Browsing: Fintech and payments

On the TechCentral Show: Optasia’s Salvador Anglada on algorithms, Nigeria and lending without collateral.

Airtel Money’s London listing will give investors a first clean benchmark for valuing African mobile money platforms.

Hours after news of the Pepkor merger, Shop2Shop CEO Peter Berry has predicted cash will vanish from the townships.

Flash and Shop2Shop will combine to form a R21.3-billion platform Pepkor plans to list separately.

Mastercard says trust, not cost, will decide who wins payments as stablecoins and AI agents advance.

Three of South Africa’s biggest banks have quietly joined the Visa- and Stripe-backed Open USD stablecoin project.

A Zwide forecourt shows how townships cluster real economic activity around formal infrastructure.

Stripe and private equity firm Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal Holdings, according to sources.

360Wallet owner has claimed that South Africa’s biggest banks are blocking its cardless cash withdrawal technology.

Payments giant Visa has detailed how AI agents, richer tokens and blockchain settlement will reshape commerce.