Nigeria enters mobile banking era with MTN’s payments licence
The Central Bank of Nigeria has granted a licence to a subsidiary of MTN Nigeria to provide financial services...
Category : Fintech
Ant Financial backed Indonesian fintech Dana looking for new investors
Dana is the only Indonesian startup in which Jack Ma’s Ant Financial has taken a stake...
Japan for cryptocurrency SWIFT network to fight money laundering
The Japanese government is cooperating with FATF and other nations for the cryptocurrency payments network initiative...
OPay to use $50 mn funding to boost fintech and Nigerian businesses
Lead investors in the startup's funding round include IDG, Sequoia China, and Source Code...
KCB Bank Kenya commits Sh10 mn for ‘fintech in the Savannah’
Next week’s Afro-Asia Fintech Festival is hosted by the Central Bank of Kenya and the Monetary Authority of Singapore...
UK digital bank Monzo to fight for US market share after £2 bn valuation
Monzo raises £113 million in a fresh round of funding, doubles its customer base to two million...
Now Razer allies with Visa for Southeast Asia payments innovation
The value proposition of the Razer-Visa fintech solution is that users need not have a bank account...
Saudi Arabia’s central bank licences 14 new fintech startups
The newly licenced fintech startups are lending startups or payments startups...
New South Korean digital banks: applications by two consortia rejected
External evaluators found the applications led by fintech Viva Republica and brokerage Kiwoom inadequate...
Startup Chile invites women founders to apply for pre-accelerator
Women startup founders will receive $25K equity-free funding, a year-long work visa, and free co-working space...