Africa is showing how digital assets work

This year, the digital asset industry will no longer be divided by ideology, but by execution. By Lasbery Chioma Oludimu: vice-president of global operations and MD of Yellow Card Nigeria The question will not be whether digital assets belong in the financial system,...

Hayo launches voice, messaging and digital solutions in Rwanda

Hayo has expanded its presence across East Africa by launching voice, messaging and digital solutions in Rwanda. Local service providers, enterprises and government entities will benefit from access to a portfolio of services designed to support digital and economic...

The bottleneck slowing Africa’s fintech momentum

African fintech has firmly established itself as a global leader, backed by both capital flows and market fundamentals. In 2025, tech startups across the continent attracted around $4,1-billion in combined equity and debt, with the fintech segment still the largest...

What Africa’s stablecoin boom means for its financial system

Back in 2014, two blockchain pioneers set out to solve a problem confronting the early cryptocurrency ecosystem: the extreme price volatility of Bitcoin and the first generation of altcoins made them difficult to use for everyday transactions and impractical as a...