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Circle and Sasai Fintech Collaborate to Expand Access to USDC Across Africa

Circle Internet Group, Inc., the company behind the widely adopted US Dollar Coin (USDC), has entered into a new strategic collaboration with Sasai Fintech,...

Central Bank of Nigeria Selects Six Entities for New Virtual Asset Pilot – Africa Bitcoin News

Six VASPs Tapped for New Supervisory Pilot The Central Bank of Nigeria has officially launched an anti-money laundering and counter-financing of terrorism supervisory pilot...

PawaPay and Deriv Join Forces to Scale Mobile Money Deposits Across Africa

PawaPay, a leading pan-African payments aggregator, has officially partnered with the online trading platform Deriv to support mobile money deposits across multiple African markets....

Western Union and Sasai Fintech Launch International Money Transfer App for South Africa

Western Union and Sasai Fintech, a Cassava Technologies company, have launched a new international money transfer mobile app tailored specifically for consumers in South...

Bitcoin Is ‘Money’ in Parts of Africa, Says Africa Bitcoin Corp Chair

Stafford Masie, executive chairman of Africa Bitcoin Corporation, said Tuesday that Bitcoin functions as everyday money in parts of Africa rather than primarily as...

South Africa Tax Collector Deploys New Tech to Track Crypto and Offshore Assets

South African crypto-asset service providers must now transmit detailed transaction data directly to the revenue collector, allowing for precise automated reconciliation and targeted audits....

Visa Targets North Africa Growth with new Egypt, Libya and Sudan Sub-Region

Visa, the global digital payments company, has established a new sub-regional structure comprising Egypt, Libya, and Sudan.The move forms a key part of Visa’s...

South Africa Moves to Bring Cryptocurrencies Under Capital Flow Controls

South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has announced plans to end the country’s crypto regulatory vacuum by drafting new rules to integrate digital assets...

10x Banking and HassemPrag Partner to Drive Core Banking Modernisation Across Africa

Cloud-native core banking provider 10x Banking has partnered with South African digital banking platform HassemPrag. The collaboration aims to provide African financial institutions with...

Africrypt Founders Return to South Africa After Years in Hiding: Report

South Africa’s so-called “Bitcoin Brothers,” Raees and Ameer Cajee, have quietly returned to the country years after the collapse of their crypto investment platform...

botim money Partners with TerraPay to Expand Global Remittance Reach, Focusing on Africa

botim money, the financial services arm of the MENA region’s Ultra app botim, has partnered with global money movement network TerraPay to expand its...