After a $40 million Seed funding round, payment startup PalmPay has officially launched in Nigeria. The funding round was led by Chinese company Transsion’s subsidiary,...
Africa’s veteran FinTech firm Interswitch became the sector’s first unicorn following a $200 million investment by Visa that gave it a 20 percent equity stake...
Uber has launched a two-week boat service pilot in the Nigerian capital of Lagos. The city is already well-known for its highly congested roads, and...
Among the biggest ongoing challenges and opportunities in payments – and a trend that will hold well into the 2020s, which are just about to...
Kuda, Nigeria’s first digital-only bank with a standalone license, has raised $1.6 million in pre-seed funding led by Haresh Aswani, as reported on Wednesday (Sept....
Chipper Cash, a no-fee, cross-border payment company started by Ham Serunjogi and Maijid Moujaled, has expanded into Nigeria, according to a report. The company, which...
The biggest telecom company in Nigeria has launched a mobile money transfer service intended to serve the country’s unbanked population, according to a report by...
The U.S. Justice Department has announced charges against 80 people, most of them Nigerians, in a wide-ranging fraud and money laundering operation that netted millions...
Google has announced a new addition to Google Maps in Nigeria that will speak in a local voice and also introduced new features specifically for...