Ask most people to imagine a typical cryptocurrency enthusiast and they’ll probably picture a young man. And by and large, they’d be right. Despite female engagement being at an all-time high, 90% of all Bitcoin is held by men. There’s also research showing that 94% of crypto buyers are...
Ukheshe’s SME in-a-box solution is making tangible changes to the lives of millions in Zambia through a partnership with Digital PayGo, improving financial inclusion and enhancing business dealings for entrepreneurs.
Digital PayGo, a local Zambian fintech driving a mobile-first approach, enhancing the digital payment space for SMEs, is the first...
Binance, one of the world’s leading blockchain ecosystems and cryptocurrency infrastructure providers, has relaunched its futures products in South Africa via a partnership with Fivewest OTC Desk (PTY) LTD, one of the country’s leading fintech service providers for trading pairs.
The relaunch of these products included a significant period of...
Binance, one of the world’s leading blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency infrastructure providers have launched a crypto education tour across 5 countries in French-speaking Africa as part of its mission to drive blockchain adoption and enable greater financial accessibility in the region.
On September 10 2022, Binance kicked off the first...
Clickatell, a CPaaS innovator and Chat Commerce leader, has partnered with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to deliver fast, simple, and cost effective eNaira banking services to all Nigerians using the USSD channel, eliminating the need for data and available on all handsets.
Clickatell has collaborated with the CBN...
In Q2 2022, Kaspersky solutions detected 40,788 new modifications of miners. According to Kaspersky Security Network data, in the African region, the number of home users affected by cryptominers in Q2 of 2022 decreased slightly compared to the previous quarter.
However, the possibility of a surge in cryptomining attacks persists...
Many people know of Philip Belamant, the South African serial entrepreneur who is best known for co-founding Zilch, one of the most impactful fintech companies to have disrupted, strengthened, and supported the buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) market. Zilch has made this industry a safer space for consumers to shop without being...
The Ethereum Merge, a key upgrade to its blockchain ecosystem is complete.
This will go down as a “landmark, historic moment” for the entire cryptocurrency market that will be a “major catalyst” driving prices higher in the long term, predicts the CEO of deVere Group, one of the world’s largest...
Orange Money, the mobile money service of Orange and leading Pan-African payments company, Cellulant have announced a new partnership to enable card-to-wallet transfers for eight banks in Botswana.
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The Orange Money Card-To-Wallet service in Botswana enables customers to transfer money online from any bank account to an Orange Money wallet.
The...
Saving is one of the oldest tricks for wealth creation. However, as consumer spending habits change, it becomes increasingly difficult to follow any saving rule or budgeting plan. As such, anyone who is interested in saving to build wealth needs to go an extra mile and learn the tips...
Before looking at the taxation of NFTs, it is important to understand what they are. In short, an NFT, or non-fungible token, is a unique blockchain-based digital asset. Being unique in its properties, an NFT cannot be duplicated and the content linked to it could take any digital form, for example,...
Digital Finance Africa 2022, the definitive annual event on technology leadership in the financial services industry returns on the 22nd of September 2022 as a brand-new hybrid concept.
The 2nd annual Digital Finance Africa is set to take place on the 22nd of September 2022, at The Maslow, Sandton, South...
Over the past couple of months, a lot of people crawled out of the woodwork claiming to know everything there was to know about cryptocurrencies. More specifically, as the prices of the world’s biggest coins fell, they were happy to tell you that they always knew that cryptocurrencies would...
Global financial services giant Visa has announced that it recently signed a partnership with the Financial Services Consumer Education Foundation (‘FSCEF / the Foundation’) worth $200,000 (approximately R3.35 million) to support financial education in South Africa.
The partnership is specifically focused on two financial education programmes namely The Financial Literacy...
Cryptocurrencies gained global traction during the pandemic, increasing exponentially and gaining an impressive foothold in Africa, says a policy brief released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). It also unearthed some impressive statistics – currently, there are more than 19,000 cryptocurrencies available, there were only...
