As an entrepreneur operating across various African countries, I've experienced firsthand the challenges and opportunities in the continent's evolving banking sector. From the bustling streets of ...

Identity, credit scoring and liability all assume a human customer – an assumption agentic artificial intelligence is ...

South Africa’s neobanking space is expanding, and OM Bank is leveraging its already powerful foothold in insurance and ...

This deal represents one of the few significant exits in African fintech and signals something much bigger. Africa’s payments landscape just shifted. Flutterwave—the continent’s largest fintech ...

Nigerian financial services group United Capital has deepened its pan-African expansion drive after securing investment banking licences in Ethiopia and Rwanda, becoming the first foreign institution ...

Development Finance Club, Finance in Common and the Africa Investment Forum. Admassu Tadesse: African banking has been through quite a journey over the past couple of decades. It has strengthened. Now ...

As one of the largest unbanked regions in the world, with low bank branch penetration and a surging increase in smartphone adoption, Africa is primed to become one of the largest and most innovative ...

African Development Bank Group approves $125 million investment in African Trade and Investment Development Insurance (ATIDI) ...

The countdown has begun. At the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) upcoming annual meetings on 26-30 May in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, the name of Akinwumi Adesina’s successor will finally be known. He or ...

The African Development Bank Group (Bank Group) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) have signed a $87 million Boosting Agrifood Systems Resilience in Sudan Project, to strengthen food systems and ...

Africa today is the world’s youngest continent, with a growing population and several fast-growing economies, but significant challenges, including the need for regulatory reform in banking and ...

The AfDB has outlined the scale of its support for Morocco’s energy transition, pointing to major investments in renewable energy.