The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.
Wed, Aug 5
Standard Chartered and Sony didn't back Yellow Card because stablecoins are interesting. They backed it because the company already proved the model — $10 billion in transactions, 22 licences, 20-plus African countries — and now they want…
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PalmPay picking Hong Kong over New York or London isn't just a routing decision — it's an admission about where the real appetite for African fintech lives right now.
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A software error inside Nigeria's Inter-Bank Settlement System credited 176 people with money that was never actually sent from anywhere — no account was debited, the funds were conjured by a bug. Most recipients did what anyone would do:…
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The headline is a delay. The detail is more instructive.
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40% of Nigerian formal firms now use AI — matching the United States, according to the World Bank. That number is genuinely striking.
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Canal+ completed its acquisition of MultiChoice — Africa's dominant pay-TV group — in 2025. Now it's backing the payments startup that MultiChoice built to collect its own subscriber fees.
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Nigeria has secured financing commitments from the World Bank, the African Development Bank and others — $1.6 billion in total — for a fibre project whose implementing company does not legally exist yet.
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