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Yellow Card CEO and Co-Founder Chris Maurice Named to Stablecoins Most Influential 2026 List. This is Stablecon’s annual list of individuals shaping the global stablecoin ecosystem. The list recognizes leaders across six regions and…
Swedfund invests USD 12 million in Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund II (ARAF II). The investment supports growing food and agriculture companies across Africa that strengthen agricultural value chains. By improving access to markets,…
Airtel Africa’s revenue rose 31.0% to $1.85 billion for the financial year ended June 30, 2026. This was driven by continued growth in mobile services, data usage, and Airtel Money across its markets. The telecom operator said revenue…
Kenya has published the Virtual Asset Service Providers Regulations, 2026, which is a step closer to regulating the country’s digital asset industry. The regulations provide a framework for the implementation of the Virtual Asset Service…
The Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy has published the Draft Kenya Artificial Intelligence and Other Emerging Technologies Policy for public participation. The ministry is inviting feedback from innovators,…
The Mastercard Foundation has unveiled the Africa Higher Education for Transformation (AHEFT) Prize, a new initiative backed by a $500 million commitment over the next decade to recognize African universities delivering lasting…
Kenyan fintech startup WayaWaya has appointed former Chase Bank Kenya executive Raj Singh as a non-executive director and board adviser. He joins at a time when WayaWaya is seeking to deepen its partnerships with banks and merchants and…
Vertiv has announced plans to expand its chiller manufacturing and testing capabilities at its Tognana campus near Padua, Italy. The aim is to meet the growing demand for AI-ready data centre cooling infrastructure. By the end of 2026, the…
By Johan Scheepers, Senior Manager: Solution Architects at Red Hat Sub-Saharan Africa Enterprise CEOs and CIOs are asking their technology teams very valid questions. How are we embracing AI? How can AI enhance our organisation? What is…
TikTok removed 884,591 videos in Kenya during the first quarter of 2026 for breaching its Community Guidelines. That’s what the platform said in its most recent Community Guidelines Enforcement Report. The report shows that 99.7% of the…
LemFi has partnered with BVNK to move its cross-border settlement infrastructure onto regulated stablecoin rails. The partnership enables near-instant settlement behind the scenes while keeping the customer experience unchanged. Users will…
M-KOPA has announced it has surpassed 10 million customers across Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, as demand for its smartphone financing and digital financial services continues to grow. Its “More than a Phone” platform,…
Artificial intelligence is becoming part of everyday life for most people. From mobile banking and fraud detection to healthcare and government services, AI is increasingly shaping how businesses operate and how people interact with…
PawaPay has been named one of the World’s Top Fintech Companies 2026 by CNBC and Statista. The recognition comes after a strong year for the company, during which it processed more than three billion mobile money transactions while…
Zoho says Kenya has become one of its fastest-growing markets after recording 55% year-on-year revenue growth, prompting the company to deepen its investment in the country through a strategic partnership with the Kenya National Chamber of…
A year ago, many of Kenya’s fastest-growing artists barely registered in Spotify’s streaming data among listeners aged 18–24. Today, several are recording hundreds of thousands of monthly streams, while some of the country’s most…
By Larry Cooke, Binance Africa Every few years, a technology the world considered finished gets reinvented somewhere unexpected, and the place that reinvents it stops being a follower and becomes the source. For digital infrastructure,…
By Stella Mambo, Director Global Markets Absa Bank Kenya Africa’s innovation story has often been framed by scarcity, from limited funding and infrastructure to constrained access to capital. Yet these challenges have repeatedly sparked…
Westcon-Comstor has cut its combined Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 42% since 2022, ahead of schedule on its goal of a 50% reduction by 2030, the global technology distributor announced. The company disclosed the progress…
Nairobi-based travel and fintech startup Afrinity has been selected to join FasterCapital’s EquityPilot program. This is a startup support initiative designed to help early-stage companies move from concept to execution. Afrinity is…
By Larry Cooke, Binance Africa Africa is one of the fastest-growing crypto markets in the world, but it is also a continent that struggles to trade with itself. These two facts are rarely connected. They should be, because one could help…
Vertiv has announced the successful modernisation of the cooling infrastructure at NFrance’s sovereign data centre. NFrance is a leading French provider of cloud hosting, colocation, and managed services. The project delivered an…
Safaricom’s Chief Financial Services Officer, Esther Waititu, will leave the company at the end of July, marking another high-profile leadership change within the telecommunications giant’s financial services business. In an internal…
Cassava Technologies has strengthened Africa’s cloud infrastructure after its subsidiary, Africa Data Centres (ADC), was designated a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Metro peering location in Johannesburg, making it the first such location on…
