Hello Fintech friends,👋

My name is Jovin Bosco, a Tanzanian tech founder and operator joining TWIF Africa to cover the stories shaping the future of finance across the continent. I spend my time close to the builders, the infrastructure and the everyday realities driving Africa's fintech ecosystem and I am here to bring you those stories every week, from the ground up, no fluff.

Here are the highlights of what happened in African Fintech this week:

  • A small country ranked third in Africa's financial centres.

  • Two money transfer giants secured Nigerian licences this week.

  • Africa's biggest mobile wallet started hiding your phone number.

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💰 Venture Funds

  • Hlayisani Capital launched HVF II with $29.9M anchored by South African pension funds.

  • Windhoek launched Accelerate36, a bet on building Namibia's startup ecosystem by listing founders on the stock exchange..

🚀 Partnerships & Product Launches

  • Vodafone Egypt and Tunisie Telecom announced a cross-border mobile payment partnership.

  • Vodacom Tanzania launched Africa's first mobile money tap-to-pay feature.

  • Safaricom rolled out phone number masking across all M-Pesa transactions.

  • Nigeria's Duplo secured dual licenses to bridge e-invoicing and payments for businesses.

  • NALA and WISE secured IMTO licenses and integrated directly with NIBSS in Nigeria.

👔 Leadership Lineup

  • FairMoney named Gbenga Shobo, ex-First Bank Deputy MD, as Board Chair.

  • Jumoke Adenowo exited Flutterwave's board after a two-year tenure.

📰 News of the Week

  • Rwanda positioned itself as Africa's most serious fintech financial address.

KIFC CEO Hortense Mudenge laid out Rwanda's playbook at IFF 2026. The pitch was simple — fund registration in two days, fintech licensing in thirty, 3% corporate tax, zero withholding tax. The Kenya-Rwanda licence passporting MoU made Pan-African expansion from Kigali a real option.

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📑 Read of the week

  • Selar and Mainstack: A billboard started a war.

🪙 Stablecoin Watch

  • Africa's crypto market matured as fraud rates dropped 28% across the continent.

  • Luno launched crypto prediction markets.

🎥 VIDEO INTERVIEWS/DISCUSSIONS

  • Stone Atwine, founder of Eversend, broke down how he ditched SWIFT and rebuilt African cross-border treasury on stablecoins and why the future of money moves on open rails.

🦉 Tweet of the Week

  • Nala founder and CEO on the IMTO licence in Nigeria

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