RealPay at Ripple Swell Event

Rea

RealPay at Ripple Swell 2025: Scaling African Innovation on the Global Stage RealPay is taking African FinTech from local solutions to global impact. What began as a focused FinTech offering has grown into a 49+ product ecosystem – designed for African businesses navigating an intricate digital economy. Their digital payments and collections solutions are as

Paga Group Expands Into the U.S. Market With Digital Banking for Africa’s Diaspora

Paga

Paga Group, a UK-headquartered financial technology company and one of Africa’s fastest-growing fintech businesses, today announced its expansion into the United States market with the launch of digital banking services for Africa’s diaspora community. Created in partnership with a US-regulated bank, Paga’s new service provides Africans living in the US with unprecedented access to international

Yellow Card Supercharges Cross-Border Payments, Joining the Fireblocks Network for Payments

Yellow

Yellow Card, Africa’s leading fintech for digital asset payments and infrastructure, has long focused on solving one of the most difficult challenges for businesses across the continent: cross-border payments. For too many companies, the reality has been a maze of fragmented systems, high transaction costs, and slow, manual processes. By reimagining financial infrastructure to meet

Mastercard and Circle Partner on Digital Settlements

Master

Mastercard and Circle are deepening their longstanding partnership to enable USDC and EURC settlement for acquirers across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EEMEA). As stablecoins continue to address real-world challenges and improve efficiencies across a range of use cases, this collaboration highlights their shared commitment to advancing digital settlement in the region. This

HoneyCoin Raises $4.9M to Scale Stablecoin Payments in Africa

HoneyCoin

HoneyCoin, a transformative global payment orchestration platform, announced a $4.9 million funding round led by the global venture firm Flourish Ventures. Flourish is joined by a dynamic mix of regional and global investors: Visa Ventures, TLcom Capital, Stellar Development Foundation, Lava, Musha Ventures, 4DX Ventures, and Antler. The new capital will accelerate the scale of

Safaricom and PayPal Link Accounts

Safaricom

Safaricom has announced a groundbreaking collaboration with PayPal that aims to empower more than 35 million M-PESA customers and two million businesses and micro traders in Kenya with seamless access to PayPal’s global payments network. The partnership opens new opportunities for individuals and enterprises to transact beyond borders, connecting Kenya’s thriving digital economy with the

Western Union, Zoona and Chipper Cash Launch International Money Transfer Services

Western

Western Union, Zoona Transactions Zambia Limited, and Chipper Cash today jointly announced the launch of international money transfer services through the Chipper Cash app. This new, co-branded service empowers customers in Zambia to send and receive money across borders with greater ease, flexibility, and security, meeting the growing demand for digital-first financial solutions. Zoona, a

OpenWay Recognized as Best-in-Class in Datos Insights’ 2025 Matrix for Merchant Acquiring Platforms

OpenWay, a global leader in payments software and developer of the Way4 digital payment software platform, has been recognized as a Best-in-Class vendor in the 2025 Merchant Acquiring Software Platforms Matrix by Datos Insights. The ranking places OpenWay in the Market Leaders quadrant, based on the strength of its solution capabilities, high customer satisfaction, innovation

Blu Penguin and Network International Power Ghana’s Mobile Money

Blu Penguin

Blu Penguin, a Ghana-based fintech and mobile money aggregator, has joined forces with Network International, a leading enabler of digital commerce across the Middle East and Africa, to bring mobile money capabilities to merchants across Ghana. This strategic collaboration integrates Blu Penguin’s mobile payment technology with Network’s N-Genius™ point-of-sale (POS) terminals, marking a significant step

MDP Boosts MEA Growth With BPC’s SmartVista Platform

SmartVista

MDP and BPC SmartVista collaboration continues to strengthen the company’s position as a payments leader across the Middle East and Africa. MDP, a long-standing leader in Africa’s card issuing and payment processing landscape, has significantly expanded its footprint across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) through its strategic partnership with global payments technology provider, BPC.