A new multicurrency wallet, Pouchers, is seeking to simplify international financial transactions for Africans who earn locally but spend globally. The fintech platform, powered entirely by ...

A new Nigerian AI startup, Veta Origin, has rolled out its large language model across six African countries, aiming to provide AI designed specifically for African users rather than adapting Western ...

In Part 1, we explored how mobile money fraud costs Africa $4 billion annually through SIM swaps, identity theft, and agent-assisted schemes. Now, the emerging threats and whether the continent can ...

It is one thing is for African telcos to post “big” earnings; it is another if it’s enough to accommodate their operational cost and infrastructural upgrades. When revenue is not sustainable, they ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed banks and fintechs to deploy an anti-money laundering tool that detects suspicious transactions and financial fraud in real-time. This is contained in a ...

French media group Canal+ plans to hire more than 1,000 salespeople across Africa as part of a €100 million turnaround strategy for its newly acquired subsidiary, MultiChoice, which has lost 500,000 ...

Let’s get one thing straight: the era of viewing African crypto adoption solely through the lens of retail speculation is ...

Prembly, a compliance and digital security company, has launched FraudLens, an open-source intelligence platform that helps businesses detect fraudulent activity and identify fraud patterns. The tool ...

In May 2022, the APC primary that produced Bola Tinubu as presidential candidate was conducted amid widespread allegations of delegate manipulation. Names on lists did not match faces in halls.

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has launched a public consultation to gather citizens' views on proposals to introduce age restrictions for children using social media platforms in ...

It backed 3,312 African startups with $4.18M, trained 25,245 individuals in new skills, and reached 1.89M people through its programs and portfolio. The company solved unemployment by helping 544 job ...

Nigeria is generating billions of data points every day. But most of the intelligence built from that data is domiciled elsewhere. That is the quiet structural risk in our AI ambition. We are building ...