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Onafriq, Africa’s largest digital payments network, today announced a strategic partnership with Visa to launch Visa Pay, a cloud-native Payments-as-a-Service platform designed to expand digital financial access across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Through this partnership, consumers in the DRC will be able to conveniently fund their Visa Pay wallets directly from mobile money […]
...Africa’s leading payments technology company, Flutterwave, has recently announced the launch of its referral program through Send App, its cross-border remittance product. The integration of Swap into Send App has empowered users to effortlessly convert Nigerian Naira (NGN) to foreign currencies, facilitating smooth cross-border money transfers. Remittances are a critical engine for Africa’s projected $1.5 trillion digital […]
...Payments, people and strategy are key to opening up new ways of transacting in South Africa South Africa’s payment ecosystem is a tangle of legacy banks, fintechs, telcos and card schemes, all jostling for a slice of the transaction pie. It’s a space where smart and ingenious capture customer attention, and where people need to […]
...Paycorp, the global payments group with deep roots in South Africa, has announced a strategic investment in Currency Stream, a UK-based fintech specialising in real-time foreign exchange and multi-currency payment solutions. This partnership will accelerate Currency Stream’s growth in Europe and unlock new expansion opportunities across Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Paycorp will bring capital, […]
...Building a fintech startup is the trend in Africa, and there seems to be a new financial product every month. But after seeing clones after clones of savings apps, it’s refreshing to see people building in other areas. More than $1.07 billion flowed into Africa’s startups in 2020, with the fintech sector accounting for the […]
...The digital world is growing exponentially across the continent The rapid urbanisation, technological and economic growth seen in Africa is exceedingly going digital, opening up a successfully secured venture into e-commerce technological investments. Evidence of what is predicted can already be seen in Africa’s major cities, where a growing number of consumers have greater disposable […]
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