Africa

Mhoroi Fintech Friends 👋🏽, (That's one way to say hello in Shona.) Here are this week’s Africa Fintech highlights: * Two fintech deals were announced for ~$15M in disclosed equity funding. * McKinsey followed up last week’s must-read Fintech in Africa report with a new report on the Future of Payments

Selam Fintech Friends 👋🏽, (That's one way to say hello in Amharic.) Apologies for the delay with this week’s TWIF Africa newsletter. That said, here are the week’s Africa Fintech highlights: * It was an interesting week for fintech funding on the continent with four deals announced for $13.3M

Sanibonani Fintech Friends 👋🏽, (That's one way to say hello in Zulu.) Here are this week’s Africa Fintech highlights: * It was a relatively slow fundraising week: just three relevant deals were announced for ~$7.4M in disclosed funding. * Binance was quite active across the continent: the crypto exchange launched local

Editor’s Note After a long hiatus, we're back with a new edition of This Week in Fintech - Africa, written in Lagos, Nigeria, by Emeka Ajene, an Africa Tech expert with nearly a decade of diverse on-the-ground experience across the African startup ecosystem as a founder, operator, board advisor,

Hey! Welcome to the fourth Africa edition of This Week In Fintech. In this episode, I’ll share my: * Tweets of the week  * Stat of the week * Market updates in Africa  * Funding activity on the continent * More from Fintech in Africa (non-funding related) Tweet of the week Pitching fintech solutions

Hey! Welcome to the third Africa edition of This Week In Fintech. In this episode, I’ll share my: * Tweet of the week  * Stat of the week * Market updates in Africa  * Funding activity on the continent * More news from Africa (non-funding related) Tweet of the week Meet 2/22 Ventures