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- 14 Feb 2025
Visa Launches Report on Digital Payment Landscape in Nigeria, Shows Positive Outlook
Visa, a global leader in payments, today announced the launch of a new report, ‘Value of Acceptance: Understanding the Digital Payment Landscape in Nigeria,’ which highlights substantial growth…
- 30 Apr 2019
How Digital Payment is Disrupting Traditional Payment System
By Adeniyi Ogunfowoke, Digital payment is no doubt the future as more and more Nigerians embrace it. This is because whether we like it or not, the era of carrying or paying cash will soon come to an…
- 17 Oct 2018
World Payments Report Shows Strong Consumer Demand for Digital Payments
Digital payments are experiencing a boom, according to the World Payments Report 2018 launched by Capgemini and BNP Paribas. The report forecasts that noncash transactions will post a compound annual…
- 21 Jan 2021
Mastercard and Network International Launch Digital Platform to Accelerate Digital Payment Adoption Across MEA
Mastercard, a technology leader in the global payments industry, and its strategic partner, Network International, the leading enabler of digital commerce in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region,…
- 12 May 2022
Interswitch Gets $110m Funding to Scale Digital Payment Services
Interswitch, a digital payments company, has secured a $110 million in joint investment from LeapFrog Investments and Tana Africa Capital to scale its digital payment services across Africa. Mitchell…
- 27 Mar 2023
Verve Partners Alcineo on SoftPOS to Boost Contactless Digital Payment
Verve, Africa’s payment cards and digital token brand, has partnered with Alcineo, a provider of payment software and services, to deploy a software point-of-sale (SoftPOS) SDK solution. This…
- 15 Mar 2023
37 Percent of Users in Nigeria Lost Money from an Incident Involving Digital Payments
According to the Kaspersky Digital Payment survey, 37% of respondents from Nigeria experienced financial losses associated with threats when using online banking and mobile wallet services. The…
- 1 Jan 2019
Ecobank Chooses MFS Africa as Digital Payment Partner
Ecobank chooses MFS Africa as digital payment partner – Ecobank recently announced the appointment of MFS Africa as their Digital payment partner enabling cross-platform payment services for Ecobank…
- 13 May 2018
Ecobank Unveils Unified Digital Payment Solution
A multi-featured digital payment solution, Ecobank Pay, is now available from Ecobank Nigeria. Ecobank Pay is built as a core part of Ecobank’s digital financial services ecosystem approach…
- 6 Mar 2019
The Future of Digital Payment is Now
By Adeniyi Ogunfowoke, Digital payment has evolved beyond what happened in the past. Before its revolution, Nigerians had to carry cash around to pay for transactions, buy airtime, or even pay for…
- 19 Nov 2023
ZojaPay Launches to Revolutionize Digital Payment in Nigeria
ZojaPay, a digital payment app has launched into Nigeria's financial landscape to enable Nigerians process transactions effortlessly and efficiently using their mobile devices. The launch heralded a…
- 25 Mar 2025
Mastercard Announces Bold Investments to Propel Africa's Digital Payments Economy Towards $1.5 Trillion Goal by 2030
Africa’s digital payments economy is set to grow from strength to strength according to a Mastercard-commissioned report by Genesis Analytics stating that the digital payments economy is expected to…
- 1 Jul 2017
Global Digital Payments to Reach $3.6tn in 2017
Global digital payments will reach $3.6 trillion this year, according to a Juniper Research report titled "Strategies for Payment Providers: Opportunities, Risks & Competition 2017-2021". It…
- 24 Mar 2025
Visa Study Highlights Increased Security Awareness as Digital Payments Thrive Across CEMEA
A new study commissioned by Visa reveals a rise in consumer awareness and proactive security measures for digital payments across Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA). The…
- 20 Mar 2025
FIRS Partners Flutterwave for Digital Payment Collection
Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company, is now enabling digital tax collections for the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), making it one of the few fintechs supporting the…
