Why does Africa lead the way in mobile banking?

Onafriq on the future of fintech, mobile money in Africa

At the Africa FinTech Summit in Accra, cross-border payments firm Onafriq sets out where mobile money and continental payments are heading and the rails still missing.

How Moniepoint Quietly Took Over Nigeria

Before the POS terminals and business-banking suite, Moniepoint was TeamApt building back-end technology; here is how that pivot turned it into one of Nigeria's dominant fintechs.

How This African Fintech Moves $40B a Year In and Out of Africa

Founder Ola Oyetayo explains how his fintech routes forty billion dollars of cross-border B2B payments yearly, challenging the banks, correspondent networks and SWIFT that still carry most African flows.

How Do Money Transfer Apps Like LemFi Actually Make Money?

Capital Journal explains how money-transfer apps like LemFi actually earn their keep, breaking down the economics of moving part of Africa's 100-billion-dollar remittance flow.

MTN Mobile Money - How Africa Built a FinTech Empire That Redefined Cashless Economies!

The story of MTN MoMo, a telecom add-on from 2009 that grew into continental financial infrastructure serving forty million users and moving billions in annual cashless transactions.

How Moniepoint Became Nigeria’s Fintech Giant

A documentary on Moniepoint's rise from startup to Nigerian fintech heavyweight, built on agency banking and merchant tools that brought financial services to millions of small traders.

How Opay Crushed Nigeria’s Biggest Banks

An investigation into OPay, the Chinese-backed super-app that outgrew Nigeria's established banks through payments, transfers and ride-hailing, and the ownership question behind its dominance.

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.