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Nigeria's Zenith Bank now supports Google Pay, letting millions of customers tap their phones to pay securely without fumbling for cards. The move builds on the bank's tech-forward legacy, including opening Nigeria's first ATM gallery in 2007.
Kenya built Africa's best off-grid solar market using local money and mobile payments, proving communities don't need to wait for foreign investment. Now 50,000 households have affordable solar power through a pay-as-you-go system.
A Senegalese bank just cracked the code on mobile payments in Africa with a game-changing terminal that lets customers pay by card or phone. Merchants testing the technology saw sales jump up to 50% while getting their money the same day instead of waiting days.
Africa has leapfrogged traditional banking to become a mobile money powerhouse, processing over 80 billion transactions annually. Now the continent is building the reliability needed to turn this access into unstoppable growth.
Kenya's largest mobile money service is protecting 37 million daily users by hiding their phone numbers from merchants and banks. The change tackles a major source of unwanted marketing and scams in Africa's busiest payments system.
Two East African nations just signed a deal that could let fintech companies operate across borders with a single license. The move aims to cut red tape and help digital payment startups scale faster across the region.
Sending money across Africa just got faster and cheaper. Kenya's Pesalink network partnered with a Pan-African payment system to enable instant cross-border transfers in local currencies.