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Our “Finance” section features articles on the world of business, finance and fintech in Ghana and Africa
Paystack Wants You to Let an AI Pay for Your Airtime
Nigeria's leading payments company is testing a product that lets ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI agents complete everyday transactions on your behalf — a bet on where commerce is heading.
Paystack Launches Program to Help Nigerian Small Businesses Survive and Scale
The Stripe-owned payments company is offering up to ₦4 million in discounts on business tools — and eventual access to grants — as it deepens its bet on Nigeria's small business economy
Ripple Invests in Flutterwave to Push Stablecoins Into African Payments
The blockchain company's investment in Africa's largest payments firm marks the most concrete move yet to replace correspondent banking with crypto-native settlement infrastructure
Payments Aggregator PawaPay Surpasses Three Billion Transactions
PawaPay's latest milestone signals that mobile money has moved well past novelty — and is now the backbone of everyday commerce across the continent.
Enza Awarded Payments License From Bank of Ghana, Eyeing Summer Launch
The fintech infrastructure firm becomes the latest international player to secure enhanced approval to operate in one of Africa's most closely watched digital payments markets.
Egyptian Fintech Blnk Raises $37 Million to Bring Credit to the Unbanked
Blnk, which offers point-of-sale loans in three minutes with minimal paperwork, has reached over a million customers — most of whom had never had access to formal credit before
Brass Announces Full Transition Into Paystack MFB; Ceases as an Independent Entity
Nigeria's most closely watched fintech rescue story reaches its final chapter — and what it reveals about the limits of startup banking in Africa
Paystack Redesigns Its Online Dashboard With A Cleaner UI and AI Features
Ten years of product debt, a growing merchant base, and the AI moment finally pushed Africa's most prominent payments company to rebuild from scratch
Softbank-Backed OPay Prepares for IPO; Hires Citigroup, JPMorgan, and Deutsche Bank
By enlisting Citigroup, JPMorgan, and Deutsche Bank, OPay is signaling to the market that it is ready for the scrutiny of the Sarbanes-Oxley era. The choice of these three specific firms is a calculated 'triangulation' of global finance
Yuno and Flutterwave Partner To Help Global Merchants Expand To African Markets
A San Francisco fintech and Africa's payments giant have joined forces to give global merchants a single key to one of the world's most complex — and most promising — digital economies