Africa’s digital payments ecosystem will take centre stage as Digital PayExpo 2026 returns to Lagos on June 17–18, 2026, at the Landmark Centre, Victoria Island, under the theme: “Seamless Digital: ...

MySpace is preparing for another comeback. The platform’s current owners, brothers Chris and Tim Vanderhook, say they are actively working to relaunch the once-dominant social network, positioning it ...

In March 2025, Paystack, the Nigerian fintech giant acquired by Stripe for $200 million in 2020, made its first major leap into consumer payments with the launch of Zap, a mobile app built around a ...

Amazon’s official confirmation of 16,000 global job cuts may only be the beginning of a sweeping organisational overhaul. While the Seattle-based technology giant has publicly framed the redundancies ...

Moniepoint says it disbursed over ₦1 trillion in credit to Nigerian businesses in 2025, processed ₦412 trillion in transaction value, and now powers 8 out of every 10 in-person POS payments across the ...

Mastercard, the global payments giant, has today announced a definitive agreement to acquire stablecoin infrastructure startup BVNK for up to $1.8 billion. The acquisition, first reported by Bloomberg ...

Online design platform Canva has increased the price of its Pro subscription in Nigeria from ₦2,800 to ₦5,500 per month, marking a significant rise for creators, students, and small businesses that ...

Behind the Founders and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of fintechs are the Chief Operating Officers (COOs), who drive day-to-day operations. African fintechs have raised over $1 billion in funding ...

The boom’s bloody hangover. Remember when Nigeria’s fintech idans, flush with VC millions, torched cash on zero-fee bonfires to lasso unbanked millions and seize digital payment rails? Opay’s agents ...

Samsung Electronics has unveiled three new foldable smartphones, including a passport-sized Galaxy Z Fold8 with a wider display, while raising prices across its foldable lineup as soaring memory chip ...

Pan-African fintech M-KOPA has reached 10 million customers across Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, marking a milestone that reflects how quickly smartphone financing has become one of ...

Anchor, a global banking and payments platform that enables businesses to integrate financial products into their own systems, has processed over $2.5 billion in transactions since its inception in ...