HabariPay: the bank that became your fintech's landlord
HabariPay built its own switch — the infrastructure that routes money between accounts — and quietly connected 12 to 13 Nigerian banks and major fintech companies to it.
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OnePurze: launching in 20 countries on a partner's licence is not the same as operating in 20 countries
OnePurze's 20-country rollout looks bold on a launch flyer. But the source material reveals a specific structural gap: for its five West African BCEAO-zone markets — Senegal, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Benin — OnePurze admits it has no…
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Agent Networks: success built the exit ramp
The agents who built Kenya's financial inclusion story are now being displaced by the very behaviour they trained.
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CBN Localisation: moving the server is the easy part
Dr Rakiya Yusuf's question at last week's TechCabal brunch cuts to the bone: if a bank moves its primary database to Nigeria but keeps its backup offshore, has anything actually changed?
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Odyssey: the $74 million went to the plumbing, not the pipes
Equipment costs eat 60–70% of any solar project's budget. That's the number that explains why thousands of African solar installers, staring at genuine customer demand, simply can't scale — traditional lenders won't finance gear before…
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Absa Crypto Custody: the licence that makes institutions feel safe enough to actually move
The barrier stopping most African asset managers and pension funds from touching digital assets has never really been belief — it's been the absence of somewhere safe and regulated to put them.
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