Nigeria Crypto: the signature is the easy part
The executive order is real. But the deadline it set — five agencies producing a unified framework in 30 days — has now passed.
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Mon, Jul 20
Open USD: South Africa's big banks just bet on money without humans
FNB, Absa and Nedbank joining a 140-company consortium — alongside Visa, Mastercard and BlackRock — to build a dollar stablecoin designed for AI agents to pay each other automatically isn't a crypto story. It's a bet on what commerce looks…
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Creation Capital has launched a $183 million hybrid private credit fund listed on the Cape Town Stock Exchange, introducing a notable new capital-markets structure to South Africa's investment landscape. The fund represents a significant private credit instrument in a market still developing alternatives to traditional bank lending.
Access Holdings has sold a 7.44 percent stake in its Ghanaian banking subsidiary, a divestment driven by the Central Bank of Nigeria's foreign-subsidiary ownership cap. The transaction is a cross-border regulatory compliance signal for Nigerian banks with pan-African operations.
Knife Capital and FAM Investments confirmed as co-leads of $5M round, adding co-investor detail to the previously reported raise
Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission has set a target of near-zero trade settlement failures under a T+1 settlement regime to be pursued in the second half of 2026. The commitment marks a concrete capital-markets infrastructure milestone for Nigeria's equities market.
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