In this episode

• Kenyan High Court Nullifies Vodacom's $1.6B Safaricom Stake Acquisition — A three-judge bench of Kenya's High Court nullified the government's KSh204.3 billion ($1.6 billion) sale of a 15…
• South African Crypto Coalition Challenges SARB Outflow Rules and Wallet Restrictions — The CATASTROPHE crypto coalition we tracked forming last week has expanded to 171 organizations—including VALR, Luno…
• Movement Strategy Focuses B2B Stablecoin Settlement on Kenyan VASP Framework — In commentary published on Tuesday, September 15, Movement CEO Torab Torabi detailed plans to integrate invisible B2B…
• dLocal Deploys Oscilar Agentic AI for Multi-Jurisdiction Compliance Across Emerging Markets — Cross-border payment processor dLocal integrated Oscilar's AI-native agentic risk platform on Wednesday, September 16…
• Anchor Launches Cards 2.0 API to Solve Virtual USD Card Reliability in Nigeria — Nigerian financial infrastructure provider Anchor relaunched its card issuing stack as Cards 2.0 on Tuesday, September…
• South African Online Retail Reaches R159B as Payment Security and Delivery Barriers Persist — The Online Retail in South Africa 2026 report published on Tuesday, September 15, projects e-commerce spending will…
• Africhange Secures Ghana IMTO Licence Under Heightened BoG Regulatory Framework — Cross-border payment provider Africhange secured an International Money Transfer Operator (IMTO) license from the Bank…
• Stanbic Bank Ghana Launches Direct CIPS RMB Settlement Corridor for China Trade — Following the Bank of Ghana authorization we tracked in August, Stanbic Bank Ghana formally deployed its Cross-Border…
• Metadata Risk Analytics Target Mobile Money Conversion Gaps Beyond Card Typologies — Data released by risk vendor Flexifai on Tuesday, September 15, highlights that average mobile money transaction…
• Comparative Audit Benchmark Highlights Gateway Pricing and Settlement Dynamics in Nigeria — A market audit published by BusinessDay on Tuesday, September 15, analyzed competitive positioning across seven major…
• Moniepoint Outlines Dynamic Routing Engine for Issuing Bank Outage Isolation — At an engineering summit in Lagos on Tuesday, September 15, Moniepoint detailed the distributed systems architecture…
• Legal Debates Challenge EFCC Authority Over Foreign Currency Contracting in Nigeria — Legal analysis published by senior advocates on Tuesday, September 15, challenged recent warnings from the Economic and…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:03 South African Crypto Coalition Challenges SARB Outflow Rules and Wallet Restric…
01:57 Movement Strategy Focuses B2B Stablecoin Settlement on Kenyan VASP Framework
02:47 dLocal Deploys Oscilar Agentic AI for Multi-Jurisdiction Compliance Across Emer…
03:27 Anchor Launches Cards 2.0 API to Solve Virtual USD Card Reliability in Nigeria
04:10 South African Online Retail Reaches R159B as Payment Security and Delivery Barr…
04:48 Africhange Secures Ghana IMTO Licence Under Heightened BoG Regulatory Framework
05:24 Stanbic Bank Ghana Launches Direct CIPS RMB Settlement Corridor for China Trade
06:04 Metadata Risk Analytics Target Mobile Money Conversion Gaps Beyond Card Typolog…
06:42 Comparative Audit Benchmark Highlights Gateway Pricing and Settlement Dynamics…
07:23 Moniepoint Outlines Dynamic Routing Engine for Issuing Bank Outage Isolation
08:01 Legal Debates Challenge EFCC Authority Over Foreign Currency Contracting in Nig…
08:42 Wrap-up

