Mastercard launches Africa Cybersecurity Center of Excellence to help secure the continent’s digital future

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Mastercard announced the launch of its Africa Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, a pan-African initiative designed to strengthen cyber resilience, enhance collaboration and help safeguard the trust that underpins Africa’s expanding digital economy. The announcement was made during a visit to South Africa and Nigeria by Mastercard CEO, Michael Miebach, reflecting Mastercard’s long-term commitment to supporting

Yuno Partners with Onafriq to Unlock Pan-African Payments for Global Merchants

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 Yuno, the global financial infrastructure platform, today announced a strategic partnership with Onafriq, the leading Pan-African payments network, to bring Africa’s most expansive payments infrastructure to merchants worldwide. Through this integration, Yuno’s clients gain instant access to Onafriq’s network spanning 43 African markets, nearly 1 billion mobile wallets, 500 million bank accounts, and 2,000 cross-border payment corridors — all through

Temenos and Interswitch Partner to Scale Digital Banking Services Across Africa

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Temenos, a global leader in banking technology, and Interswitch Group, a leading integrated payments and digital commerce company in Africa, today announced a collaboration, wherein Interswitch will adopt Temenos technology to enhance its digital banking capabilities, supporting its growth and expanding access to modern financial services across the continent. Interswitch will use Temenos solutions –

Interswitch Unveils Digital Forecourt Suite with ‘Pay-As-You-Want’ Capability at NNPC Retail Transformation Summit.

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Interswitch has unveiled its tailored Digital Forecourt suite, an integrated digital retail ecosystem designed to seamlessly connect payments, operations, and customer experiences within modern fuel retail environments. The unveiling took place at the NNPC Retail Business Transformation Summit held this May at the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), Abuja, where Interswitch participated as Headline Technology

Yuno Partners with Flutterwave to Simplify African Expansion for Global Merchants

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Yuno, the global financial infrastructure platform, today announced a strategic partnership with Flutterwave Inc, Africa’s leading payment technology company, to streamline payments for businesses expanding into Africa. Through a single API integration, Yuno merchants can now activate Flutterwave’s comprehensive local payment methods, including cards, mobile money, and bank transfers across key African markets instantly, eliminating

Upgrade or Lag Behind. Why Africa’s Banks Need Modern Card Management for Modern Banking?

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For many African financial institutions, card management is still treated as a back-office issuing function: produce cards, manage BINs, process transactions, and handle settlement. That view is becoming outdated. In today’s market, modern card management is no longer only about debit, credit or prepaid cards. It is becoming the foundation layer for digital-first experiences such

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,

Mambu Selected as Core Banking Provider by Nyla, Africa’s First Islamic Neobank

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Mambu, the leading SaaS cloud banking platform, today announced a strategic collaboration with Nyla, Africa’s first Islamic neobank, to power its shari’ah-compliant digital banking infrastructure as it launches in Ghana and prepares for expansion across West Africa. The partnership marks a significant milestone for Mambu’s Islamic banking offering in Africa, bringing scalable, cloud-native infrastructure to

From Social Engineering to Real-Time Risk: The New Fraud Playbook 2026 for Africa’s Digital Banking Era

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By Maxim Kuzin, Head of Fraud Monitoring Department, BPC From Africa’s digital payments story being one of the fastest-moving structural shifts in global finance — more accounts, more wallets, more rails, more real-time transfers, and more e-commerce — the same connectivity that compresses time-to-transaction also compresses time-to-fraud. Fraud is not merely “leakage”; it is a

Stripe-Owned Nigerian Fintech, PayStack, Launches Holding Company, The Stack Group, as it Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary

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Paystack, the payments company building technology for ambitious businesses across Africa, has announced the launch of The Stack Group (TSG), a new parent holding company that will bring together Paystack and a growing family of tech-focused brands under a single corporate umbrella. TSG has been established to aggregate and support a set of complementary businesses