How Opay Crushed Nigeria’s Biggest Banks

Safaricom opens its MPESA Nation series on the origin of M-Pesa, tracing how a humble airtime-transfer experiment in 2007 grew into a global mobile-money phenomenon.

Moniepoint CEO: This is the Future of Fintech in Nigeria

On The Flip, Moniepoint chief executive Tosin Eniolorunda discusses the future of fintech in Nigeria, reading where the business-banking and payments market heads next.

Africa’s fintech story is evolving beyond mobile money.

The Digital Fifth examines how Africa's fintech ecosystem is maturing past mobile money, opening new ground in lending, wealth and infrastructure that earlier wallets could not reach.

How M-Pesa Changed Africa Forever

Why a deceptively simple idea, sending money by phone, became M-Pesa and reshaped Kenyan commerce, turning airtime agents into a cash network reaching people banks never served.

From Mobile Money to Digital Assets: How African Leaders Frame Financial Modernization

Deji Adenusi examines how African leaders frame the move from mobile money toward digital assets, and the policy language shaping how the next stage of modernization is sold.

The $320 Billion App Banks Don't Want You to See

Capital Unplugged breaks down how M-Pesa now processes transaction volumes larger than Kenya's entire annual output, and what that scale means for the banks it quietly bypassed.

What It Really Takes to Start a Fintech in Nigeria

Isaac Lanre explains what it really takes to start a fintech in Nigeria, from licensing and capital to the operational hurdles that sink most would-be payment ventures.

How Most Nigerian Fintechs Actually Make Money

Isaac Lanre breaks down how most Nigerian fintechs actually make money, dissecting the revenue models behind PalmPay, Moniepoint, OPay, Kuda and Paga.

The Money: African Fintech at Scale

Mbuni News profiles the operators building Africa's financial layer, arguing the continent's fintech has moved from promise to genuine scale in the firms now running it.

M-Pesa: The African Mobile Money Innovation That Changed Global Finance

The origin of M-Pesa: in 2007, with eighty percent of Kenyan adults unbanked, a mobile transfer service rewired how a nation moved money and inspired imitators worldwide.

500+ Companies Power Nigeria’s Fintech Boom As Industry Hits $10.6 Billion

ADBN TV reports more than 500 companies powering Nigeria's fintech boom as the industry hits 10.6 billion dollars, mapping the scale of the country's digital-finance sector.

Banking the Unbanked: Inside Africa’s Billion-Dollar Fintech Revolution

Uplink Africa explains how mobile money moved beyond transfers into savings, bill payment and credit, pulling millions who never held a bank account into a working financial system.