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This Week in Fintech

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

• M-Pesa partnered with a stablecoin infrastructure provider to bring payments on-chain.
• Africa’s Unicorn Turned Cash-Flow Positive.
• Africa’s most valuable startup continued to double down on stablecoins.
• Nigerian fintech acquired a company to bring brokerage services in-house.

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💸Fundraise and Exits

• Nigerian fintech Trove Finance acquired UCML Securities Limited.
• MyCredit raised $3 Million to expand SME Financing in Kenya.

💰 Venture Funds

• Nigeria posted the lowest funding share among Africa’s big four as startups raise $3.8 Billion in 2025.

🚀 Partnerships & Product Launches.

• Finlogic received an International Money Transfer Operator (IMTO) licence from the Central Bank of Nigeria.
• Quidax discontinued its peer-to-peer (P2P) trading feature five months after introducing the service.

👔 Leadership Lineup

• Chipper Cash CEO announced company’s first-ever quarter of positive cash flow.

📰 News of the Week

• ADI Foundation Partnered with M-Pesa to Bring 60 Million Mobile Money Platform Users Onchain.

The partnership will connect M-Pesa's user base across Kenya, DR Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Mozambique, and Tanzania with institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure. 

👀 Eye Openers

• “The lack of a clearer winner in African fintech”

📑 Read of the week

• Flutterwave Goes From A Butterfly to A Rocket: Going public in the next 24 months. (Cofounders notebook)

📖 Other News, Reads, and Media

• Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Activity in Africa Surged 72% in 2025.

🪙 Stablecoin Watch

• OneDosh raised $3 Million Pre-Seed to build the Global Stablecoin Payment Rails.
• Flutterwave launched stablecoin balances through Turnkey and Nuvion partnership.
• Nigeria made $276 Million taxing digital payments and now plans for crypto payments tax.

🎥 VIDEO INTERVIEWS/DISCUSSIONS

• Interview with Bente Krogman on how she started insurtech platform, m-Tek and sold it to Bolttech.

🦉 Tweet of the Week

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