Local lenders have gone from building everything in-house to buying the start-ups that outran them.
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Airtel Money’s London listing will give investors a first clean benchmark for valuing African mobile money platforms.
Mastercard says trust, not cost, will decide who wins payments as stablecoins and AI agents advance.
Big e-commerce brands are largely absent from Africa – but intermediaries are bringing their goods to shoppers anyway.
Payments giant Mastercard is selling security alongside transactions, with South Africa and Nigeria first in line.
Visa is enrolling local banks for autonomous AI payments, but most consumers still don’t trust AI agents with their money.
Identity, credit scoring and liability all assume a human customer – an assumption agentic AI is breaking.
Mastercard is buying stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8-billion as it pushes into blockchain payments.
A new app called We Need Milk wants to cure “basket blindness” by showing shoppers the true cost of their groceries.
The Globba platform lets customers send instant, affordable cross-border payments to 120 destinations.