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Moove Raises $76 Million to Transform Financial Services for Mobile Gig Workers

The funding round led by Mubadala and BlackRock brought African-born, global mobility fintech Moove $76M to accelerate its expansion

Events

13th Africa Bank 4.0 Summit – West Africa

13th Africa Bank 4.0 Summit — West Africa 10th – 12th October 2023 EKO Hotel & Suites, Lagos, Nigeria #africanbanksummit Event Link: https://www.biiafricabanksummit.com Event Registration: https://www.biiafricabanksummit.com/register/ Download Event Agenda: https://www.biiafricabanksummit.com/download-agenda/ After the success of 12 successful editions, the 13th Africa Bank 4.0 Summit – West Africa, will be focused on “Scaling Digitally Upwards for a […]

Society & Lifestyle

Remedial Health Gets Fresh Funding From QED to Digitize Nigerian Pharmaceutical Sector

Remedial Health, a Nigerian startup bringing efficiency to the local pharmaceutical value chain has raised $12 million in Series A equity-debt funding to scale up operations

Blockchain & Crypto

Nigeria Adds NFC Function to Boost eNaira Adoption

The Nigerian central bank hopes that the addition of NFC technology will improve the adoption rates for the country’s CBDC – eNaira

Fintech & Ecommerce

Google Cloud & Moniepoint to Serve Underbanked Businesses in Nigeria

Africa-focused business banking platform Moniepoint will make financial services more accessible to SMEs even in remote regions of Nigeria with the help of Google Cloud and its scalable infrastructure

Fintech & Ecommerce

Access Bank Unveils Amex Cards in Nigeria

Nigeria-based Access Bank rolls out two new credit cards for local consumers: the Access Bank American Express Gold card and the Metal Platinum card

Blockchain & Crypto

Nigerian SEC Targets Binance Following the US Suite

Binance is facing legal troubles in Nigeria a few days after the US SEC took legal action against the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange

Society & Lifestyle

Wema SME Business School Launches in Nigeria

Wema Bank Business School 5.0. for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria will hold in Benin City, Edo State, from May 22 to 26, 2023

News

Nigerian B2B E-Commerce Startup Sabi Raises $38 Million to Serve African Retailers

Sabi’s Series B funding round values the company at $300 million and powers the startup’s goal to serve the 50 million small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Africa 

News

Facctum Launches Anti-Fincrime Tech for Nigerian Banks

The new anti-financial crime solutions harness the power of parallel processing technology to help Nigerian financial institutions modernise financial crime detection

News

Nigerian SEC Considers Tokenized Assets Not Crypto

Preparing new industry regulations for digital asset platforms, Nigeria doesn’t plan to include cryptocurrencies According to Bloomberg, the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is considering allowing licensed digital exchanges to list tokens backed by certain assets. However, the regulator clarified it didn’t concern cryptocurrencies. Despite the previous reports that the government of Nigeria is preparing to […]

News

Unlimint to Provide Payment Services in Nigeria: License Secured

Having received its Payment Solution Service Provider (PSSP) License from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), fintech Unlimint is going to launch in the Nigerian market

Finance & Economics

Central Bank of Nigeria Releases Open Banking Guidelines

The newly released operational guidelines from the Central Bank of Nigeria clarify responsibilities and expectations for the open banking ecosystem participants in the country

Finance & Economics

MasterCard Partners NowNow to Boost Cybersecurity for Nigerian SMEs

Nigerian digital payment startup NowNow has joined forces with global payment giant Mastercard to improve the cybersecurity options available to Nigerian SMEs who typically do not have the resources to defend themselves from massive cyber attacks

Articles

Agri-Fintech: What It Is and Why It’s on the Rise

Last year brought a steady rise in socially responsible fintech products that are specifically designed for the needs of the agricultural sector. Agri-fintech is a very promising segment of financial technologies, so we’re going to discuss it in detail

Finance & Economics

Nigerian ATMs Run Dry

There is an acute shortage of new banknotes in ATMs in Nigeria.