Fintech

Eversend, a leading African fintech that allows customers to pay, spend, and send money across borders, is proud to announce the Europe-to-Africa transfers that transform cross-border money transfers. Eversend users can now instantly send money from Europe to Africa, opening up new opportunities for affordable... Read More

Since its launch on November 29th 2022, clinicPesa has been transforming the healthcare landscape in Uganda, providing a lifeline to thousands of individuals who previously struggled to access affordable and timely medical services. clinicPesa is a digital platform for managing medical expense savings, micro-loans and... Read More

In the ever-evolving digital landscape, virtual debit cards have emerged as a convenient alternative for online transactions. If you are in Africa, there are a bunch of Fintech Startups giving you the ability to create and use one. We have extensively covered the benefits and... Read More

Kuda has joined Nigeria's long list of financial service providers (Chipper cash, Bamboo, Chaka, Trove, Rise, etc.) that allows its users to trade foreign stocks. Kuda prides itself as the 'Bank of the free', so it is not surprising that stock trading is joining the... Read More

With the rise of many Fintech applications and innovations, there are easy and convenient ways of collectively raising funds. Here's an example. Imagine you own an e-commerce website or a charity organization or you are hosting a social event and you expect donations from different... Read More

The growth of the use of mobile banking services in Kenya has transformed the Kenyan credit industry. We now have very many apps you can borrow loans from in Kenya. This has happened as people abandon banks and other traditional credit facilities such as SACCOs... Read More

Last Friday, HiPipo held the grand finale summit at Mestil to celebrate the winners of this year's Women In FinTech Hackathon. Out of the 20 shortlisted teams, only six got to share a prize pool of $10,000 (sh38m) to further develop and implement their ideas.... Read More

The FinTech industry has made slow but steady progress in increasing the number of startups founded by women. HiPipo, together with other partners has prepared another epic hackathon for female innovators, developers, techpreneurs to leverage this chance to bring their ideas to life. In 2021,... Read More

NFTs have the power to shape the future of ownership in just about every area of our lives, and they're becoming impossible to ignore. In this article, let's see how we could have digital identities in what we call SBTs which are coming after NFTs. At the... Read More