AZA Finance, the financial group that runs Nairobi-based BitPesa, has acquired South Africa’s cross-border payments firm Exchange4Free in an expansion…
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BitPesa, a Nairobi-based Cryptocurrency liquidity platform has raised $16 million and formed a new holding company AZA Group, to run…
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Bitpesa leveraging Blockchain to lower cost and increase the speed of business payments in Africa
BitPesa is an online payment platform that leverages Blockchain settlement to significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of…
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Kenya’s BitPesa, a Bitcoin to Kenyan Shilling (KES) remittance service has closed a follow-on round of $1.1M to fuel its…
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BitPesa Launches Platform to Enable NGOs in Kenya to Receive Bitcoin Donations
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaLaunched in beta this June, bitcoin remittance service BitPesa has launched a new service that aims to help NGOs operating…
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Last month, BitPesa began the pilot phase of a new, cheaper, faster way to send money from anywhere to Kenya…
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BREAKING: BitPesa Launches UK-Kenya Money Remittance Services
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaKenya’s BitPesa has launched in beta to allow Kenyans living in abroad to send money back home with ease and…
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Ayoken,a London-headquartered NFT marketplace for creatives, has secured $1.4 million pre-seed funding to enable users grow their revenue streams through…
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By Eric M K Osiakwan On 1st of April, as I was publishing my Uniconization of African Fintech piece, Mastercard…
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Nairobi Garage, a coworking space for innovative and growing businesses has launched a new hub in Karen, Nairobi, making the…
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It has been a long while before Kenya warmed up to the blockchain, previously regarded with suspicion and relative hostility,…
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Much like IPO stands for Initial Public Offering in which investors purchase shares of a company, ICO is Initial Coin…
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Doubts about the ‘Africa Rising’ narrative as expatriate-founders take over Kenya’s startup ecosystem
African tech startups raised $560 million in VC funding in 2017, a 53% YoY Growth according to a report by Partech…
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When Bitcoin startups began in Africa, it was a major hit. But when BitPesa a startup that began in Kenya…
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Nigeria’s Bitstake Wants to be Africa’ Biggest Bitcoin Remittance Service
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaYou’ve probably heard of BitPesa, a UK to Kenya Bitcoin-to-M-PESA remittance service disrupting old-school money remittance services such as Western…
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Transfast takes on Western Union, MoneyGram with New Direct to M-PESA Partnership
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaLast year, Kenyans living abroad sent home a record high of $1.43 billion, a 10.68 percent increase over 2013 making…
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Byt wants to take bitcoins mainstream | Targeting over 30 million Kenyans
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaThere was Kipochi, then BitPesa then BitSoko. Kipochi died just as it came but BitPesa has stood the test of…
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Kenya’s TagPesa wants to be Africa’s largest bitcoin exchange platform
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaTagPesa, an exchange and remittance company based in Kenya wants to provide a crypto-currency exchange platform to revolutionize Africa’s…
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South Africa’s Wallettec Partners with BitPay to take Bitcoin Transactions to Brick-and-mortar Retailers
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaWallettec, a South African Point of Sale and loyalty system firm has today announced a partnership with BitPay, a bitcoin…
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Mobile money is mainstream in Kenya thanks to Safaricom, Kopo Kopo and several others who have made Lipa Na M-Pesa…
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Sierra Leona-based ethical fashion company Bureh has pioneered in advancing digital currency economy for sub-Saharan Africa when it finally accepted…
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CEO Weekends: Ghana’s Kitiwa Converts Local Curency into Bitcoins
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaIn most of Africa payment firms like PayPal and VISA have some countries blacklisted thus making it hard for business…
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CEO Weekends: BitX, South Africa’s Bitcoin Exchange Goes Live in Kenya & Nigeria
by Sam Wakobaby Sam WakobaSouth Africa’s bitcoin software firm Switchless is expanding its BitX, bitcoin exchange rapidly across the continent with a new presence in…
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