The U.S. government’s decision to ban TikTok, the immensely popular short-form video app owned by China’s ByteDance, has sent shockwaves through the tech industry,…
Africa Investment Forum draws $31bn. in investor interest
Africa’s premier investment platform known as the Africa Investment Forum Market Days has drawn $31 billion in investment interest from African and global investors….
Stellantis investment gives birth to used vehicle start-up
Stellantis, a leading global automaker and mobility provider, has invested in Africar Group to create Auto24, an African used-vehicle start-up. Auto24 is billed as…
Meet the disrupters and pioneers in SA credit industry
In South Africa, lower-income consumers and thousands of vendors were for years barred from accessing the formal credit sector due to a lack of…
AGF, responsAbility partner to boost agri-SME financing
The African Guarantee Fund (AGF) has partnered with an investment vehicle managed by responsAbility Investments AG (responsAbility) through a $5-million loan portfolio guarantee facility…
R400 million to assist SMEs in agro-processing
A recently-launched fund is offering qualifying small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the agro-processing and manufacturing sectors access to much needed debt funding. The South…
Embrace cryptocurrency, but understand the risks
With South Africa officially recognising cryptocurrency assets as financial products as announced last week, the possible risks attached to them remain. It has now…
Yellow Card receives first-ever African crypto license
Yellow Card has become the first cryptocurrency company in Africa to be granted a virtual asset service provider license to operate in Botswana. The…
Stitch, Peach Payments launch instant EFT checkouts
South Africa-based digital payments gateway Peach Payments and API fintech Stitch have partnered to enable online merchants across the country to accept secure, low-cost…
What start-ups think about ESG and why it matters
Even though start-ups are viewed as giants of the future, they have largely been left out of the conversation when it comes to environmental,…
Circular economy: Social enterprises grow revenue, impact
Businesses that change the world see more than just revenue increase, writes Anton Ressel, Fetola’s strategic head for SME support. South Africa is seeing…
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