- 5 Mar 2021
Access Bank Unveils SWIFTPAY, Digital Payment Service for SMEs
Access bank Plc has unveiled SWIFTPAY, a digital payment service that facilitates the receipt of business payments by enabling customers make quick, easy and secure digital payments on social media…
- 19 May 2016
How Digital ‘Wallets’ Payments To Ebola Workers Saved Lives, $10m- UN
Mobile phones serving as digital “wallets” for payments to response workers proved an invaluable tool in Sierra Leone’s response to the Ebola crisis, according to a new study from the United…
- 27 Sept 2024
Mastercard, KaiOS Technologies Partner to Democratize Digital Payment for millions of SMEs
KaiOS Technologies, a leading operating system that brings the best of the internet to affordable devices, today announced a collaboration with Mastercard to integrate a range of digital payments…
- 20 Feb 2025
Digital Payments Fuel Growth for Nigerian SMEs: Mastercard Report Highlights Trends
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria are leveraging digital payments, innovation, and partnerships to expand their reach and strengthen business operations, according to the third edition…
- 15 Jul 2024
Collaboration and Investment Key to Strengthening Africa’s Digital Payments Cybersecurity
By Omotayo Ogunlade, Chief Technology Officer at Onafriq As the digital payments landscape in Africa expands, the need for robust cybersecurity measures becomes increasingly urgent. Trust and…
- 3 Aug 2026
Nigerians Lost N25.85Bn to Digital Payment Fraud in 2025 –CBN
Nigerians lost N25.85 billion to digital payment fraud in 2025, according to Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Though the figure represents a significant decline from the N52.26 billion recorded in…
- 4 Sept 2017
MasterCard, Visa to Dominate Digital Payments Market - Report
Forthcoming strategies from payment network operators Visa and MasterCard will be the main drivers of growth in the digital payments markets. This is according to a newly released Juniper whitepaper:…
- 24 Apr 2023
Kaspersky Paints a Grim Picture of Nigeria’s Digital Payments
The latest report by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has painted a grim picture of Nigeria’s digital payments ecosystem, revealing 37% of respondents in its study suffered financial losses last year.…
- 12 Jan 2021
Digital merchant payments can help de-risk local business environments: here’s how
By Murray Gardiner, Managing Director, Bluecode Africa Over the course of the past 12 months, the world has learned a lot about uncertainty. The financial space is no exception, having gone…
- 14 Aug 2026
Mastercard, TeamApt Collaborate to Expand Digital Payments Across Africa
Mastercard and TeamApt Ltd., a subsidiary of Moniepoint Inc. and a provider of financial infrastructure and payment solutions, have entered a strategic collaboration to strengthen digital payment…
- 7 Feb 2023
RoutePay Secures Licence to Provide Digital Payment Solutions
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted Full Operating Licence to RoutePay Fintech Limited to provide digital payment solutions in Nigeria. The apex bank in a letter to RoutePay titled,…
- 30 Mar 2026
Interswitch Deepens Strategic Partnership with KCB Group to Advance Digital Payments and Financial Inclusion
Interswitch, Africa-focused integrated payments and digital commerce enabler, has reaffirmed and expanded its longstanding partnership with KCB Group within the East Africa region, marking a…
- 4 May 2023
Building Trust in Digital Payments in Africa
By Mark Dankworth, While cash and mobile money remain the dominant payment methods in Africa, they come with significant challenges. Mark Dankworth, president of Business Development Africa at…
- 28 Jun 2026
ACAMB, NIBSS Unite to Drive Faster, Cheaper Digital Payments in Nigeria
Association of Corporate Communication and Marketing Professionals in Banks (ACAMB) has urged banks to deepen the adoption of digital payment channels, including QR code payments, following a…
- 7 Oct 2024
Better Digital Payments Infrastructure is Facilitating Access to New Markets for Enterprise
By Doreen Lukandwa, Head, Commercial Strategy at Onafriq Saying that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of economies in East Africa is an understatement. SMEs make up the…