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$175m bet on Africa’s payment backbone
Paymentology, a global card issuer-processor serving banks and fintechs across African markets, raised $175 million co-led by Apis Partners and Asperity in one of the largest single investments in African financial…
Airtel Africa triples profit to $813m
Airtel Africa reported FY2026 profit after tax of $813 million, up 147%, on revenue of $6.42 billion as data overtook voice as the largest revenue…
Safaricom smashes records with KSh80bn dividend
Safaricom posted group net income of KSh99.7 billion for FY2026, up 67%, and declared a record KSh80.13 billion dividend, the largest corporate…
Top African fintech companies 2026
Africa’s top fintech companies in 2026 span payments, lending, digital banking, insurance technology and open banking infrastructure. From…
Africa’s DJ economy: Black Coffee leads $60m music empire
Black Coffee has built a $60 million empire from DJing, Grammy-winning production, tech equity and catalogue ownership. He is the anchor of an…
Cape Town taxis go cashless from June 1
Cape Town’s Codeta taxi association launches a cashless payment system from June 1, replacing cash fares with prepaid cards and the SAPAY smartphone…
LemFi commits £100m to go global from London
Nigerian-founded LemFi committed £100 million to global infrastructure and designated London as its global headquarters as part of the UK-Nigeria…
Flutterwave opens Africa payment rails to the world
Flutterwave and Yuno announced a partnership on April 28 that gives global merchants single-API access to African payment rails across seven…
Kenya Finance Bill 2026 hits KQ and fintech hard
Kenya’s Finance Bill 2026 ends Kenya Airways’ withholding tax exemption on overseas technical payments, expands the royalty definition to cover…
OPay hits $3.1bn as Opera flags 85% IPO probability
Opera’s FY2025 SEC filing values OPay at $3.1 billion and assigns an 85% probability of an IPO within two years. It is the clearest public signal…