In mid-July, hundreds of African business leaders descended upon Nairobi to discuss trade and investment across the African continent at the African Union High Level Private Sector Forum. The African ...

Ankh meaning in black culture will help you to understand the influence of ancient Egyptian religion. This Egyptian cross is also called an African cross, therefore it’s not odd that many African ...

Chipper Cash, an African cross-border payments company valued at $2.2 billion last year, has laid off a portion of its workforce. Yesterday, a few affected and non-affected employees took to LinkedIn ...

The latest milestone for the Africa Free Continental Trade Area (AfCFTA) plan is the new interconnected Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPPS) which launched in January this year. It will ...

Now, the African fintechs whose technologies helped drive the trend are looking for new ways to serve these customers, and ...

Djibouti Telecom, Ethio Telecom and Sudatel have officially launched a cross-border fibre project The Horizon Fiber Initiative will result in a fibre corridor linking subsea cables in Djibouti and ...

This content is contributed or sourced from third parties but has been subject to Finextra editorial review. Remittances to Africa have hit record highs, but sky-high fees and inefficiencies in Africa ...

KCB Group CEO Paul Russo. The bank has signed an Africa-wide deal with the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS). [KCB] KCB Group has signed an Africa-wide deal to facilitate settlements ...

The high cost of making cross border payments on the African continent has driven governments on the continent to seek options of settling trade and other transactions in local currencies. This has ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. This is an excerpt from the Future of Embedded Finance in ...