South Africa invites investors, institutions and media to meet South African innovators building secure digital-asset custody and AI-driven financial intelligence, and to help shape an Africa–Asia fintech corridor. South Africa arrives at Hong Kong FinTech Week 2026 with a clear proposition for Asian capital: a well-regulated financial system, Africa’s deepest capital markets and a new
BNPL is becoming an increasingly mainstream part of how South Africans manage their spending and household cash flow. With annual inflation at 4.4% in August, the repo rate now at 7.25%, and petrol prices up to over R30 a litre, consumers have even more reason to think carefully about when they spend and how they
Sao Payment Global Limited, a licensed financial technology company founded in São Tomé and Príncipe, has officially launched its operations in Ghana, marking a significant expansion of its African payments network and establishing Ghana as its hub for Anglophone West Africa. The launch took place on 7 October 2026 at the Labadi Beach Hotel in
Flutterwave‘s Founder and CEO, Africa’s leading payments technology company, Olugbenga “GB” Agboola, has been named a member of the Silicon Valley & The World Advisory Board’s Founders Council, joining a select group of global entrepreneurs and business leaders helping shape dialogue around technology, artificial intelligence, and its growing impact on economies and societies. Silicon Valley
NymCard, the MENA region’s leading embedded finance provider, has entered into a strategic partnership with Visa, a global leader in digital payments, to launch a dedicated commercial payments platform – Nym4Business – exclusively for Visa clients. The platform enables banks and non-banking financial institutions across Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA)
Nomba, a business banking and financial infrastructure platform, has extended its existing Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) payments corridor into Zambia through licensed local partners. The highly strategic move into Africa’s fastest-growing trade route advances the company’s Pan-African business banking ambitions and follows the recent fundraise to expand cross-border payments infrastructure in the DRC.
dLocal, the leading payments platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, and Western Union, a global leader in cross-border money movement, today announced an expansion of their partnership in Africa to include payouts. This adds to the collections work they already run together, with dLocal providing the technology and connectivity layer, while regulated local partners
Absa Group, one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services providers, has selected Thunes, the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world, as a strategic Multicurrency Clearing (MCC) partner for the Group. The new collaboration builds on the two companies’ recent launch of Absa Global Pay in South Africa which demonstrated the value of combining the company’s
Walletdoc, one of South Africa’s leading payment technology companies, is bringing Visa Payment Passkeys to local merchants, enabling them to offer shoppers a faster, more secure and passwordless online checkout. South African shoppers can now skip the frustrating redirect to their bank and the one-time PINs that slow down online card payments and instead approve
Luno, a leading regulated digital asset platform operating across multiple emerging markets, has acquired GTXN, a cross-border payments company and fund manager in Kenya, and named Dan Kleinbaum as its chief executive officer. GTXN gives Luno the licensed rails to collect and pay out money across the corridors that link developed and emerging markets, offered
