As more industries and consumers embrace mobile money, expanded interoperability and tighter integration with e-commerce platforms will become necessary. The emergence of blockchain similarly offers new perspectives across Africa. Expanding the breadth of mobile...

Financial technology or FinTech has experienced phenomenal growth in the past few years. It refers to technological innovation in the financial sector and includes both back-end and consumer-facing services. The rise of FinTech has given way to new opportunities and...

Embracing Fintech innovation brings about unidentified risks and potential frauds to its financial services sector. Pertinent anti-fraud and cybersecurity measures are to be approached. Partnerships between financial institutions (FI) and FinTech (financial...

Fintechs have helped make financial services available to people that banks have long struggled to reach, but this has come at a price. Financial inclusion is a systemic problem requiring collaboration from multiple stakeholders to gain the expansion of financial...

As digital platforms disrupt and dominate markets to create communities of enormous scale, they deliver compelling customer experiences and offer new forms of innovation and value creation. Africa has been a main attraction for Fintech. Yet, most new platform...