Chipper Cash raises $100m in SVB-led Series C round
Africa-focused P2P firm claims to be the continent’s most valuable start-up
Africa-focused P2P firm claims to be the continent’s most valuable start-up
Demery takes over fintech partnerships in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Singaporean cross-border payments firm has raised $130m in total.
“We see this super-app as a precursor to M-Pesa’s evolution,” says CEO.
A wider partnership with Amazon “is important”, says CEO.
South African insurance processor finishes first phase migration of five systems.
African challenger bank selects BPC company to underpin payments.
Trading firm says it can double its transaction volume to $2.5 billion by 2021.
South African bank aims to provide easy payments to small businesses.
“Emerging markets across Southeast Asia and Africa present fresh opportunities”.
Bank of Abyssinia has over 4.6 million customers and 580+ branches and Islamic windows.
The Series A round was led by CardinalStone Capital Advisers.
The Series A followed a $350,000 seed raise in 2019.
WorldRemit’s first market was Somaliland.
Airtel Africa hopes to list the mobile money business as a separate entity.
Neobank nabs more funding just four months after last round.
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Crédit du Maroc will implement Temenos Transact and Temenos Payments.
The bank was looking for “a proven banking solution to be implemented by a reliable vendor”.
“London has taken up the mantle of fintech advocate and champion.”
It is one of the few African start-ups to have secured more than $200 million in funding.
The bank is an existing user of Temenos’ core banking platform.
Jerry Yang, former Yahoo! CEO and director at Alibaba, also invested.
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The round was led by Matt Kalish of DraftKings and TBD Angels.
It raised a convertible loan from the MASSIF fund, which is run by FMO.
The undisclosed amount in pre-seed funding came from Australian venture capital firm TEN13.
The funding round was led by Lundin Group and other existing investors.
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TymeBank looks to expand beyond its South African headquarters.
Atawodi spent more than six years at Uber.
The start-up is now looking to raise £5 million from institutional investors.
Sanat Rao says the time is right to invest in back-end systems change.
The undisclosed amount of funding will help the paytech scale.