| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.06.2026 | Nigeria: Beyond the Glitch - How NIBSS Is Defending Nigeria's Quadrillion Naira Payment Ecosystem | Every modern digital payment ecosystem eventually encounters a difficult truth: no financial infrastructure built by humans is completely immune to technical disruptions.
Across the world's most advanced banking systems, operational outages... |
| 01.08.2025 | Beyond the code: How AI is powering a creative and cultural renaissance across Africa – Gift Edah | Gift Edah is the Founder and Creative Lead at Rayvolution Media, shaping visual storytelling and entertainment technology across Africa.
Gift Edah
In the last decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has evolved from a sci-fi spectacle into a v... |
| 22.07.2025 | Vendy wants to become the go-to payment platform for social commerce in Africa | The rising number of social media users and online shoppers on the continent has fuelled a rise in social commerce. Nigerian startup Vendy joins a growing list of startups looking to become the de facto payment layer for Africa’s social com... |
| 23.06.2025 | Oluwatobi Oladapo recognised for advancing trust-first innovation in fintech | Oluwatobi Oladapo, Head of Product at myCircle Africa, was named Nigeria’s Most Exceptional Fintech Professional of the Year at the 2024 Nigeria Technology Awards (NiTA), in recognition of his work leading the development of culturally grou... |
| 05.06.2025 | How Nigerian founders are de-dollarising their startups | It used to be simple. You built something people wanted, got investments to buy the tools you need and create the team you need to scale exponentially—maybe a few smart hires from abroad. The tech ecosystem was flush with cash and hope for ... |
| 16.04.2025 | How Moniepoint is going after remittances with Monieworld | Moniepoint, the Nigerian fintech unicorn, has launched Monieworld, its remittance product that allows UK residents to send money directly from a Monieworld account, cards, a British bank account or via Apple Pay and Google Pay to any Nigeri... |
| 11.04.2025 | How Nigeria’s tap-to-pay revolution can close the gap with global fintech leaders | By Wilson Adenuga
Contactless payments, often called tap-to-pay, are no longer a luxury; they are the norm in many parts of the world. Whether riding the train in London, grabbing coffee in Tokyo, or buying groceries in Paris, paying is now... |
| 24.03.2025 | “Most African companies don’t need VC” – Launch Africa’s Uwem Uwemakpan | Launch Africa is arguably Africa’s most active early-stage investor. The firm started investing in African startups in 2020, and by the time it had finished deploying its $36.3 million fund, it had invested in 133 startups across 25 countri... |
| 19.02.2025 | The Rise and Fall of Fintech: A Tale of Triumph and Turmoil in Africa | In the vibrant landscape of African fintech, two stories emerge, each revealing the duality of success and struggle. On one hand, we have Oui Capital, a venture capital firm that struck gold with its investment in Moniepoint. On the other, ... |
| 19.02.2025 | Ex-Kuda executive sues over gender discrimination, wrongful termination allegations | A former executive at Kuda, one of Nigeria’s leading fintech startups, has filed a lawsuit at an employment tribunal in the United Kingdom alleging a toxic work culture, gender discrimination, and retaliatory dismissal. Rosemary Hewat, the ... |
| 17.02.2025 | How Oui Capital made a 53x return on an early $150,000 investment in Moniepoint | Three years before Oui Capital, an early-stage African venture capital firm, invested $150,000 for a 1.2% stake in Moniepoint, managing partner Olu Oyinsan met Tosin Eniolorunda, Moniepoint’s CEO, and immediately knew there was something di... |
| 28.12.2024 | The Fintech Surge: Nigeria's Digital Revolution | Nigeria is on fire. The fintech sector is booming, igniting a digital revolution across the nation. This surge is not just a trend; it’s a transformation. With a youthful population and a growing appetite for technology, Nigeria is becoming... |
| 27.12.2024 | Tech Revolution Africa Unveils MTN As Headline Sponsor | Tech Revolution Africa is making waves yet again! In a groundbreaking move, the team has announced MTN, Africa’s leading telecommunications giant, as the Headline Sponsor for its highly anticipated 2025 tech conference coming up on January ... |
| 23.12.2024 | The Rapid Growth of Fintech in Nigeria | In recent years, Nigeria has emerged as a significant player in the global fintech landscape. The country's fintech sector has experienced remarkable growth, driven by a young and tech-savvy population, increasing smartphone penetration, an... |
| 14.12.2024 | Nigeria's Fintech Revolution: A Digital Dawn | Nigeria is riding a wave. The fintech sector is booming, transforming the financial landscape. This growth is not just a trend; it’s a revolution. A young, tech-savvy population is at the helm, steering the country into a digital future. Wi... |
| 13.12.2024 | The rapid growth of fintech in Nigeria | By Andrew Uaboi, VP, Visa West Africa
In recent years, Nigeria has emerged as a significant player in the global fintech landscape.
