by nouman | Aug 31, 2026 | Startups, Top Stories, West Africa
Ventures Platform, Africa’s leading seed-stage fund, has announced the final close of its second institutional fund – VP Pan-African Fund II (VP PAF II)– at $84 million, exceeding its original target of $75 million. Achieved just three years after the close of Fund I...
by nouman | Aug 31, 2026 | Digital Transformation, Top Stories
Artificial intelligence is reshaping industries, economies and societies at an unprecedented speed. As demand for cloud computing, AI workloads and data-intensive digital services accelerates, access to resilient, scalable and locally hosted digital infrastructure...
by nouman | Aug 28, 2026 | Digital Finance, East Africa, Top Stories
EBC Financial Group notes that Kenya’s new virtual asset regulations created a restriction on local access to foreign dollar-linked stablecoins before the shilling came under pressure, giving the Central Bank of Kenya a way to limit that access if demand for US...
by nouman | Aug 28, 2026 | Digital Finance, Top Stories
Mastercard, QNB Group have processed Syria’s first international card payment in more than 15 years, marking an important milestone in the modernization of Syria’s payments ecosystem. Following the technical reconnection of Syria’s payments ecosystem to Mastercard’s...
by quikefix quikefix.com | Aug 10, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Top Stories
Absa has deployed an artificial intelligence and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) solution within its Debt Review operations, cutting document-processing times and reducing the amount of manual work required from employees. Since the system went live in late June,...
by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 31, 2026 | Online & Social, Top Stories, West Africa
Bolt Business (https://Bolt.eu/), the corporate mobility solution from Bolt, has recorded strong year-on-year growth in Nigeria, underscoring increasing demand from businesses seeking smarter, more efficient ways to manage employee transportation and business travel....
