fintech

From farmers to students, Zim fintech vows to include all

A Zimbabwean fintech start-up, Cashlinq, is set on empowering entrepreneurs across Africa through its “easily accessible” banking platform. Cashlinq, says founder Tendai Mugovi, is…

[Opinion] Financial Services companies in South Africa must be ready for the rise of digital natives

Financial services will be the first industry put to the test with the rise of the Digital Native. As COVID-19 drove the acceleration of technology adoption…

SA fintech start-up powers Soweto’s first lifestyle estate

Through an exclusive partnership with an estate in one of South Africa’s oldest townships, MortgageMarket.co.za has become the latest fintech start-up to steer a…

Fintech boom: African start-ups going from zero to hero

At the end of 2021, Africa saw close to $5 billion invested in tech start-ups. Fintech, especially, has seen one of the largest expansions with $2…

‘One-click API’ Stitch now makes it easier to move money

Payments and data API fintech start-up Stitch has unveiled its latest solution, Stitch Payouts, set to make it easier and faster for businesses to…

Visa opens Innovation Studio in Africa to advance future payment solutions

The global payments company, Visa (Visa Inc), has opened a new Innovation Studio in Nairobi, its first dedicated innovation site in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)….

Egypt fintech, Lucky, raises $25M in Series A

Lucky, the leading app in Egypt for credit products, offers and cashback rewards, has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round. The…

Local AI fintech startup secures $1.6-million investment

Johannesburg-based AI fintech startup, FinChatBot has secured $1.6-million from Saviu Ventures, a French investment holding company that focuses on African startups; Mauritius-based Compass Venture Capital and…

Nigerian fintech startup receives $25 000 in funding

Nigeria-based Venture Capitalist firm, Microtraction has invested $25 000 in Evolve Credit, a loan and financial marketplace aimed at assisting Nigerians to select the…

Nigerian tech startup acquired by US fintech

Nigerian fintech startup, Paystack, has recently been acquired by an American fintech to establish a convenient payment system in Africa. The startup assists with…

New funding platform to help SMEs recover from the pandemic launches [Sponsored]

While the world gets a handle on the Covid-19 pandemic from a medical perspective, we are only just starting to see the long-term effects…

Standard Bank acquires 35% stake in fintech, TradeSafe

Standard Bank has acquired a 35% equity stake in digital escrow company TradeSafe Escrow. The partnership will allow for TradeSafe to target commodity and M&A transactions…

Current environment offers opportunities for digital entrepreneurs to solve new pain points

The current environment offers many opportunities for entrepreneurs in the digital space according to fintech experts, Willem Roos, CEO of Rain (former OUTsurance CEO), and Dominique…

Four key metrics from Carbon’s financials in the past three years

Nigerian fintech startup, Carbon, on Tuesday, released a report detailing its key activities and metrics for 2019. Last year when the startup, Carbon, formerly…

Fintech startups and PCI DSS compliance: what you need to know [Opinion]

With roughly 46% of consumers today using digital channels exclusively for banking, this equates to almost half of the world’s banking customers relying on…

Fintech JUMO secures $55m from new and existing investors [Updated]

UPDATE (3 March 2020): Subsequent to the publication of this story, JUMO told Ventureburn that of the $55-million, $30-million was in equity and $25-million…

How Meerkat’s fintech platform aims to lower debt counselling service for clients [Q&A]

SA fintech startup Meerkat has been selected as one of six startups to take part in US fintech accelerator Catalyst Fund‘s latest cohort. The accelerator…

How SA brothers in their early 20s launched cash-advance fintech after lessons learnt in US

So eager were they to learn how to run a cash-advance business, that SA brothers Maxi, 22 and Sebastian Cohen, 24, started a merchant…

Africa-focused fintech Chipper Cash raises a further $6m

San Francisco based fintech startup Chipper Cash announced yesterday that it had raised a further $6-million, in a seed round led by California-based Deciens…

Nigeria’s Lidya set on being biggest non-bank lender to SMEs with Polish, Czech expansion

Nigerian fintech startup Lidya is on a drive to become the world’s biggest non-bank lender to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the world. “The…

Fintech lender Investmint links small firms looking for funding, with investor

Chris Bruchhausen and Gareth Price are behind one of SA’s latest fintech lenders, Investmint — which links investors with small businesses looking for finance….

Ukheshe, Mindbridge named winners of SA Reserve Bank’s global fintech hackcelerator

The SA Reserve Bank (Sarb) has named SA’s uKheshe and Canada’s MindBridge Analytics the winners of its 2019 Global Fintech Hackcelerator @ Southern Africa…

My-iMali looking to raise R25m to save employers thousands of rands in bank charges

A SA fintech startup wants to save employers thousands of rands in bank charges by getting them to pay their employees through a new…

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