The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.
Sat, Aug 8
Visa, Western Union, and now Standard Chartered and Sony are all plugging into Yellow Card's infrastructure. That's remarkable. But read the CEO's own words: the pitch is explicitly that businesses can "move money without traditional…
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Airtel Kenya's original licence expired in 2015. What followed was a decade of stopgap arrangements — inherited rights from an acquisition, an out-of-court settlement, a temporary extension — while the company tried to plan a future it…
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Global firms lining up to apply is genuinely encouraging. But applications aren't licences.
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The investor lineup is genuinely interesting — AlphaCode leading, General Catalyst returning, Canal+ coming in fresh. But as I wrote earlier this week, Canal+ is essentially investing in the billing layer its own pay-TV business already…
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ZARU, described as the first institutional rand-backed stablecoin, has listed on Luno Global, marking a milestone for South African crypto-finance infrastructure. The listing places the rand on a regulated exchange platform for the first time in tokenised form.
Country-level data confirms Nigeria's share of Africa's July startup funding collapsed 96%, sharpening the investor drought signal within the continent-wide equity funding decline.
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