The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of financial technology worldwide, including in many African countries, but it also ...

Nearly 69% of biometric fraud targeting African fintechs now involves AI tools. Criminal networks are shifting attacks from account creation to account access. Experts warn rising fraud could threaten ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. This is an excerpt from the Future of Embedded Finance in ...

(RTTNews) - Moniepoint Inc., a Nigerian business payments and banking platform, has secured an investment from Visa Inc. (V), a global digital payments leader. This partnership highlights Visa's ...

MEXC, a leading Africa crypto company has highlighted its moves to drive next wave of financial inclusion in Africa with ongoing crypto revolution. The crypto firm is helping people unlock new ...

Policymakers, central bank governors, senior executives of banks and insurance companies, fintech champions, capital market operators… In Casablanca, the Africa Financial Summit* (December 9 and 10) ...

Africa’s financial systems are in the midst of a renaissance. Access to banking varies widely across the continent. According to 2021 World Bank data from 28 countries, only 34.5% of the population ...

At CNN’s Global Perspectives event, MTN Group Fintech set out how its mobile platform is unlocking financial inclusion in Africa. Africa runs on cash. Over 65% of people in Sub-Saharan Africa are ...

Supporting small and medium-sized firms is key to every single African market, regardless of how diverse they are political, cultural and economically. In South Africa alone, SMEs represent an ...

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Sub-Saharan Africa has shown significant growth in financial inclusion over the past decade, much of it driven by mobile money account adoption. The region continues to work on promoting more overall ...

This note is one of a series on financial inclusion in Africa. 1 It examines the state of financial account ownership and use in the continent’s five economic regions: Central Africa, East Africa, ...