Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for about three-quarters of the $2.1 trillion global mobile money market in 2025, a GSMA report ...

Sending money across African borders has been and remains one of the most expensive financial transactions in the world. A ...

Despite its leading role in advancing financial inclusion on a continent where banking penetration remains low, mobile money still faces major structural barriers that limit its full potential. Yet ...

Mobile money transactions in Africa reached $1.43 trillion in 2025, up 27%; Continent accounts for 66% of global transaction value and 74% of volume; East and West Africa lead, wh ...

In Nigeria, the war against corruption was the centerpiece of the successful 2015 presidential campaign of Muhammadu Buhari. On June 5, acting President Yeni Osinbajo (Buhari is on medical leave in ...

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 27 (Reuters) - China's role as a leading ‌financier to developing nations has shifted over ‌the past decade, with new loans to poorer countries falling sharply while debt repayments ...

A new remittance tax set to begin in the new year has one university student reeling from the implications it will have for her family in Nigeria. Edidiong Chrys, a second-generation Nigerian American ...

For more than a decade, the idea of a truly integrated African market has hovered somewhere between political aspiration and economic inevitability. With the African Continental Free Trade Area ...

We’re talking about the largest African banks here, and how they’re preparing for what’s next. It’s a complex picture, with local reforms mixing with global trends, and there’s a lot to unpack. Global ...

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, said the country’s hosting of the African Monetary Institute and later the African Central Bank will place it at the centre of ...

A strong currency is able to benefit an African economy in various ways, including in trade, investment, and macroeconomic ...

A gauge of expected volatility for the rand versus the dollar is at its lowest level since the turn of the century, suggesting traders expect little upheaval for the South African currency as the year ...