Tuesday, July 8, 2025
No menu items!

digital financial services

Collaboration to Empower 1M SMEs in Cote d’Ivoire & Uganda

The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, MTN Group Fintech, and Arifu have collaborated to help approximately 1 million small businesses in Cote d'Ivoire and Uganda digitize their operations, increase their use of digital financial services, and gain access to...

MultiChoice Zambia Partners with MTN Mobile Money

MTN Mobile Money and MultiChoice Zambia have announced a new partnership that will allow DStv and GOtv customers to win prizes for subscription payments done via MTN Mobile Money (MoMo).  The competition is open only to DStv and GOtv customers...

3 Crucial Reasons Why Financial Services Need to Accelerate Digital

“Go digital or go dark” - Companies that fail to heed this advice, irrespective of sector, run a great risk in the age of technological revolution. Consumers prioritise convenience and will often not see the need to step out of...

The Future of Micro-finance in Emerging Markets

The pandemic has emphasised, beyond a point of reasonable doubt, the importance of technology to our modern world. Just as video calling and messaging have allowed us to work, study and socialise, fintech has played a similarly critical role...

Nigeria’s Paylater rebrands to become a ‘digital financial services platform’

Paylater, the Nigerian fintech company specializing in consumer lending, has confirmed its name change in light of its growing banking services.   The company is re-launching as "Carbon", the rebrand reflects the company's deliberate transition to a fully-fledged digital financial services...

OneFi acquires Amplify to shape Nigeria’s fintech infrastructure

One Finance Limited (OneFi) has announced the acquisition of Amplified Payments (Amplify), a fintech company that builds and facilitates payment solutions and digital financial transactions in Nigeria. The deal, completed for an undisclosed fee, will see OneFi boost its financial...

Nigerian fintech startup closes $5.5 mln Series A Round

Nigerian fintech company, TeamApt has closed on a $5.5M Series A round, led by Quantum Capital Partners. The Lagos-based company is a leader in the development of Digital Banking, Digital Business solutions and running Payment Infrastructure for Africa. Today's...

Developing talent across the continent in the digital financial services space

A recruiter, whether external or internal, formal or informal, plays a crucial role in both a candidate’s and an employer’s work life. If recruitment companies are to survive the proverbial rat race, they have to stay ahead of their game...

Lidya raises $6.9 million in a Series A led by Omidyar Network

Lidya, a digital financial services platform that provides access to credit for micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Africa, announced that it has raised $6.9 million in a Series A investment round, one of the largest in Nigerian...

ITU Telecom World 2017: Exploring smart digital transformation

Artificial intelligence can crunch the numbers on inconceivably large volumes of data, predicting trends, mitigating problems, driving a revolution in socio-economic development. Smart machines can learn, understand, develop and, in many areas, out-perform humans. But what will be the...
- Advertisement -spot_img

Latest News

NAMFISA Empowers Consumers with New Education Portal

NAMFISA, in collaboration with Green Enterprise Solutions (Green), officially launched its Consumer Education Website. Held at NAMFISA’s Head Office in...
- Advertisement -spot_img