Banking & Payments

Cryptocurrencies (spearheaded by the Bitcoin) was introduced over a decade ago, and has consistently continued to see increased adoption all over the world ever since. Even with this widespread adoption, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies continue to see resistances from authorities in some countries around the... Read More

Safaricom's M-PESA is almost synonymous with Mobile Money in Kenya and across some African countries. M-PESA boasts of a monopolistic 99% share of the Kenyan Mobile money scene, leaving competitors like Airtel Money and T-Kash and their features for dead. To maintain this kind of... Read More

Buying and selling stocks on the U.S stock market from Nigeria is now a very easy thing to do. All that is required is a smartphone, internet, and the right amount of money to get started. It wasn't always that easy. In the past, buying... Read More

In the midst of a tough year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the internet culture and controversial tech-like digital currencies are finally getting an audience and seeing a market boom. Today, Facebook-owned platform, WhatsApp Inc is bringing one of the most-requested features of... Read More

Mobile money and digital technology have created a whole range of new opportunities for customers and businesses. However, there's a flip side to these innovations as well —the darker side. You see, the criminal underworld/fraudsters have also benefitted from the explosion of digital tech and... Read More

When you talk about savings and investments in Nigeria, Cowrywise is currently a leading startup in that vertical. Launched in 2016, the platform has racked up hundreds of thousands of users over time. This is including over 100,000 app downloads on the Google Play Store... Read More

It is no longer a hustle in the world today for one to send and receive money from wherever they are. Various FinTechs and institutions have built channels through which cross-border money exchange is a possibility and one of these is the NovoFX app. A... Read More

There are many people who subscribe to the school of thought that Bitcoin may be the foundation of a global financial system. Most of them will also acknowledge that the biggest issue that has been standing in the way of that is scalability. For instance,... Read More

If you don't already know Paystack, it is a Fintech startup and payment processing company based in Lagos that lets businesses and individuals accept payments via credit card, debit card, USSD, money transfer, and mobile money on their websites or mobile apps. In late April,... Read More