At launch, users can participate in markets across sports, crypto, culture, politics, and economics, with additional categories expected over time L-R: Titilayo Ogunleye, Head, Legal & Compliance, ...

For fifteen years, Bitcoin’s core promise sold itself in five words: not your keys, not your coins. Hold your own hardware wallet, and no exchange collapse, no bank freeze, and no government seizure ...

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 ...

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 ...

Renowned Nigerian tech and business influencers: Tunde Onakoya, National Chess Master & Founder of CISA; Akintunde Sultan, Co-founder of AltSchool Africa; and Samuel Otigba, founder of Jobs 59, have ...

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 ...

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 ...

The European Union and the Government of Denmark have committed an additional €11 million to Nigeria’s 3 Million Technical Talent (3MTT) programme. The funding was announced on Thursday, March 26, ...

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 ...

Tayo Oviosu, the founder of Nigerian fintech company Paga Group, is stepping back from running the company’s daily operations to focus entirely on its next chapter: new markets, stablecoins, ...

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 ...

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 ...