Africa

Grey raises US$2 million to simplify cross-border payments across Africa

Grey, a FinTech started to simplify sending and receiving foreign payments for Africans, has raised US$2 million in seed funding. The service offered by Grey enables its customers to have virtual international bank...

PalmPay hits 10 million user milestone in Nigeria

PalmPay, a FinTech innovator aiming to make digital payment more accessible and flexible, has announced that it has reached 10 million users in Nigeria. This represents a doubling in its user base within just six...

Banque Misr ensures banking Business Continuity and digital employee...

Banque Misr, one of Egypt’s largest banks, has announced a Digital Transformation partnership with global technology company SAP in support of Egypt Vision 2030, for Business Continuity and employee engagement during and p...

Global development finance coalition commits over US$5.5 billion for MSME...

The  coalition for a sustainable and inclusive recovery of the private sector – an international group of 20 development finance institutions that came together in 2020 – has announced commitments of over US$5.55 billi...

BFS goes live on Temenos SaaS to deliver finance faster

Temenos, the banking software company, has announced that Barko Financial Services (BFS), a South Africa-based microfinance institution, has gone live on Temenos Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to make it faster and...

Blockchain is propelling finance, trade and government initiatives in Africa

Blockchain is a type of distributed ledger for maintaining a permanent and tamper-proof record of transactional data. A Blockchain functions as a decentralised database that is managed by computers belonging to a...

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