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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
A judicial bombshell unwinding a $1.6 billion Safaricom stake in Nairobi and a massive industry pushback against South African capital controls headline today's briefing.
Stablecoin orchestration is abstracting the complexity of multi-chain routing away from the merchant checkout. Flutterwave is deploying a dynamic settlement architecture across African trade corridors…
The prospect of a unified BRICS currency is officially off the table. Adopting the New Delhi Declaration, member states have instead committed to a decentralized local-currency settlement framework. T…
Continental clearing systems are accelerating their drive into North Africa, with the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System now targeting 60 percent of Egypt's outbound cross-border flows. This br…
Multi-currency settlement is pushing past bilateral agreements into massive regional scale. The Pan-African Payment and Settlement System has formally crossed into 30 nations, slashing cross-border FX…
Today on The Settlement Layer: the Central Bank of Nigeria issues a systemic risk warning for third-party payment vendors, while regional clearing networks integrate the Angolan kwanza to bypass forei…
For multi-currency gateways operating in West Africa, the compliance landscape just bifurcated. The Bank of Ghana is moving to mandate 1:1 commercial bank reserves for cedi-backed stablecoins while st…
Global stablecoin issuers are accelerating their acquisition of localized fiat payout routes to bypass correspondent banking friction entirely. This briefing also covers Egypt's push for direct PAPSS …
Nigerian Tier-1 banks are reopening international dollar card spending limits up to $40,000 following a stabilization in Central Bank FX reserves. Elsewhere on the continent, Central Africa is unifyin…
The execution window for cross-border African trade is collapsing. PAPSS has accelerated its clearing time down to seven seconds, arriving just as regulators across Ghana, Mauritius, and Uganda draft …