Tag: Financial inclusion

The Central Bank of Nigeria has set an ambitious target to bring an additional 15 million Nigerians, market women, farmers, ...

The Interledger Foundation is working with universities across four continents to teach open payments and train students to build interoperable ...

Bringing structure and record-keeping to a system millions of Nigerians already use to meet daily financial needs, Thrifto is leveraging ...

Sustainability has become a critical priority for businesses and governments across the world, driving growth, innovation, and positive change. As ...

Finlogic has secured an IMTO licence from the CBN, allowing it to process direct diaspora remittances into Nigeria as the ...

These are the fintechs making cross-border payments faster, cheaper, and harder to ignore in 2026

But a skeleton alone does not make a human being. For actual economic inclusion, for SMEs to grow securely and ...

The rebrand comes with two key acquisitions, AjoMoney, a digital group-savings platform, and Zazzau Microfinance Bank, which now operates as ...

The research stresses that over one-third of all venture funding in Africa since 2014 has gone to fintech, now the ...

The competition recognises some of the continent’s most innovative startups in financial technology and other high-impact solutions that address Africa’s ...

65% of Nigeria’s informal businesses earned more in 2025, but only 47% made profit, as inflation and high costs choke ...

The funding aims to strengthen financial inclusion, support small businesses, and enhance household resilience amid economic challenges.

The CBDC, designed to operate within existing financial regulations, is expected to provide faster and more secure settlements while expanding ...

Nigeria’s fintech expansion has reached a point of harmony, between ambition and regulation, innovation and inclusion, policy and people.

The fund, named Accion Venture Lab Fund II, LP, is managed under Accion Impact Management’s venture strategy, now rebranded as ...