Guides, reports, and expert insights for African business
Market ReportSub-Saharan Africa accounts for approximately 70 percent of global maternal deaths despite having a smaller share of glo...
How-to GuideSafaricom's Daraja is the API gateway that connects your application to M-Pesa. This guide walks through the practical i...
Kenya
Market ReportMini-grids occupy the middle space between grid extension and standalone solar: community-scale generation systems that ...
Market ReportPiggyVest has over 7 million users saving an average of NGN 25,000 every second as of 2024. Bamboo has over 500,000 inve...
NigeriaExpert InsightAfrican crypto regulation across 2024 and 2025 has moved toward formal licensing frameworks that treat crypto as a consu...
Nigeria
Market ReportClimate change has added severe uncertainty to African rainfall patterns, threatening smallholder yields and livelihoods...
Market ReportKuda's transaction volume exceeded NGN 14 trillion in 2025. FairMoney has over 6 million users and paid NGN 7 billion in...
NigeriaExpert InsightKuda has a national banking license. FairMoney is a licensed microfinance bank. TymeBank is profitable and expanding int...
NigeriaMarket ReportNigeria's NIBSS Instant Payments powers over 90 percent of Nigerian interbank transfers and processed over USD 1 trillio...
NigeriaMarket ReportIn June and July 2025, PAPSS launched two new products: PAPSSCARD (Africa's first continental card scheme) and PAPSS Afr...
NigeriaExpert InsightDevelopment finance institutions have been deploying gender-lens capital into African fintech for several years. The com...
KenyaMarket ReportNigeria has over 200 licensed digital lending platforms as of 2025. Kenya's M-Shwari controls roughly 34 percent of the ...
Nigeria