Accra, Ghana//-First Atlantic Bank PLC, which recently listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), today assured the investing public it would continue to prioritise technology as a key driver of its growth and digital banking innovation in the country.
Tanzania// — KCB Bank Tanzania (https://KCBBank.co.tz/) has partnered with PayPal to integrate PayPal services into the KCB Mobile App, giving customers a simple, secure and convenient way to connect to global payments directly through their banking app.
South Africa// — Mukuru (www.Mukuru.com), a leading financial services provider, has partnered with Flash, a payments technology company with an extensive network of spaza shops across South Africa, adding 170,000 cash pay-in points where customers can now pay for their Mukuru remittance orders.
Accra, Ghana// – Chief Executive Officer of MobileMoney Fintech LTD (MMFL), Shaibu Haruna, has been named CEO of the Year – Fintech at the Ghana CEO Vision & Awards 2026, securing the honour for the second consecutive year.
Accra, Ghana//-The Bank of Ghana (BoG), in collaboration with the Cybersecurity Authority, has stepped up efforts to sanitise the digital credit space and protect the public from entities providing digital credit services without the requisite licence or authorisation.
Ghana’s Minister for Communications and Digital Technology, Samuel Nartey George, has disclosed that more than 3.1 million Ghanaians are using virtual assets, including cryptocurrencies.
George Kladakis, University of St Andrews and Alexandros Skouralis, University of Reading Recent elections in Brazil and Israel have yielded different political outcomes. In Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s narrow and ultimately surprising victory in a presidential runoff vote has kept him in office.
The Ghanaian cedi is Africa’s fourth most valuable currency against the US dollar, behind only those of Tunisia, Libya and Morocco.
Abuja, Nigeria// — African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com) and the African Petroleum Producers’ Organisation (APPO) have formally announced the establishment of the Africa Energy Bank (AEB).
Dakar, Senegal//- — Visa and Senegal’s Ministry of Telecommunications and Digital Affairs have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) establishing a two-year framework for strategic collaboration to support Senegal’s digital transformation ambitions.
