Investment company Untapped Global on Monday (Oct. 4) announced that it’s expanding its partnership with Nigerian mobile payments platform Paga to help small businesses accept digital payments by lowering the cost for merchants to buy a handheld point-of-sale terminal and other digital tools. The companies...
Paga, the largest mobile payments firm in Nigeria, is aiming to be the next company worth at least a billion dollars in Africa. The company counts 17 million unique users among its ranks, which range from consumers to companies and those who start tech firms....
Cash was long king in Nigeria despite more than a decade of efforts to bring cashless options to consumers, Jay Alabraba, co-founder of Nigerian payments platform Paga, told Karen Webster. The reasons were simple: Cash is known and trusted, and consumers (especially Nigeria’s large unbanked...
Nigerian digital payments startup Paga is expanding its operations with the acquisition of Apposit, a software development startup based in Ethiopia, as reported on Wednesday (Jan. 22). Paga’s CEO and Founder Tayo Oviosu told the news outlet that the Apposit acquisition comes amid the company’s...
August 07, 2020
Cash was long king in Nigeria despite more than a decade of efforts to bring cashless options to consumers, Jay Alabraba, co-founder of Nigerian payments platform Paga, told Karen Webster. The reasons were simple: Cash is known and trusted, and consumers (especially Nigeria’s large unbanked and underbanked population) preferred paying bills in person with cash. […]
November 17, 2021
Nigerian payments platform Paga Group has joined forces with proximity verification firm LISNR to enable contactless ultrasonic authentication and contactless payments across Africa, according to a Tuesday (Nov. 16) press release issued by LISNR. The joint effort is LISNR’s first major collaboration within the FinTech space in Africa and comes on the heels of the […]
October 04, 2021
Investment company Untapped Global on Monday (Oct. 4) announced that it’s expanding its partnership with Nigerian mobile payments platform Paga to help small businesses accept digital payments by lowering the...
June 11, 2021
Paga, the largest mobile payments firm in Nigeria, is aiming to be the next company worth at least a billion dollars in Africa. The company counts 17 million unique users...
January 22, 2020
Nigerian digital payments startup Paga is expanding its operations with the acquisition of Apposit, a software development startup based in Ethiopia, as reported on Wednesday (Jan. 22). Paga’s CEO and...
