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- 30 Jul 2019
DPO Group Rattles Africa's e-commerce Space with PayFast Acquisition
Pan-African payment service provider and Kenya-based DPO Group has acquired South African payment processor PayFast for an undisclosed sum. The deal by the Nairobi-headquartered DPO Group was backed…
- 23 Jan 2022
DPO Group Secures Licence to Provide Payments Services in Nigeria
One Payment Limited, a subsidiary of the leading Pan-African digital payments group, DPO Group has been granted a licence by the Central Bank of Nigeria to provide certain types of payments services…
- 25 Apr 2022
DPO Group Enables USSD Payment Option in Nigeria
African digital payments company DPO Group has added a new form of payment that will allow merchants to get paid by their customers via a USSD code. According to information released to the media,…
- 23 Sept 2020
Mastercard Announces Fintech Express to Empower MEA Fintechs to Launch and Expand Rapidly
Mastercard has launched Fintech Express in the Middle East and Africa (MEA), a program designed to facilitate emerging fintechs’ launch and expansion. Leveraging the power of partnerships and…
- 25 Jan 2021
Disclosed VC Investments in Africa Reached $2.4bn in 2020
The estimated value of the disclosed mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market in Africa was $1.12 billion in 2020, with fintech start-ups accounting for over nine-tenths of total M&A volumes.…
- 11 Feb 2021
African Startup Investments Fall for First Time in Almost a Decade
Funding for African startups slowed for the first time after nearly 10 years of growth as investors in the fledgling tech scene were put off by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to venture capital…
- 31 Oct 2018
Bademosi, Credit Switch Technology Boss Hacked to Death by Cook
Ope Bademosi, chairman of Credit Switch Technology, a Nigerian tech company, was murdered in the early hours of Wednesday. Bademosi was reportedly found in a pool of blood with multiple stab…
- 16 Apr 2023
Team HealthWaka Beat Allcomers to Clinch Top Prize @SecureHack 1.0
Eko Innovation Centre, one of the leading tech hubs in Nigeria, recently played host to the grand finale of SecureHack 1.0, a hackathon designed to drive tech innovations across three thematic areas:…
- 16 Apr 2023
Winners Emerge At Secure Hack 1.0 As Stakeholders Chart Course for Security @Eko Innovation Centre
Three teams emerged as winners at the grand finale of the SecureHack 1.0 event held at the Eko Innovation Centre, yesterday. L-R: First Keynote Speaker, Oluwasolape Akinde, Head Governance, Risk and…
- 7 Aug 2020
Nigeria Leads Other African Countries in Data Protection – DG-NITDA
As Nigeria continue to record success in Data Protection Regulation, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, director general, National Information Technology Agency (NITDA), said that, the country has recorded…