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Mastercard will invest 50 million euros in Berlin-based Jumia Technologies, an online retailer focused on Africa, before its initial public offering in New York, according...
Pan-African eCommerce company Jumia filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Tuesday (March 12). Reports confirmed the news...
With the potential for rapid growth and job creation, FinTech firms in Africa have caught the attention of global investors. According to the London Stock...
Standard Chartered announced Thursday (Jan. 31) that it has kicked off the second phase of its initiative to roll out a digital-only retail bank in...
Africa is home to 54 countries and hundreds of millions of smartphone users — young, tech-savvy and ready to embrace digital payments and banking. Emergent’s Saqib...
Emergent Technology, the financial technology company, announced Thursday (Dec. 13) that it has bought Interpay, a Ghana-based payments processor. Terms of the deal were not...
Many Africans who can’t afford to buy a vehicle are becoming drivers for rideshare companies in order to secure a discount and loan on a...
In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, almost 90 percent of all payments and transactions are based on cash. But there is a large opportunity to...
Short ride, long-term appeal? Taxify, the ride-hailing company, is branching out into eScooters in Paris (with plans for more European market rollouts), a change to...