FinTech & AI for Finance Professionals

The proposal could loosen banks’ and mobile money providers’ control over customer relationships by allowing licenced fintechs to access customer data.

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The company plans to restart services across its app, WhatsApp chatbot, business platform, and application programming interface (API) on Friday.

Fintechs reached the customers banks struggled to serve. Now, the battle is moving to who controls the rails, deposits, credit, and data those customers generat

PayShap, South Africa’s instant-payment rail, has been available to bank customers since 2023.

Since launching in January 2022, PAPSS says it currently connects 30 African countries, 24 central banks, about 200 financial institutions and more than 16 paym

Allawee is the second fintech brand Paystack has acquired and folded into its operations this year.

Mergers and acquisitions have doubled in Africa's digital economy, reaching 84 deals worth an estimated $11.4 billion in disclosed value as of August 2026. From

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cNGN, the Naira-backed stablecoin, is now live on Celo's on-chain FX market, opening up the stablecoin to use cases in cross-border payments.

Investors balk as quarterly capex climbs to $18.4B

£4.3B deal gives telco full control of Britain's largest mobile operator

While its mobile money business continued to attract new users, the suspension of a single product was enough to push the entire fintech division into decline.

Apple has become the second company in history worth $5tn. It got there by being the one big-tech giant that refused to bet its balance sheet on AI. The iPhone

The Safaricom transaction not only expands its geographic footprint but also accelerates its ambition to become a leading pan-African fintech player.

A telecom RF engineer turned SAP consultant, he automates the accounting logic that decides when companies can book revenue, the compliance layer most migration

The acquisition formalises a relationship that began in 2021 when Zedcrest participated in Leatherback’s $10 million pre-seed funding.

Shares in Wise fell about 10% on Friday after the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency declined the money-transfer firm’s application for a national tru

FairMoney Microfinance Bank, a CBN-licenced MFB, is using Point of Sale (PoS) terminals to solve one of lending’s oldest problems: determining which businesses

Tokenised stocks are becoming a dime a dozen in Nigeria's crypto sector as startups race to broaden the use of blockchain beyond digital currencies and into tra

Ant International, the overseas affiliate of Chinese fintech group Ant Group, has raised about $1.2 billion in a fresh equity round to fund its expansion into m

Over the past decade, the playbook for Nigerian fintechs has been remarkably consistent: build payment products, acquire merchants, scale transaction volumes, o

His departure comes after a tenure in which GTBank Kenya sought to strengthen its balance sheet and reposition the business for growth.

PayPal’s board reckons that a $53bn (£39bn) joint takeover approach from Stripe and the private-equity firm Advent International sells the payments pioneer shor

But while that earlier policy reopened official FX access, the latest framework is a digital infrastructure for monitoring the movement of retail dollars.

London fintech Velocity has raised a $38 million Series A to help businesses move money with stablecoins. The Velocity Series A, led by Dragonfly and FirstMark,

WAEMU, an eight-country region, wants to build a connected fintech ecosystem that bypasses the interoperability problem much of Africa faces. At Catapult Africa

Jacobs said customers should not have to think twice about moving their own money because of transaction fees. The debate extends beyond GoTyme's pricing strate

The startup joins other fintechs such as Grey, Flutterwave, and Raenest, which offer stablecoin-powered payment products that enable businesses to collect inter

Float believes the constraints of building in South Africa have given it a competitive advantage in one of the world's most sophisticated fintech ecosystems.

Revolut has appointed Kuba Fast, the former chief executive of Chase UK, to run Revolut Bank UAB, the Lithuania-based entity that holds the fintech’s European b

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

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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

Seoul plans to spend about $900 billion to become K-semiconductor powerhouse

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

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