Vodacom SA has extended its lending offering in South Africa, with a new voucher offering where customers can get new appliances or food and pay later.
DataReportal's Digital 2021 Kenya report shows that almost 109% of the population has a mobile connection and 73% have a mobile money account, but only 40% use the Internet.
Omdia's analysts provide context and analysis to the biggest stories making headlines in Africa during March 2021.
Airtel Africa's mobile money business is getting a $100 million investment from Mastercard, and the operator plans to list the mobile money unit within four years.
This month's hot startup is Nigeria's OnePipe, which is aggregating APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
According to GSMA's 2021 State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money, there are now over 1.2 billion registered mobile money accounts globally and almost half of those are in Africa.
Despite mobile money's strides in recent years there is still a lot of room for growth, with stats from MTN showing many African countries still having fairly low mobile money penetration rates.
Omdia's analysts provide context and analysis on the biggest stories making headlines in Africa during February 2021.
Somali operator, Hormuud Telecom, has been granted the country's first mobile money license from the Central Bank of Somalia.
Nexign, the BSS and IoT platform provider, breaks down the biggest telco trends in 2021, including the monetization of 4G and more mobile money growth.
Vodacom's financial services business grew its revenue by 24.3% in last quarter of 2020.
Mastercard believes that 20-30% of the COVID-related shift to e-commerce spending will become a permanent feature going forward.
Twitter has announced it is planning to open an office in Accra, the Ghanaian capital – the first in Africa for the social media giant.
This month's hot startup is Nigeria's OnePipe, which is aggregating APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
Mastercard's Imelda Ngunzu talks to Connecting Africa about how digital payment solutions and mobile money are transforming the lives of small business owners, women and marginalized groups in East Africa.
GirlCode co-founder and CFO Tinyiko Simbine talks about why it's important to help girls and young women excel in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.
Poa Internet's CEO Andy Halsall shares his views on what it takes to develop last-mile connectivity and get Africans online in a meaningful way.
