Lipaworld to launch stablecoin payment card

The successful launch comes within the third wave of the Central Bank of Egypt granting tokenisation licenses to select banks and is a key milestone for Egypt's digital payment ecosystem.

The National Bank of Ethiopia has warned against the increasing usage of the Birr in peer-to-peer transactions on various trading platforms.

The alliance enables Ethiopians to access enhanced AI creation tools and make payments directly through M-PESA.

This milestone represents a significant step in AXIAN’s fintech strategy and forms part of the group’s broader pan-African ambition to design and scale secure, interoperable and universally accessible digital financial solutions.

Builders on the Lisk network can now leverage Quidax’s digital asset infrastructure to access stablecoins and local currencies at competitive rates.

New regulations have become essential as a result of the country's increasing use of digital assets for remittances and as a hedge against the Ghanaian cedi's volatility.

Binance and Africell intend to collaborate on blockchain education, crypto literacy, and digital asset services across in Africa.

Bateleur and IMTF will address key trends in financial crime and global best practice in compliance at the forum in Johannesburg next month.

Africa’s telecom giant pairs digital finance acquisitions with infrastructure scale to build an integrated platform ecosystem.

The parliament noted that while mobile money has positively transformed the economy, fraudulent behaviour undermines this progress and puts businesses and consumers at risk.

This evolution is already driving more institutional participation and long-term investment, but it also raises the standards for compliance, governance, and consumer safeguards.

The new service particularly targets  small businesses, enabling them to have a cost-effective way to reach customers and suppliers across the border.