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Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Act Adds 1% Tax on Remittances
Starting January 1, 2026, people sending cash remittances abroad from the U.S. will be hit with a 1%…
PAPSS Launches Continent-Wide Currency Exchange Marketplace to Boost Intra-African Trade
On the sidelines of the Afreximbank Annual Meeting (AAM2025) in Abuja, the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS),…
UNICEF Startup Lab Welcomes 25 Startup Ventures For Its 2025 Cohort
Accra, Ghana – 7th July 2025 – 25 social impact tech-enabled startups were welcomed into the 5th cohort…
Onafriq Announces Intra-Trade Partnership with PAPSS
Onafriq, a Pan Africa payments company, has partnered with the Pan-African Payments Settlement System (PAPSS) to help with…
Ghana’s New SIM Registration Overhaul Underway With Startup Bill Expected to Pass By End of 2025
Ghana is doubling down on its digital transformation with a sweeping overhaul of its SIM card registration system…
Ghana Pushes Deadline of 5G Rollout to Q4 2025
Ghana’s much-anticipated 5G rollout has been delayed again — now expected by the end of Q4 2025. This…
Nigerian Open Banking Startup Okra Quietly Shut Down In May 2025
Okra, once Nigeria’s best-known open-banking startup, quietly shut down all operations, including Nebula, the cloud-services spin-off it recently…
Flutterwave Cuts Half of Kenya, South Africa Staff Amid Profit Push, IPO Plans
African fintech unicorn Flutterwave has laid off half of its staff in Kenya and South Africa as it…
Okra Co-Founder Fara Ashiru Joins UK’s Kernel
Fara Ashiru, co-founder and CEO of Nigeria’s open-finance startup Okra, has joined UK-based Kernel as Head of Engineering.…
South African Fintech Lesaka Acquires Bank Zero for $61.4M
Lesaka Technologies is doubling down on South Africa’s fintech boom, agreeing to acquire Johannesburg-based neobank Bank Zero for…