African fintech M-Kopa secures $200m debt financing and $55m equity funding
The debt financing was led by Standard Bank Group and the equity round by Sumitomo Corporation.
The debt financing was led by Standard Bank Group and the equity round by Sumitomo Corporation.
With the acquisition, Smile Identity aims to expand its reach across Ghana and francophone Africa.
It is hoped the partnership will “accelerate digitisation” and boost entrepreneurship in Africa.
A round-up of the recent funding endeavours of fintech companies across the Middle East and Africa.
Nigeria’s Carbon Finance is now a full-service bank with pan-African aspirations.
Start-up says the funding will support expansion into Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Ghana and Egypt.
Fido has now raised $38m to date and intends to use the fresh capital to launch new financial products in Ghana.
Dash is a unified payment network for the 1.3 billion Africans currently transacting digitally.
M-Kopa will use the new cash to grow its team and expand into additional countries.
Ghana-based Float and Uganda-based Asaak raise $17 million and $30 million, respectively.
The company will use the cash to expand into more emerging markets.
The extension brings Chipper Cash’s total funding to date to over $305 million.
Bank says the pandemic has caused a shift to digital payments across Africa.
The lender is replacing existing Finastra systems with Oracle across multiple countries.
Addis International Bank, Arab Commercial Bank, and OmniBSIC Bank are the new Flexcube takers.
The Dutch fintech will act as the core strategic partner for the bank’s digital operations.
Africa-focused P2P firm claims to be the continent’s most valuable start-up
Paystack has 60,000 business customers across Nigeria and Ghana.
Ingressive averages $200,000 to $400,000 in individual investments.
The San Francisco-based start-up operates across seven African countries.
Remittance firm claims uptake in growth during COVID-19 pandemic.
Both smart and ‘yam’ phones can pay through QR codes.
Joint venture takes control of popular mobile money brand from Vodafone.
Jumia will help various African governments distribute masks to hospitals.
Nigeria & Ghana have taken significant steps toward increasing access to digitisation.
Consolidation project finalises under Temenos platform.
Bringing its new service to four countries.
The service has only launched in Ghana, so far.