Central bank launches NimbaPay, Guinea’s instant payment system...
Guinea’s central bank has launched NimbaPay, a national instant payment system. The initiative signa...
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AI Video Agents in African Mobile Banking: The Literacy Gap Fix That Could Unlock the Next 100M Users
Fintech & Digital Banking More than $2 trillion flowed through mobile money wallets globally in 2025, doubling from the first trillion in just four years. Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa combined accounted for 1.2 billion registered mobile money accounts, more than half of the global total of 2.3 billion, with 347 million active 30-day accounts […]
Airtel x Starlink Direct-to-Cell: What the Partnership Means for Rural Financial Inclusion Across 14 African Markets
Fintech & Digital Banking In December 2025, Airtel Africa signed an agreement with SpaceX to deploy Starlink Direct-to-Cell technology across all 14 of its African markets. The service will allow Airtel customers with compatible smartphones to access mobile connectivity in areas without terrestrial coverage. The rollout is planned for 2026, starting with messaging and data […]
Agritech Funding Recovery Signals. Why 2026 Marks the Tentative Return to Agriculture Investment After 2025’s $39M Decline
ASINT / Fintech & Digital Banking In January 2026, African agritech startups collectively raised $200,000. The number is not a typo. In a month where African startups overall raised $214 million, the agriculture technology sector attracted virtually nothing. Then February happened. Egypt’s Breadfast closed a $50 million round. Ethiopia’s Lovegrass secured $5 million. Monthly agritech […]
Video Agents and AI-Powered Lending: How African Fintechs Are Reaching Low-Literacy and Multilingual Markets
The Interface Problem That Payments Did Not Solve Africa’s first wave of fintech built payment infrastructure at scale. It got money moving. What it did not resolve is the interface layer: most digital financial products are built for literate, English-speaking users navigating structured menus on reliable internet connections. That describes a minority of the continent’s […]
Stablecoins in African Cross-Border Payments: Strategic Tool or Structural Mirage
The Adoption Numbers Are Real Africa leads the world in stablecoin ownership among crypto-active users at 79%, according to BVNK’s Stablecoin Utility Report 2026, outpacing other emerging markets at around 60% and high-income economies at roughly 45%. Stablecoins now account for approximately 43% of all crypto transaction volume in Sub-Saharan Africa. Nigeria alone accounts for […]
Mono, Flutterwave, and a Banking Licence: Reading Nigeria’s Fintech Consolidation
The Deal and What It Actually Was On January 5, 2026, Flutterwave announced the acquisition of Mono, Nigeria’s leading open banking infrastructure provider, in an all-stock deal valued between $25 million and $40 million. The transaction had been completed in December 2025. Mono, founded in 2020 and Y Combinator-backed, had built APIs allowing businesses to […]
