AZA Finance, the financial group that runs Nairobi-based BitPesa, has acquired South Africa's cross-border payments firm Exchange4Free in an expansion move. The acquisition follows a combined Series B debt and ...
BitPesa, a Nairobi-based Cryptocurrency liquidity platform has raised $16 million and formed a new holding company AZA Group, to run its brands BitPesa, TransferZero and BFX. The debt financing was ...
Kenya's BitPesa has raised $5m from Japanese insurance group Sompo Holdings in a move expected to revolutionize cross-border payments and insurance services globally. Sompo will use Bitpesa’s technology to extend its presence in the ...
BitPesa, a digital foreign exchange and payment platform that leverages blockchain settlement to significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of business payments to and from frontier markets has partnered ...
BitPesa is an online payment platform that leverages Blockchain settlement to significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of business payments to, from and within sub-Saharan Africa. BitPesa's clients ...
Being ambitious is great. However, making that ambition a reality is one of the biggest challenges many people are currently facing. This is not the case for Elizabeth Rossiello, the ...
BitPesa has launched in Ghana and will be offering new currency pairs, allowing Ghanaians to make GHS payments that settle in more than ten currencies, including NGN, UGX, and ZAR. With ...
BitPesa, a Nairobi-based blockchain payments platform for Africa and Europe has acquired TransferZero, an international, online money transfer platform that specializes in sending money to consumers and companies in 200 ...
Pan-African blockchain payments firm BitPesa has raised $4m in a follow-up to its Series A funding round led by Greycroft, a majority of existing shareholders and another new investor, Plug ...
Berlin-based Bitbond, a bitcoin payment processor that connects fixed-income investors with small business owners who need loans has partnered up with BitPesa, to allow borrowers who receive funding on Bitbond ...
BitPesa, a digital currency payments company, has closed a $2.5 million Series A round to expand its services in the UK, Europe as well as further across West and Southern ...
After raising an undisclosed round of funding in February from BitFury Capital, BitPesa has revamped its platform to make global FX payments easier, safer, and more efficient and introduced transfers between Africa and ...
Pan-African bitcoin payments and trading firm BitPesa has raised an undisclosed round of funding from BitFury Capital, an investment arm of Bifury Group, a Bitcoin Blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction ...
BitPesa has launched in Tanzania, enabling users to make payments or send money to any mobile money platform in the country. "You can now make a payment to any Tanzanian ...
Kenya's BitPesa, a Bitcoin to Kenyan Shilling (KES) remittance service has closed a follow-on round of $1.1M to fuel its operations in Kenya, Ghana and as well expand into Tanzania ...
Launched in beta this June, bitcoin remittance service BitPesa has launched a new service that aims to help NGOs operating in Nairobi, Kenya receive donations in bicoins with ease and ...
Last month, BitPesa began the pilot phase of a new, cheaper, faster way to send money from anywhere to Kenya freely and at a highly competitive exchange rate to any ...
Elizabeth, CEO BitPesa Kenya's BitPesa has launched in beta to allow Kenyans living in abroad to send money back home with ease and at affordable rates. ...
By Eric M K Osiakwan On 1st of April, as I was publishing my Uniconization of African Fintech piece, Mastercard was busy announcing their $100 million investment into Airtel Money ...
PayPal has announced the launch of a new service enabling its customers to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency directly from their PayPal account, a move set to shake cypto world. ...
Founded by Amit Aggarwal, Andrei Kaleis and MVK, Zolango, an ecommerce marketplace has gone live and is offering to buy and sell their products using Bitcoin. The platform offers more ...
Nairobi Garage, a coworking space for innovative and growing businesses has launched a new hub in Karen, Nairobi, making the total workspace provided by Nairobi Garage across its three locations ...
It has been a long while before Kenya warmed up to the blockchain, previously regarded with suspicion and relative hostility, with some even referring to Bitcoin as a "pyramid-scheme" that ...
Much like IPO stands for Initial Public Offering in which investors purchase shares of a company, ICO is Initial Coin Offering. These three words have had tongues wagging in a ...
African tech startups raised $560 million in VC funding in 2017, a 53% YoY Growth according to a report by Partech Ventures with a total of 128 rounds in 124 African tech start-ups, ...
The role played by digital technology in the development of Africa’s economy will take centre stage at the Innovation Summit Africa set for Nairobi on March 6th. The event, hosted by The ...
Africa Tech Summit Kigali is set to hold on February 14th and 15th to drive business and investment across the continent forward. Supported by the Rwandan Ministry of ICT, Africa Tech ...
The first 25 speakers from leading tech companies across Africa have been announced for the upcoming Africa Tech Summit Kigali. The speakers confirmed include industry leaders from Facebook, Andela, BRCK, ...
Headquartered in Singapore, Malaysia, with operational offices in India, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China and Dubai, Belfrics Global has launched its Bitcoin Exchange in Kenya to allow traders and Bitcoin users ...
The AppsAfrica.com Innovation Awards celebrate the best in mobile and tech from across Africa supported by Mobile Monday South Africa and Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF) and are now accepting entries for ...