The country’s fintech sector has experienced remarkable growth, driven by a young and tech-savvy population,... |
| 12.12.2024 | The Rapid Growth of Fintech in Nigeria | In recent years, Nigeria has emerged as a significant player in the global fintech landscape. The country’s fintech sector has experienced remarkable growth, driven by a young and tech-savvy population, increasing smartphone penetration, an... |
| 28.11.2024 | Paystack deepens its pay by account feature with OPay integration | Paystack, the Stripe-owned Nigerian fintech, has integrated a payment option enabling merchants to accept payments directly from millions of OPay accounts. The integration continues Paystack’s strategy of building payment methods on bank tr... |
| 09.09.2024 | Nigeria: FG Imposes Electronic Levy On Opay, Moniepoint Users, Others | Customers of financial technology (fintech) companies including Opay, Moniepoint and Kuda are grumbling over the implementation of the Electronic Money Transfer Levy (EMTL) on their transactions.
The implementation which takes effect today ... |
| 06.08.2024 | Kuda, the Target Global-backed challenger bank, tripled revenue to $22 million in 2022 | Kuda, the Nigeria-focused neobank backed by Target Global, tripled its revenue, according to its latest audited financial statements filed with U.K. regulators where the startup is incorporated. The company’s revenue grew by 190% in 2022, t... |
| 04.09.2022 | Brex’s departing CRO explains his decision to join Founders Fund | Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll ... |
| 02.09.2022 | Nigerian digital bank Kuda is the latest African startup to lay off employees | Kuda, the challenger bank based in Nigeria and the U.K., has joined the ranks of tech companies in Africa that are pruning their workforce.
The news of the layoffs, which was first disclosed to TechCrunch by sources, was confirmed by Kuda v... |
| 15.07.2022 | What you need to know about Kuda’s N50 stamp duty | One unifying problem experienced by commercial bank users in Nigeria is indiscriminate and unexplained bank charges. Attempts to get clarification from their banks for these deductions are usually met with unsatisfactory responses. Little w... |
| 14.03.2022 | Top 10 microfinance banks in Nigeria | --> -->
Information available on the CBN website shows that there are about 916 licensed microfinance banks in Nigeria. These banks provide essential financial services (such as savings, lending, domestic fund transfers, etc.) to low-... |
| 08.12.2021 | Techpoint Awards 2021: And the nominees are… | Share this article:
[Updated on December 15, 2021]: Payourse requested to be removed as a finalist in The Most Outstanding Crypto Exchange category.
[Updated on December 14, 2021]: The Most Outstanding Logistics Startup 2021 was renamed Mos... |
| 18.03.2021 | Kuda raises $25M more led by Valar to become the neobank for ‘every African on the planet’ | Challenger banks continue to make significant advances in attracting customers away from the big incumbents by providing more modern, user-friendly tools to manage their money. Today, one of the trailblazers in this area, Kuda Technologies,... |
