London lands Africa’s hottest fintech IPO

by nouman | Jul 23, 2026 | Airtel Africa, Airtel Money, Bharti Airtel, Citi, Financial services, London Stock Exchange, MasterCard, MTN, News, Safaricom, Sections, Sunil Taldar, TPG

Airtel Money’s London listing will give investors a first clean benchmark for valuing African mobile money platforms.

Solve taxis and cash dies: Shop2Shop’s township thesis

by nouman | Jul 23, 2026 | Financial services, Flash, Garth Napier, News, Pepkor, Peter Berry, Pieter Erasmus, Sections, Shop2Shop

Hours after news of the Pepkor merger, Shop2Shop CEO Peter Berry has predicted cash will vanish from the townships.

Pepkor builds R21-billion fintech giant – and plans to list it

by nouman | Jul 22, 2026 | Financial services, News, Pepkor, Peter Berry, Pieter Erasmus, Sections, Shop2Shop

Flash and Shop2Shop will combine to form a R21.3-billion platform Pepkor plans to list separately.

Mastercard bets billions on the tech that could eat its lunch

by nouman | Jul 21, 2026 | BVNK, Circle, Financial services, MasterCard, News, Open Standard, Prakriti Singh, Ripple, Sections, Visa

Mastercard says trust, not cost, will decide who wins payments as stablecoins and AI agents advance.

The economy the statistics miss is thriving on Spondo Street

by nouman | Jul 16, 2026 | Astron Energy, Company News, Financial services, Lesaka, Lesaka Technologies, Lincoln Mali, Sections

A Zwide forecourt shows how townships cluster real economic activity around formal infrastructure.

Stripe, Advent in talks to buy PayPal for $53-billion

by nouman | Jul 15, 2026 | Advent, Advent International, Financial services, News, PayPal, Sections, Stripe

Stripe and private equity firm Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal Holdings, according to sources.