Growing CEO departures in 18 months mark the end of the continent's "blitz-scaling" era and the uncomfortable arrival of institutional governance.

As global investors pour millions into African cross-border infrastructure, local central banks appear to be pushing back.

Egypt’s Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) has issued a statement categorically denying reports that it ordered the closure or operational suspension of branches operated by non-banking financial institutions, most of them fintech firms.

Fewer than one in twenty newly formed African-focused funds can write a cheque above $10m. The continent's largest deals in the first half of 2026 were financed by debt and by global capital with no African mandate at all.