Cross Switch Appoints Nondumiso Siboto as Head of Operations, South Africa

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Cross Switch is pleased to announce the appointment of Nondumiso Siboto as Head of Operations, South Africa, reinforcing the company’s commitment to operational excellence and scalable growth across its regional footprint. Nondumiso brings wide-ranging experience in operations leadership, customer success, and large-scale service delivery across fintech and SaaS environments. Her appointment comes at a time

Nashua Partners With IKhokha to Expand Its Total Workspace Solutions Offering for SMEs

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Nashua, a leading provider of Total Workspace Solutions, has partnered with iKhokha, one of South Africa’s foremost fintech innovators, to add payment acceptance solutions, cash flow enablement solutions and digital financial tools to its comprehensive set of business solutions for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This positions Nashua as an end-to-end partner to SMEs, enabling

Mambu Celebrates 15 Years of Powering Next Gen Banking

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Mambu, the leading SaaS cloud banking platform, celebrates its 15th anniversary, celebrating a decade and a half of helping financial institutions launch and scale modern banking services around the world. Founded in 2010 by three university students, Mambu began with a simple idea. After a field trip to Mozambique exposed the limits of traditional banking

PAPSS Adoption Promised by CBN for Nigerian Banks in Business Post Nigeria

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PAPSS – the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System is a centralised Financial Market Infrastructure that enables the efficient flow of money securely across African borders, minimising risk and contributing to financial integration across the regions. The organisation collaborates with African central banks to offer payment and settlement solutions that commercial banks and licensed payment service

Absa and Thunes Launch Absa Global Pay for Cross-Border Remittances

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Absa Group and Thunes have announced the launch of Absa Global Pay, a digital remittance solution enabling Absa customers to send money internationally via the Absa Banking App or Absa Online platform. According to the official press release, the service launched on 3 March 2026, with an initial release covering six countries, including the UK,

Paymentology and Chikwama Pay Power Africa’s First WhatsApp-Based Borderless Neo-Bank

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Paymento

Paymentology, the leading global issuer-processor, today announces a partnership with Chikwama Pay, a pan-African neobank providing accessible financial services through WhatsApp. Together, they are powering Africa’s first WhatsApp-enabled neo-bank with fully integrated borderless payment processing, bringing secure, seamless, and affordable financial services to millions of underserved people across the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Chikwama

Why Card Payments Are Not Dead: The Rise of Modern Card Issuing Platforms

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modern card issuing platform architecture supporting digital cards and tokenised payments

In May 1897, The New York Journal mistakenly reported that American writer, Mark Twain, was gravely ill or near death. Twain’s humorous reply, “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated,” has made it into modern speak. It’s the refrain that people or things have prematurely been pronounced dead. For years, the payments industry has been flirting

Pesalink and Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) Unlock Cross-Border Payments in Local Currencies in Kenya

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Pesalink, Kenya’s de facto instant payment network, has partnered with the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) to ease cross-border payment and speed up regional financial integration. The partnership enables instant 24/7 cross-border payments from PAPSS participants into banks and mobile money operators within the Pesalink network in Kenya, all settled in local currencies. This

Emirates Expands Payment Flexibility in Kenya Through Cellulant’s Split-Payment Solution

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Emirates

Emirates, the world’s largest international airline, has introduced a first-of-its-kind split-payment solution for travellers in Kenya, through a longstanding strategic partnership with Cellulant, Africa’s leading payments technology company. The split-payment capability, enabled by Tingg, Cellulant’s payment gateway, has debuted in Kenya and is expected to roll out to other African markets in the coming months.

Ecobank and Hub2 Expand Digital Payments Access to 200 Million Mobile Wallet Users in Francophone Africa

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Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, the leading pan-African banking group, and Hub2, a fast-growing regional fintech infrastructure provider, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to connect Hub2’s network of more than 200 million mobile wallets to Ecobank’s pan-African digital banking platform. The partnership strengthens payment interoperability across Francophone Africa and expands access to secure, low-cost digital