Finance & Services

Ecobank's senior fintech adviser answers our questions about the potential of fintech in African banking.

Funds are pouring in from multilateral institutions and capital markets, but will the third wave of Covid-19 undermine Kenya’s recovery?

Nairobi-based lender M-KOPA is expanding into the Nigerian market, and have hired an ex-Andela executive for the job.

StoneX is working with institutions to modernise the continent’s payments systems. Beatrice Pechtl – StoneX head of Correspondent Banking, EMEA, and David Unsdorfer – Senior VP, StoneX Technology Services, EMEA & APAC, answer our questions about the business and its relations…

Enhanced participation of women in economies could be the difference between countries emerging successfully or not from the Covid-19 and climate-change induced downturns.

Orbitt provides our readers with an overview of its platform activity, as well as an analysis of the flow of goods and services from corporates in both East and West Africa seeking funding on the Orbitt platform.

Rethinking their relationships with private lenders is key to achieving sustainable debt for African countries, say Isaac Fukuo and Bathsheba Asati of Botho Emerging Markets Group.

Africa stands to suffer more than other continents from the effects of climate change. African countries need to exercise their policy muscles as norm-makers in global policy collaboration.