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Luno

https://www.luno.com/
Last activity: 09.09.2026
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Luno is a leading global cryptocurrency company with customers in 40 countries and a team of over 350. We’re headquartered in London, with regional hubs in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Cape Town.

Our products and services make it safe and easy to buy, store and learn about cryptocurrencies. Luno’s vision is to upgrade the world to a better financial system.
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Location: Nigeria
Employees: 501-1000
Total raised: $9M
Founded date: 2013

Investors 2

Funding Rounds 1

DateSeriesAmountInvestors
19.09.2017Series B$9M-

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09.09.2026Coalition leads public revolt against treasury’s crypto draftSouth Africa’s biggest regulated crypto platforms have taken their fight public, forming a coalition and launching a petition against draft rules that would bar local companies from making cross-border payments in crypto assets. The coaliti...
09.09.2026Reserve Bank says its approach to stablecoins is not settledThe South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) says its approach to stablecoins has not been settled, in its first response to the public campaign launched on Wednesday, 9 September by South Africa’s largest regulated crypto platforms against its pr...
04.08.2026VALR hits back at proposed cross-border crypto banVALR CEO Farzam Ehsani Barring South African companies from moving crypto assets across the country’s borders will likely drive those transactions underground or offshore and reduce the very oversight national treasury and the South African...
03.08.2026SA companies could face cross-border crypto banSouth African companies would be barred from moving crypto assets across the country’s borders in either direction under a draft framework released for public comment on Monday by national treasury and the South African Reserve Bank. The pr...
21.05.2026Two telcos, $1-trillion and two very different fintech betsMTN Group and Vodacom Group between them processed just over US$1-trillion in mobile money transactions across their most recent financial years – a milestone for Africa’s two largest telco-led fintech businesses, even as the JSE-listed ope...
27.04.2026South Africa’s crypto progress on the lineSouth Africa is rewriting its exchange-control rulebook for the first time in more than 60 years – and the country’s crypto industry fears the new regime will set it back, not move it forward. National treasury’s draft Capital Flow Manageme...
25.02.2026Treasury moves to bring crypto under exchange-control rulesSouth Africa is tightening the regulatory net around crypto – this time targeting cross-border capital flows. In an effort to safeguard the financial system while encouraging legitimate investment and capital inflows, national treasury will...
03.02.2026Heavyweights backing ZARU, a new rand-based stablecoinA partnership between four South African financial institutions has led to the launch of an “institutional-grade” stablecoin pegged to the rand. Dubbed ZAR Universal, or ZARU, the stablecoin will made available to both retail consumers and ...
02.02.2026Crypto has gone mainstream – will South African regulators catch up in 2026?The author, Luno’s Marius Reitz By the end of 2025, it had become clear, even to the most hardened sceptics, that digital assets, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology were no longer on the fringe of the traditional finance system but ...
21.01.2026An inflection point for crypto in South AfricaBinance South Africa’s Hannes Wessels Regulatory advances in 2025 have laid the foundation for the growth of cryptocurrencies, with their use in domestic payments and cross-border remittances expected to surge this year. “Last year marked a...
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