mobile money
Digital Economy
Africa’s $900 Billion Mobile Money Market: The B2B Supply-Chain Payments Shift
⚡ Key Takeaways Africa processes ~$1.43T in annual mobile money, but 80%+ of B2B supply-chain transactions remain cash. BCG projects...
Digital Economy
Algeria’s Telecoms Enter Fintech: What MNO-Led Mobile Money Means for Digital Payments
⚡ Key Takeaways Algeria has 54.8 million mobile connections but only 16% of adults use digital payments, with 57% of...
Digital Economy
East Africa’s Digital Trade Inflection: Why 2026 Is the Year Cross-Border E-Commerce Breaks Through
⚡ Key Takeaways East Africa’s digital commerce market is at an inflection point driven by the EAC Cross-Border Payment System...
Digital Economy
Africa’s $75B Digital Commerce Ecosystem: Lessons from Converge Africa 2026
⚡ Key Takeaways Africa’s digital commerce market is projected to reach $72 billion by 2026 with 25% annual growth, but...
Digital Economy
Africa’s Fintech Second Wave: How $65 Billion in Revenue Will Be Built on Credit, Not Payments
⚡ Key Takeaways BCG projects African fintech revenues growing from ~$10 billion today to $65 billion by 2030, with embedded...
Digital Economy
Africa’s Digital Trade Corridor: Ghana and Rwanda Launch Cross-Border Ecommerce Rails
⚡ Key Takeaways Ghana’s Vice President announced a digital trade corridor with Rwanda, Zambia, and partner nations at the 2026...
Digital Economy
Africa Fintech Second Wave: How Embedded Finance and B2B Credit Move Beyond Mobile Money
⚡ Key Takeaways Africa’s fintech revenues are projected to grow six-fold from $10 billion to over $65 billion by 2030,...
Digital Economy
Africa’s Remittance Fintech Wave: LemFi, Cauridor, and the Race to Cut the $54B Corridor Cost
⚡ Key Takeaways Africa’s $54B annual remittance market remains the world’s most expensive, with fees routinely exceeding the UN’s 3%...
Cybersecurity & Risk
AI-Powered Phishing Hits African Banking: Defense Playbook for Algerian Teams
⚡ Key Takeaways INTERPOL’s Operation Red Card 2.0 (December 2025 – January 2026) arrested 651 suspects across 16 African countries,...
Digital Economy
Beyond M-Pesa: Africa’s Fintech Second Wave Targets Credit and Savings
⚡ Key Takeaways Africa’s $65B fintech second wave is moving from payments to credit — built on AI underwriting of...
Digital Economy
Ethiopia Switches On EthioPay-IPS: The $30M Instant-Payments Backbone
EthSwitch launched EthioPay-IPS, connecting 32 banks, 12 MFIs and 6 PSPs on a $30M BPC SmartVista platform to unify Ethiopia's digital payments.
