Kenya added 9 million mobile subscriptions in the year to December 2025, bringing the total to 51.36 million, according to the latest data from the Communications Authority (CA).  Subscriptions rose from 42.30 million in the previous year, with a 5.6% jump in the December quarter, driven by holiday spending. Although that jump is familiar, the

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Africa’s fintech giants are already regional, but regulation isn’t When Nigerian fintech companies expand across Africa, the technology often travels easily. Payments APIs integrate quickly, merchants understand the products, customers adopt digital wallets and online checkout tools without much friction. Regulation, however, does not travel as easily. A fintech that is licensed in Nigeria must

On the 10th floor of ABC Place in Nairobi’s Westlands, Radhika Bhachu doesn’t offer you tea. No small ceremony to ease you in. She’s already mid-thought when you sit down, like you’ve walked into a conversation she’s been having with herself all morning. If we weren’t doing this interview, she says, she’d be on investor

In January 2026, BitGo, the United States-based digital asset and Web3 infrastructure company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), joining a small club of crypto-native businesses now exposed to the same scrutiny as banks and publicly listed blue-chip tech companies.  It was the latest signal that crypto firms are no longer fringe experiments

In the past few months, I have covered startups such as Zerocard, CoinCircuit, and Machankura, all operationally distinct, but philosophically trying to do the same thing: plug cryptocurrencies into everyday spending.  Building solutions like that is a far cry from the first wave of African crypto solutions. In its early years, peer-to-peer (P2P) trading platforms

Kenswitch, a Kenyan payments infrastructure provider, has struck a partnership with Visa that could reshape the battle for control of Kenya’s next-generation payments systems, as banks, telecom operators, and foreign players jostle to anchor the country’s planned national switch. The framework agreement, announced on Thursday, comes as regulators push to unify fragmented payment systems into

MTN Group, Africa’s largest telecommunication company, has completed the separation of its mobile money business in Ghana, in a move to turn fintech into a standalone growth engine. In a regulatory filing on Thursday, the telco said Scancom PLC, its Ghanaian subsidiary, has finalised the merger of its mobile money subsidiary, MobileMoney Ltd, with a

Semiloore Akoni is a growth and product marketing leader focused on consumer technology, fintech, and digital commerce across Africa. With over a decade of experience in marketing and more than seven years in tech, he has built and scaled products across marketplaces, payments, and platform ecosystems. His work centres on user acquisition, activation, and retention

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