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Julaya Receives BCEAO Electronic Money Institution License in Cote d'Ivoire

Cote d'Ivoire-based B2B payment platform Julaya has received an electronic money institution license from the Central Ba...

ABA EditorialMar 5, 2026Cote d'Ivoire

Market Report

Mobile Money Agent Networks: The Cash-In Cash-Out Economy Underpinning African Fintech

Safaricom M-Pesa operates approximately 298,890 agents serving 35.82 million customers and KSh 38.29 trillion in FY25 tr...

ABA EditorialMar 4, 2026Kenya

Expert Insight

African BNPL Has a Retail Margin Problem Nobody Wants to Name

The African BNPL market is projected to grow to USD 16.8 billion by 2031. The growth projections assume that African BNP...

ABA Editorial BoardMar 2, 2026Kenya

Market Report

African Bank-Fintech Partnerships in 2026: The End of the Disruption Story

Equity Bank operates across six African countries with over 19 million customers. Ecobank Group spans 33 African countri...

ABA EditorialFeb 25, 2026Kenya

Market Report

Women-Led Fintech and the African Gender Finance Gap

Morocco shows a 23-percentage-point gender gap in financial account ownership (56 percent men versus 33 percent women). ...

ABA EditorialFeb 24, 2026Kenya

Expert Insight

Francophone West African Fintech Is the Next Wave. It Is Already Starting.

English-language African fintech coverage has been dominated for a decade by Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa. Francopho...

ABA Editorial BoardFeb 19, 2026Senegal

Case Study

Turaco: Building Microinsurance at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Turaco was founded to solve a specific problem: how to provide affordable insurance to low-income customers who had neve...

ABA EditorialFeb 17, 2026Kenya

Market Report

Yellow Card and the African Stablecoin Infrastructure Layer

Yellow Card operates in approximately 20 African countries providing businesses with on-ramps and off-ramps between loca...

ABA EditorialFeb 16, 2026Nigeria

Market Report

African Regtech in 2026: Smile ID, Youverify, and the KYC-AML Infrastructure Layer

Smile ID has raised USD 31.1 million across 5 rounds and supports KYC and AML compliance across all 54 African countries...

ABA EditorialFeb 15, 2026Nigeria

Market Report

BNPL in Africa: How Lipa Later, Payflex, valU, and CredPal Anchor a USD 16.8 Billion Market

The African BNPL market is projected to grow from USD 5.2 billion in 2025 to USD 16.8 billion by 2031 at a 20.7 percent ...

ABA EditorialFeb 11, 2026Kenya

Expert Insight

The USD 330 Billion African SME Credit Gap Is the Wrong Number to Chase

The USD 330 billion African SME credit gap is the most-cited statistic in African fintech. Development finance instituti...

ABA Editorial BoardFeb 7, 2026Nigeria

Market Report

Open Banking in Africa and the Okra Collapse: What Nigeria's August 2025 Go-Live Actually Means

In August 2025 Nigeria became the first African country to go live with a formal open banking framework. Two months earl...

ABA EditorialFeb 6, 2026Nigeria