Real-time payments to shore up Africa's top economies

The course seeks to provide users with the financial knowledge required to navigate personal finance tools and improve their overall financial well-being.

Safaricom merchants will now have access to and provide a greater choice of payment options by leveraging Visa's payment technology.

Zone Payment Network has partnered with NIBSS to integrate blockchain into POS transactions.

Uruguay-born payments provider dLocal has signed a money remittance partnership arrangement with Kenya Commercial Bank.

This collaboration aims to boost financial inclusion in the region by granting access to prepaid Visa cards in a number of markets.

The Ounje Eko food discount initiative is designed to counter surging inflation in Nigeria and uses PalmPay’s QRcode-based payment systems.

Cellulant and Google stated that the move aims to boost usage and downloads in a market where international card usage is limited.

The Group announced it has a healthy, debt-free balance sheet, with about R500 million cash reserves to fund organic growth, and acquisition prospects.

Stitch is primarily focused on enterprise payments solutions in South Africa, but it sees chances to grow into the rest of the African continent.

Capital Appreciation has completed the $7 million acquisition of Dariel Solutions Proprietary Limited.

Fintech group to acquire 100% of Dariel Software Solutions for a total consideration of $7.2 million (R131.2 million).