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Announcements and deep-dive analysis about the financial technology (fintech) space in Africa.
Standard Chartered Bank to suspend international debit card spending from August 1st
The decision to suspend the usage of their debit cards internationally might not be far-fetched from the scarcity of foreign exchange
2 Nigerians sentenced in the US over $160m money laundering case
Two Nigerians, Anslem Oshionebo and Opeyemi Odeyale have been sentenced to 27 months in prison in the United…
Jackye Madu speaks on her journey into tech, solving payment issues with Azapay
The Tech Queen says she keeps looking out for feedback, so growth is sustained, and she also "looks forward to enjoying the journey of creating solutions"...
Africa-focused fintech, Zazuu raises $2m to solve inconsistencies with cross-border payments
Zazuu grew from a simple information chatbot on Facebook and Telegram to an FCA-licensed organisation in the UK with users in eight countries across North America and Europe
B2B payments in Africa slowed by high transaction costs, manual processes- report
Despite these challenges, bank transfers and other digitised payments are fast replacing cash and cheques for business-to-business payments...
Kenya startup, Duhqa raises $2m in seed round funding
Plans to expand its merchant network, provide more digital tools to its expanding market...
How Olufunto Boroffice is making business funding easy with Quidroo
In this week’s edition of women in tech, Olafunto Borrofice talks to Technext about the experiences that led her to become a tech founder...
Meet the new Flutterwave CTO, Gurbhej Dhillon
Gurbhej Dhillon was Managing Director, Technology Fellow, CTO, and Head of Lending Engineering for Marcus
Eventhive set to host government and fintech summit in August
Conversations targeted at positioning Nigeria’s fintech industry for further growth and development.
‘Why Nigeria needs more fintech companies’, experts argue in a Spaces session
Experts discuss the scope of the fintech space in Nigeria, and why the country needs more solutions
