March 13, 2017
Why Cybercrooks Love Alternative Payments
By now it’s clear that fraudsters migrate to the spaces where vulnerabilities are available for them to exploit. Now that credit cards are more secure than they’ve ever been, cybercriminals...
January 26, 2017
Transaction Laundering’s Newest Art Form
The good news is that risk and compliance solutions work. The bad news is that, in response, criminals have taken the payments path of least resistance, shifting into systems with...
December 09, 2016
Vantiv, PPRO Team On Alternative Payment Methods
Vantiv, a provider of payment processing services and technology for merchants and financial institutions, announced it, along with PPRO Group, a cross-border ePayment provider, are partnering up to provide international...
September 09, 2016
Why Silicon Valley Has Its Eye On Nigeria
Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg visited sub-Saharan Africa for the first time in August, shining a huge spotlight on the growing tech center within Nigeria. Not only did Zuckerberg’s visit bring...
September 06, 2016
Waving Goodbye To Andela, Hello To Flutterwave
What could motivate someone to leave a Mark Zuckerberg-funded startup to tackle one of the hardest problems in payments? Iyinoluwa Aboyeji did just that in order to unlock Africa’s $380B...
August 26, 2016
Backers Nearly Tip The $100M Mark For B2Bs
Close, but no cigar. It was a busy week for B2B startups, which came oh-so-close to hitting the $100 million mark in investment rounds. The week’s biggest winner landed in...
July 20, 2016
When Cross-Border Payment Pain Leaves Both Sides Hurting
There’s a global phenomenon afoot that takes the notion of cross-border payments to a new level – the high value-low frequency transactions made by a whole new category of sender...
May 04, 2016
B2B Deals Bust (And Zooz Raises Funds For International Moves...
On the consumer end of an eCommerce transaction – these days clicking the buy buttons is usually the end of the road, one way or the other. Usually, the transaction...
March 22, 2016
Orange/Ecobank Launch Bank-To-Wallet Money Transfer Service
Through a new partnership, customers of both Ecobank and Orange will have the ability to top up their Orange Money eWallets through their bank accounts and vice versa. Money can...