Across Africa’s fintech landscape, innovation often emerges where financial systems face structural limitations. Burkina Faso is one such example. At first glance, the country may not appear an obvious fintech destination. Burkina Faso remains a developing economy facing security challenges and infrastructure constraints that have slowed the growth of several sectors. Yet beneath these challenges, […]
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Payments provider Payaza is rewriting the playbook for African fintech by bypasssing traditional aggregators to secure direct structural advantages. As the only Visa-certified processor headquartered in Sub-Saharan Africa, the company has moved beyond the standard fintech model of layering services through third-party global intermediaries. Seyi Ebenezer, founder and CEO of Payaza Seyi Ebenezer, founder and […]
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Wise, the global technology firm focused on international money movement, has appointed Scott Hill to its board as an independent non-executive director. Hill brings decades of high-level experience leading and serving on the boards of major global technology and consumer businesses. Scott Hill, board member and non-executive director at Wise Hill’s extensive background includes a […]
Explore MoreIn a pioneering collaboration, payment processing specialist Littlepay has joined forces with Google and the Go-Ahead Group to introduce a new alternative to physical transit passes. Passengers travelling on Go-Ahead’s Brighton & Hove Buses can now purchase and utilise prepaid travel passes directly within their Google Wallet interface. The system operates much like standard pay-as-you-go […]
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Giving evidence to the House of Lords, Adam Jackson, chief strategy officer at Innovate Finance, outlined the critical growth opportunities and severe risks currently facing the UK stablecoin sector. In its formal submission, the industry body warned that under the current regulatory proposals put forward by the Bank of England, the UK will completely fail […]
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Fintech ecosystems rarely emerge overnight. More often, they develop gradually – through a combination of regulatory experimentation, digital infrastructure expansion and the steady rise of entrepreneurial innovation. Botswana’s fintech sector reflects precisely this type of trajectory. For much of the past two decades, Botswana’s financial system has been characterized by stability and strong institutional governance. […]
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International investors are now allocating funds to emerging market (EM) assets at the fastest pace seen in years. The primary drivers behind this major financial momentum are a weaker United States dollar alongside a growing desire among global investors to diversify their portfolios away from the US market. Unsurprisingly, this broad shift has caused emerging […]
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Despite the rapid global rise of real-time account-to-account transfers, traditional cards continue to heavily dominate the commerce landscape. Fuelled by the widespread adoption of contactless technology, persistent e-commerce growth, and the ongoing digitisation of business-to-business transactions, global card transactions totalled 776 billion in 2024. According to the Nilson Report, this figure is projected to reach […]
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ANNA Money, the AI-powered business account and tax app, has officially been approved by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) as a certified software provider for Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax. The newly granted approval enables the fintech’s customers to submit their required quarterly tax filings directly to HMRC through ANNA’s intuitive and automated […]
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The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) has formed a strategic partnership with FinTech West aimed at drawing on specialist industry expertise to create stronger graduate pathways. Driven by UWE Bristol’s Business School, the newly formalised partnership follows several years of close collaboration between the two organisations. It is fundamentally built around enhancing […]
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