In today’s FinTech news, ride-hail firm Ola acquires challenger bank Avail Finance, while Relay Payments launches a payments solution for the fleet industry. Plus, a...
Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and entrepreneurs play a critical role in the overall development of most economies, particularly in emerging regions like Africa. Findings...
In today’s top Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) news, U.S. and EU officials met in Pittsburgh to discuss technology regulation, while U.K. commercial...
Card acceptance in South Africa has doubled over the last six years. That’s the good news. The bad news is that moving card acceptance from...
South African payments company Yoco has raised $83 million in a Series C funding round, according to a company blog post. The company said in...
The cloud is nowhere near a “new” technology, but it did take the enterprise a few years to trust the tool — particularly amid the...
In Africa, small to mid-sized enterprises are an engine of the overall economy. As noted on the International Trade Centre’s website, more than 70 percent...
In South Africa, where cash still reigns and there are few signs of merchants and consumers moving away from paper and coin payments, small- and medium-sized...