Cauris Finance Secures $40 Million in Funding
December 16, 2024
Cauris Finance has announced the close of a $40 million debt facility with a U.S.-based institutional investor. This facility will enable Cauris to expand its efforts to support socially impactful African fintechs that provide essential…
Blink Takes Top Prize at TBD Hackathon
December 16, 2024
Block, the global technology company with a focus on financial services, has announced the winners of the highly anticipated TBD Hackathon, a competition designed to foster innovation, creativity, and technological advancements in payments across Africa. The grand…
LG Unveils Festive Season Discounts on Premium Electronics
December 13, 2024
LG has today announced a month-long End-of-Year discounts bonanza that will see customers buy market-leading products at discounted prices. The campaign, which runs until January 2025, has reduced the prices of key household electronics and…
TransUnion Analysis Reveals Digital Fraud Trends During Black Friday 2024
December 13, 2024
As millions of consumers worldwide took advantage of deals offered between 28 November (US Thanksgiving) and 2 December (Cyber Monday) – a time broadly known as ‘Black Friday’ across Africa – a new analysis from TransUnion…
Tecno Introduces EVS Dynamic Shot and Dual Prism Telephoto
December 13, 2024
Tecno unveiled its three latest innovative breakthroughs: an all-new imaging matrix and two advanced imaging technologies. The innovative Tecno Image Matrix (TIM) is a new AI imaging “brain” that restructures and optimizes power to enhance…
VFS Global Celebrates Landmark 300M Applications
December 12, 2024
VFS Global has crossed the 300 million applications milestone. It is notable that the last 100 million applications have been achieved in the past 5 years despite the pandemic-driven travel slow-down of 2020-2022. In 2023…
Supermicro Appoints Exclusive Networks Africa as Distributor
December 12, 2024
Supermicro has appointed Exclusive Networks Africa as a distributor for the African region. This partnership is aimed at expanding Supermicro’s footprint across the continent, leveraging Exclusive Networks Africa’s extensive regional presence to meet growing market…
Binance and Circle Partner to Expand Stablecoin Adoption
December 12, 2024
Circle Internet Group and Binance have joined forces in a new strategic partnership announced at Abu Dhabi Finance Week that will expand adoption of USDC and support the development of the global digital assets and…
You Can Now Sign Up for Safaricom's Ziidi Money Market Fund
December 11, 2024
A few weeks back, we informed you about Safaricom’s new Money Market Fund (MMF), Ziidi. At that time, the fund had just been approved by the Capital Markets Authority (CMA). The regulator said Ziidi Money…