Winners of Inaugural Mastercard Women SME Leaders Awards 2022 announced

Virtual awards ceremony names entrepreneurs and women-led businesses across 22 diverse categories and industry sectors Awards are aligned with Mastercard’s global commitment to connect 25 million women entrepreneurs to the digital economy by 2025, as part of its goal to build a more inclusive world Winners includes women entrepreneurs from across the region including the

Paysend Partners with Afrimoney to Enable Transfers to the Gambia and Sierra Leone

Paysend, the UK-based fintech with over 6.5 million customers, announces a technology partnership with Afrimoney, the mobile money service provided by Africell, to enable money transfers to West Africa, specifically The Gambia and Sierra Leone. Through the partnership, which is powered by MFS Africa, Paysend will enable users to send money across borders via Africell

Building Africa’s Leading Trade Platform – Standard Bank

Technology, presence and global reach define continent’s future trade ecosystem Delivering on Standard Bank’s ambition to build Africa’s dominant business trade platform is not as unlikely as many may think. As a bank committed to driving Africa’s growth, for decades Standard Bank has steadily expanded its footprint and deepened its reach and capability across 20

Stanbic IBTC Emerges Winner at 2022 Cosmopolitan The Daily Business Awards

Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC, a subsidiary of Stanbic IBTC Holdings, has been awarded the Best Cash Management Bank and the Best Trade Finance and Supply Finance Provider in Nigeria at the 2022 edition of the Cosmopolitan The Daily Business Awards, which held recently. Organised by Cosmopolitan The Daily Business publication, the business award recognises financial

West Africa Set to Unlock the Power of Small Businesses – Standard Bank

Standard Bank’s BCC division driving Africa’s growth one small business at a time Standard Bank’s recently established Business & Commercial Clients (BCC) division is deliberately focused on building a capability ecosystem to support small traders, agribusinesses, emerging manufacturers and entrepreneurs to grow into formal enterprises – or even become national corporates or cross-border multinationals. In

Visa, Bantu Collaborate to Foster Financial Inclusion in Africa, Other Economies

Visa, the world leader in digital payments, is collaborating with the Bantu Blockchain Foundation (Bantu), custodians of the Bantu Blockchain Network infrastructure, to connect its digital asset-linked Visa cards to the Bantu Network Token (XBN), a utility token developed by Bantu to facilitate fast and secure transactions on the Bantu blockchain. This integration is expected to directly

Stanbic IBTC Introduces Flex Border to Ease Cross-Border Transactions

Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC, a subsidiary of Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, has announced the introduction of the Stanbic IBTC Flex Border, a newly added feature on its digital platforms aimed at simplifying customers’ experience with international payments and cross-border transactions. The Flex Border feature will enable Stanbic IBTC domiciliary account holders make direct international fund

Ecobank’s Leadership in Treasury and Cash Management across Africa recognised at the Global Finance Awards

The Awards Ceremony is scheduled to take place during the annual Sibos conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands in October 2022 Ecobank (www.Ecobank.com), the leading Pan-African Banking Group, has won five prestigious awards at the Global Finance Treasury & Cash Management Awards 2022, including Africa’s Best Bank for Cash Management and Africa’s Best Provider of Short-Term Investments/Money

United Bank for Africa Partners with Cellulant to Expand its Reach in 19 Markets Across Africa

Partnership between United Bank for Africa and Cellulant extends payments services for merchants and consumers across the African continent Africa’s global bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, and leading Pan-African Payments Company Cellulant (Cellulant.io) have announced a partnership that will extend payment services for merchants and consumers across 19 key African countries in which

Absa Expands its Digital Partnership Ecosystem

Absa Group has signed agreements with the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Ghana, the Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative (CiTi) and Grindstone in South Africa to support and collaborate in initiatives that are aimed at growing emerging technology and other businesses in Africa. The agreements expand Absa’s Digital Partnerships capability, established in 2020