Cameroonian fintech startup Koree has won USD 50 K in cash after winning top prize at the annual Ecobank Fintech Challenge. The fintech is also the first ever female-led winner of the c… Read More

Koree, a Cameroonian fintech company, emerged as the winner of the 2023 Ecobank Fintech Challenge, marking the first time a female-led fintech has claimed the top prize. The competition… Read More

A Kenyan startup duo is entangled in a legal dispute with one of the country’s established lenders Ecobank Kenya over the ownership of the bank’s popular savings platform, &lsquo… Read More

This year’s Ecobank Fintech Challenge has attracted entries from nearly 1,500 fintech businesses from 64 countries across Africa and beyond. Eight finalists have been shortlisted an… Read More

Applications are currently invited from interested and intellectual candidates to apply for Ecobank Fintech Challenge 2023. The Challenge is open to all Fintechs on the African continen… Read More

United Nations Young Professionals Programme (YPP) 2024 for Young Graduates. The 2024 application phase of the United Nations Young Professionals Programme (YPP) is ongoing and applications… Read More

Six African fintech companies have been declared finalists of this year’s Ecobank Fintech Challenge, and will now compete for a top price of US$50,000 and admission to the Ecobank Fint… Read More

Four years after it was founded, the Nigerian University of Technology and Management (NUTM) has secured licence from the National Universities Commission (NUC) to operate in the country. "W… Read More

EcoBank Fintech Challenge for Programmers and Developers in Africa 2022 » 👤 Eligibility: In General Competitions for Africans, Innovators, Startups (RSS) 🕡 Dea… Read More

LOMÉ, Togo, August 25, 2022 Pan-African banking group, Ecobank Group, has launched the fifth edition of the Ecobank Fintech Challenge and encourages African Fintech entrepreneurs to e… Read More

Trove Finance’s app enables African-based financial institutions and individuals to buy, sell and trade any publicly traded equity, bond or exchange traded fund across US, Chinese, Nig… Read More

According to the World Economic Forum, artificial intelligence (AI) can contribute up to USD 15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030. However, in Africa, AI market growth has stagnated… Read More

In September 2022, the Lagos state government received the delivery of two TALGO Serie 8 trains for the Lagos rail mass transit—a rapid transit system that will cater for transportatio… Read More

Only 5 to 7% of all payment transactions are made through digital channels, this is according to a 2022 report by McKinsey on the future of payments in Africa. Despite the booming fintech in… Read More

NITDA Calling On Parents To Apply For Stem Bootcamp For Kids 2022 » The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Com… Read More

Tanzanian payments startup Nala has been named the winner of the annual Ecobank Fintech Challenge, winning US$10,000 in prize money. Nala, which helps mobile money users evolve from a text-b… Read More

Ecobank: Fintech Focuses More on Payments, Not Wealth Creation – The Managing Director of Ecobank Nigeria Limited, Mr Patrick Akinwuntan, has challenged financial technology compa… Read More

Nigeria and Finland-based ZirooPay announced that its has raised $11.4 million to scale its POS operations across Nigeria. The fundraising was led by by Lagos-based VC fund Zrosk Invest… Read More

Ecobank, Microsoft, Others Train SMEs in Digital Skills – Ecobank Group in partnership with Microsoft, LinkedIn, GitHub and Ecobank Academy is set to provide training to equip Sma… Read More

More loans coming for MSMEs, say Ecobank, LSETF – Ecobank Nigeria and the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) have partnered to make more loans available to   micr… Read More