FinTech & AI for Finance Professionals

In today's edition: Flutterwave raises from Circle Ventures || Kenya launches ICT sandbox || Nigeria wants one rulebook for the Internet || Traffic is making St

The US-based blockchain infrastructure company said it is developing technology for real-world asset (RWA) tokenisation, cross-border settlement, and, eventuall

The revocation means Sycamore's planned expansion beyond digital lending into regulated banking services now faces fresh uncertainty.

Nearly two decades after transforming how Kenyans pay, save, and transfer money, Safaricom is turning its attention to a credit market where banks are reluctant

Home Office deals with Deloitte and PA Consulting raise questions over Cabinet Office spending controls

Bending Spoons, the Milan software group that owns Vimeo, WeTransfer and Evernote, has priced its US initial public offering above the marketed range to raise $

Aconsortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, among them Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, launched a new dollar-pegged stablecoin on Tu

Dish, the company that operates Dish TV and Sling TV, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy," as reported earlier by Reuters. The plan will allow the EchoStar-own

The Federal Trade Commission fined Amazon $2.25 million to settle claims that the company failed to help customers who fell victim to identity theft, as reporte

The partnership deepens Paga's infrastructure strategy. Paga Engine, its payments infrastructure business, which it said processed about $12 billion in transact

RELX does not make headlines the way a chip foundry or an AI lab does, which is rather the point of the business. It sells data, analytics, and the dull certain

For all fintech's talk about reinventing credit, the business seems to be circling back to a fairly old idea: lend to people whose incomes you understand and wh

An MFB licence allows fintechs to accept deposits, give loans, and earn interest income from lending, reducing their reliance on transaction fees.

Numbers in the trillions have a way of losing their edges, so it is worth holding this one still for a moment. Samsung is expected to announce plans to invest 1

In today's edition: Quick Fire 🔥 with Sarah Idahosa || The curious case of WayaWaya's "acquisition" || Tala is cutting jobs in Kenya again || Who secured the b

Over the 151 days between January and May, retail investors traded an average of ₦18.94 billion ($13.72 million) in stocks daily, according to NGX data.

The funding comes seven months after the startup graduated from the Alliance DAO ALL15 cohort in November 2025 and positions Daya among a growing group of Afric

SK Hynix has filed to raise up to 45.45 trillion won, roughly $29bn, through a listing of American depositary receipts on Nasdaq, the South Korean memory maker

Samsung Electronics is preparing a share buyback worth about 90 trillion won, one of the largest repurchase programmes a South Korean company has attempted, the

SpaceX has drawn roughly $89 billion in investor demand for its debut US bond sale, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, setting the stage for one of the largest inve

The move reflects a growing market for companies that provide the technology powering digital finance services.

Robinhood Markets is raising two billion dollars through a sale of convertible senior notes due October 2029, joining a surge of zero-coupon convertible issuanc

Fresh from a record IPO that helped make Elon Musk a trillionaire, SpaceX is raising at least $20bn in its debut bond sale to bankroll a vast AI build-out. Spac

Meta is paying $900mn for a fifth of Cred, an Indian fintech. The bigger prize is its founder, Kunal Shah, who will now run WhatsApp. Meta has found its next Wh

The licence allows the company to offer foreign exchange, money transfer, and payment services in Canada through a newly established subsidiary, while also prov

A US federal court has preliminarily approved a $7.85 million settlement in an antitrust class action alleging that Sony monopolised the market for digital Play

France has found another €13bn for its tech sector. And it barely cost the state a thing. The money comes through Tibi, a programme that nudges French insurers

Baran Ozkan spent 15 months looking for software that did not exist. As head of financial-crime product at a European bank, he wanted a single tool to catch mon

For two days, SpaceX was one of the five most valuable companies on Earth. On Thursday, the market began to reconsider. Shares in Elon Musk’s rocket-and-satelli

BMW on Tuesday cut its full-year profit forecast for the car business, lowering its expected automotive EBIT margin to a corridor of 1 to 3 per cent from prior

Lenovo has raised $2bn through seven-year convertible bonds, and the most notable thing about the debt is that it pays nothing. The Beijing-based maker of compu

A federal court has temporarily shut down what the US Federal Trade Commission describes as a sprawling enterprise of deceptive subscription apps, freezing the

Quick context: China is designing a futures market for AI tokens, with the Shanghai Futures Exchange in early stages of designing contracts for AI tokens here A

The rule comes as banks and fintechs expand beyond their traditional niches to serve both consumers and merchants.

Flutterwave, Africa’s most valuable fintech company, has raised a Series E round at a $3.25 billion valuation after a strategic investment from Ripple.

SpaceX is now worth more than Amazon, at least for as long as the rally holds. Shares of the rocket company rose more than 10% on Tuesday, extending a run that

The acquisition comes four weeks after Chimoney announced it was shutting down due to insufficient capital to sustain operations.

I was reading about equipment financing recently and was surprised that approvals can still take weeks or even months in some cases. By the time financing is se

If your electricity bill climbs every summer, a smart thermostat could help keep cooling costs in check. The Amazon Smart Thermostat is an excellent option for

I admittedly have too much time on my hands and have been testing several AI native personal finance apps to see which actually fits the bill (no pun intended).

Razorpay, the Bengaluru payments company, has filed draft papers for an initial public offering through India’s confidential route, according to people familiar

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) mentioned stablecoin(s) at least 68 times in its newly released Payments System Vision 2028 (PSV 2028). For a regulator that o

Crypto users who thought they had found a way into the hottest IPO in years through tokenized SpaceX stock discovered on Friday that the shares would not be arr

For years, sending money across the border was straightforward. Then the process began taking longer and required additional steps.

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft,

SpaceX is now a publicly traded company. In one of the most highly anticipated and controversial public offerings of all time, the rocket venture helmed by Elon

Today on Uncanny Valley, we take an early look at the SpaceX IPO and why you might find yourself among the investors without even realizing it.

Companies are burning through exorbitant sums of money to keep pace in the AI arms race. Debt is climbing.