AI startup, UTU, has raised US$ 500,000 from Japanese VC firms. Nairobi-based UTU was founded…
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Kenyan telco giant Safaricom is soon introducing “Mali,” an investment tool that will allow M-Pesa…
Alibaba’s financial services subsidiary Ant Financial is set to spend US$ 1 Billion in a…
Vodacom Tanzania has introduced the first vending machine that accepts M-Pesa payments. Customers can select…
MTN has launched “Homeland”, a mobile money remittance service for diaspora-based users. Customers in the…
Applications are now open for the second edition of the Labs by ARM accelerator, which…
Kenyan-based digital drug store, MyDawa has partnered with digital lender, Umba to offer users medicine…
OPay, the Nigerian fintech startup, has disclosed that it has raised $120m in Series B…
Transsion Holdings, the makers of Tecno, Infinix and Itel brands, has led $40 million seed…
Kenya-based users of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba will receive 10% off their purchase if they…
Uber has announced that it is launching a series of financial services under the name…
The Nigerian Stock Exchange has announced the winners of its maiden edition of X-Kathon after…
Carbon, Nigeria’s foremost digital financial services company, has launched Carbon for Business, a digital financial…
AZA Group, the new parent company of brands BitPesa, TransferZero and BFX, has announced a…
London Mayor, Peter Estlin announced funding of £10 million towards the Catalyst Fund. The Catalyst…
The government of Malawi has backtracked on a proposal to levy a 1% tax on…
Airtel Africa has announced a partnership with Mastercard, giving over 100 million Airtel Africa mobile…
Two African startups have been selected for the Fintech Innovation Challenge at Making Finance Work for…
Safaricom has teased a refreshed logo for its mobile money service, M-Pesa. On Monday, October…
Facebook announced the launch of its Libra crypto-currency earlier this year. It also assembled a…