips the VC Script With $3M Investment in Pharmacy Tech iSupply

    The iSupply deal follows Bokra’s recent 3 billion Egyptian pound ($58.9 million) sukuk issuance, the first of its kind for the fintech.

    Digital Africa’s Fuzé Lands in Zimbabwe in Push Beyond Francophone Africa’s Startups

    The expansion follows a record year for Digital Africa, which facilitated 29 startup deals in 2024 across 18 African countries.

    TLG Africa Scores $75m to Help African SMEs Bounce Back — with European LPs on Board

    The fund is targeting a total raise of $200 million and is designed to address a critical financing gap faced by African SMEs, particularly those navigating challenging macroeconomic conditions.

    Egypt’s MNT-Halan Raises $50M in Record Bond Issuance as Fintechs Eye Debt Over Equity

    African credit-focused fintechs, whose business models require substantial capital for their lending portfolios, are finding public debt markets increasingly attractive.
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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.

    Your Biggest Customer Is Also Your Biggest Risk

    Hayden Lamberti, a business coach at Grow, writes from Johannesburg, South Africa

    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.

    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.

    Your Biggest Customer Is Also Your Biggest Risk

    Hayden Lamberti, a business coach at Grow, writes from Johannesburg, South Africa

    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

    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