Africa: New payment service launched in 19 countries
March 17th, 2022 – United Bank for Africa (UBA) and leading Pan-African payments company Cellulant have announced a partnership that will extend payment services for merchants and consumers across 19 key African countries in which UBA operates. Thes...
UN reports on benefits of digital revolution in Africa
March 10th, 2022 – Coastal countries benefit from fast internet, thanks to undersea cables, and 4G mobile networks are expanding rapidly across the continent. Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, is referred to as the “Silicon Savannah” of Africa because...
BankiFi announced that it has joined Visa Fintech Partner Connect in Europe
March 9th, 2022 – BankiFi, the Manchester-based tech company on a mission to put banks at the heart of the business, has announced that it has joined Visa Fintech Partner Connect in Europe, a programme that helps Visa’s clients deliver the next ge...
SMEs to benefit from AfCFTA as MFS Africa joins PAPSS
February 21th, 2022 – Millions of semi-formal small and micro-African businesses are to benefit from opportunities in the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) as MFS Africa, a digital payments network, has announced that it has joined t...
How digitalization is making South and Southeast Asia engines of growth
February 10th, 2022 – Digital transformation worldwide was already increasingly changing how companies make and offer their propositions and interact with their customers. But the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified this, with technology emerging as a...
How The Small Business Trends Of 2021 Will Shape 2022
February 7th, 2022 – Small business trends have always provided an exciting look where commerce is heading, but they’ve never been as revealing as they are now. Much has changed over the past year, and the pre-pandemic ways of doing business are f...
Can hybrid finance unburden Africa’s shaky SME sector?
January 24th, 2022 – For SMEs in Africa the effects of the pandemic have exacerbated a woefully under-financed area of the economy, but by cultivating the right environment and encouraging SMEs to formalise their operations, hybrid financing might p...
South-East Asia’s SMEs are underperforming. Their ‘digital revolution’ depends on fintech
January 24th, 2022 – Major economies in South-East Asia have been hit hard by the pandemic and are still navigating the path to recovery amid renewed outbreaks, new virus variants and an uneven vaccine roll-out. Yet as devastating as lockdown restri...
South-East Asian SMEs are missing out on the digital revolution. Here’s how to get them on board
January 18th, 2022 – Major economies in South-East Asia have been hit hard by the pandemic and are still navigating the path to recovery amid renewed outbreaks, new virus variants and an uneven vaccine roll-out. Yet as devastating as lockdown restri...
African climate startups invited to apply for Adaptation SME Accelerator Project
December 16th, 2021 – Applications have opened in Africa and Asia for the Adaptation SME Accelerator Project (ASAP), a programme for SMEs and startups that are scaling market-based and contextualised solutions to critical climate adaptation and resi...
