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- 30 Jun 2026
Verve Strengthens Global Acceptance Across Leading Digital Platforms
Verve International, Africa’s payment cards and digital solutions brand, is strengthening its global acceptance footprint through strategic partnerships with leading digital platforms, reinforcing…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 22 Jul 2024
How Platforms and Payments are Driving Commerce in Africa
Is cash still king? Perhaps, but the acceptance and use of digital channels across Africa are rapidly increasing, experiencing their highest adoption rate in history. Currently, Africa is one of the…
- 25 Oct 2022
Global Digital Commerce Market: Mastercard, Cellulant Partner to Empower Millions of Consumers across Africa
Mastercard and Cellulant have partnered to allow millions of Cellulant customers across Africa to shop and pay online with global merchants wherever Mastercard is accepted. The partnership will…
- 5 Mar 2025
Airtel Africa, Mastercard Launch New Digital Payment Solution for SmartCash Customers
Airtel Mobile Commerce BV, a subsidiary of Airtel Africa PLC, is thrilled to announce the launch of the Airtel Money GlobalPay Card, a new payment solution designed to connect Airtel Money customers…
- 30 Apr 2025
5 tips to start taking digital payments as a business in Africa
Not long ago, cash was dominant in Africa, but digital payments are now rapidly gaining traction. From Lagos to Kenya and the US, businesses are recognising that embracing digital methods is…
- 9 Sept 2021
Chat 2 Pay by Clickatell Enables Brands to Extend Digital Commerce Offering
Clickatell, a leader in mobile communications and chat commerce, has launches Chat 2 Pay. Chat 2 Pay takes Clickatell’s decades of developing chat commerce solutions for global customers and delivers…
- 16 Jun 2015
Mahindra Comviva Enhances payPLUS for Omni-Channel Payment Acceptance
Mahindra Comviva, the global leader in providing mobility solutions, has announced the launch of enhanced edition of payPLUS with a full blown omni-channel offering by enabling in app and web based…
- 14 Oct 2021
Clickatell to Unveil Chat Commerce Platform with New Payment Capabilities
Clickatell, a leader in mobile communications and chat commerce, announced it will unveil new payment capabilities via its Chat Commerce Platform at Money 20/20 Las Vegas, Oct. 24-27. Clickatell…
- 8 May 2026
MasterCard, BMONI Partner to Improve Digital Payments
MasterCard and BMONI, an artificial intelligence-powered financial platform, are working to launch a new generation of virtual and physical payment cards that will enable Nigerian customers to…
- 8 Oct 2019
Airtel Partners Mastercard to Connect 100 Million Consumers with Digital Payments Access
Airtel Africa has announced a partnership with Mastercard, giving over 100 million Airtel Africa mobile phone users across 14 African countries access to Mastercard’s global network. The…
- 8 Oct 2019
Airtel Africa, Mastercard Partner for Digital Payments
Airtel Africa has announced a partnership with Mastercard, giving over 100 million Airtel Africa mobile phone users across 14 African countries access to Mastercard’s global network. The…
- 17 Jan 2019
Konga, Visa Partner to Drive Value Offerings in E-Commerce Sector
E-commerce giant Konga has partnered with Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments to revolutionize the e-commerce sector in Nigeria. By leveraging the delivery of digital and secure payments…
- 26 May 2020
PayPal Quarterly Payments Jump 85% in 3 Years to Hit 3.2Bn in March 2020
Smart devices and a booming global eCommerce market have driven the rapid adoption of digital payments worldwide. Digital payments have changed the payment industry traditionally dominated by cash…
- 3 May 2016
Visa Launches Digital Payments for Expected 1.2m Travelers at Rio 2016
Visa on Tuesday celebrated the 100 day milestone to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. In its 30th year as the exclusive payment provider of the Olympic Games, Visa is creating and managing the entire…
- 23 Oct 2015
Interswitch, Visa Partner for Payment on Quickteller
Interswitch, Africa’s leading digital payments and commerce provider, announces that its multi-channel payment platform Quickteller, is now fully integrated with Visa and can accept all Visa…
- 9 Aug 2016
Mastercard, PAYFORT Collabo on E-Commerce, M-Payment Solutions in ME
With the Middle East anticipating a significant growth in e-commerce in the coming years, Mastercard, a leading technology company in the global payments industry, and PAYFORT, the Arab world’s…
- 26 Feb 2025
Visa Eyes $1.3 Trillion Digital Opportunity in Africa
Africa’s digital payments landscape holds immense potential, with $1.3 trillion in cash transactions across the continent yet to be digitized. This is according to Visa, which provided insights on…
- 25 Jan 2022
Mastercard Rolls out ‘Tap on Phone’ Tech in Africa
Payment products and services company Network International, together with Mastercard, is rolling out ‘Tap on Phone’ technology across the Middle East and Africa, to expand digital payment…
- 30 Jan 2024
Mastercard, Boost collaborate to power small businesses in Africa
Global payments technology company, Mastercard and B2B commerce platform, Boost, have collaborated to provide digital payment wallets and embedded supply chain finance to empower and expand small…
- 8 Jul 2022
Flocash and Visa Partner to Promote Digital Capabilities for African SMEs
Visa, a world leader in digital payments, announced today that it is partnering with Flocash, FT Africa’s fastest growing fintech 2022, to promote digital capabilities for African SMEs through…
- 8 Dec 2021
Flutterwave, 4DX Ventures Co-invest in Francophone Africa Payments Processor CinetPay
CinetPay, a digital finance platform that enables merchants in Francophone Africa to seamlessly accept and make payments, has announced a $2.4 million seed fundraising round from 4DX Ventures and…
- 13 Jan 2022
B2B E-commerce: Consolidating Nigeria’s Digital Economy Blueprint
The Nigerian digital economy holds immense potential for the overall growth of the economy. In recent years, the government and other stakeholders have woken up to the possible contribution of the…
- 29 Oct 2019
Verve Card Now Accepted in Ghana
Verve, a leading payments technology and card business in Africa, has partnered with the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems Limited (GhIPSS) to launch acceptance in Ghana. This initiative…
- 15 Jul 2026
Jumia Seeks for Payment Harmonisation, Stronger Policies to Boost Africa's Digital Trade
Jumia Nigeria has reaffirmed its role as one of the leading forces driving the adoption of e-commerce in Nigeria, saying sustained investment in consumer trust, local logistics and digital…