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In this episode

• Flutterwave Scales Multi-Rail Stablecoin Routing Architecture Across African Corridors — Flutterwave is expanding its stablecoin orchestration layer across its Send App and enterprise merchant products…
• Zambian Fintech Zoyk Obtains Central Bank Clearance for DRC Aggregation — Zambian fintech Zoyk received formal authorization from the Banque Centrale du Congo on Thursday, September 10, to…
• South Africa Relaxes Exchange Control Discretionary Allowances and Card Limits — South African monetary authorities updated exchange control rules on Monday, September 14, doubling the Single…
• Enza and Fraudio Embed Native AI Fraud Detection Across African Payment Rails — Payment infrastructure firm Enza partnered with risk vendor Fraudio on Monday, September 14, to integrate…
• Nigerian Banks Outline Operational Rules for PAPSS Cross-Border B2B Settlement — Adding to the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System rollout we've been tracking—most recently its linkage with…
• INTERPOL Cybercrime Report Cites $484M African Losses Driven by Synthetic AI Fraud — INTERPOL's 2026 African Cyberthreat Assessment Report published on Monday, September 14, reveals that artificial…
• Divergent East African Court Rulings Set Liability Benchmarks for Mobile Account Fraud — Recent judicial rulings in Kenya and Uganda have established contrasting precedents for bank liability in digital fraud…
• Equator Finance Launches Multi-Currency Settlement Desk for East and Southern Africa — Kampala-based Equator Finance launched a single-integration counterparty desk on Monday, September 14, providing…
• Nigeria NCC Schedules October Operational Launch for TIRMS Anti-Fraud Platform — The Nigerian Communications Commission announced on Monday, September 14, that its Telecommunications Identity Risk…
• SARS Tightens Data Audits and Penalty Rules for 2026 Tax Season — The South African Revenue Service expanded its automated tax assessment pipeline on Monday, September 14…
• CBN Data Reveals 476 Net Bank Branch Closures Amid Shift to Digital Payment Channels — Central Bank of Nigeria statistical data published on Monday, September 14, reveals that commercial banks closed a net…
• Cashfree Launches Checkout360 Suite Featuring AI Cash-on-Delivery Risk Scoring — Following its rollout of the Relay AI agent suite we tracked in August, Cashfree Payments introduced Checkout360 during…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:26 Zambian Fintech Zoyk Obtains Central Bank Clearance for DRC Aggregation
02:14 South Africa Relaxes Exchange Control Discretionary Allowances and Card Limits
03:07 Enza and Fraudio Embed Native AI Fraud Detection Across African Payment Rails
03:55 Nigerian Banks Outline Operational Rules for PAPSS Cross-Border B2B Settlement
04:45 INTERPOL Cybercrime Report Cites $484M African Losses Driven by Synthetic AI Fr…
05:33 Divergent East African Court Rulings Set Liability Benchmarks for Mobile Accoun…
06:21 Equator Finance Launches Multi-Currency Settlement Desk for East and Southern A…
07:09 Nigeria NCC Schedules October Operational Launch for TIRMS Anti-Fraud Platform
07:52 SARS Tightens Data Audits and Penalty Rules for 2026 Tax Season
08:43 CBN Data Reveals 476 Net Bank Branch Closures Amid Shift to Digital Payment Cha…
09:33 Cashfree Launches Checkout360 Suite Featuring AI Cash-on-Delivery Risk Scoring
10:24 Wrap-up

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In this episode

• SARB Penalizes Capitec and Ninety One R34 Million Over FICA Compliance Lapses — The Prudential Authority within the South African Reserve Bank imposed R34 million in total administrative penalties on…
• NIBSS Unveils Maiden Digest Outlining ISO 20022 National Payment Stack — The Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System published the maiden edition of 'NIBSS Digest' on Sunday, September 13…
• Savannah Software Audit Outlines Remediation for Kenya's 85% Mobile Cart Abandonment — A technical operational audit published by Savannah Software Solutions on Monday, September 14, reveals that mobile…
• Central Bank of Kenya Issues Warning on Unmonitored AI Credit Decisioning — The Central Bank of Kenya issued an official warning to commercial banks on Sunday, September 13, regarding the…
• Stripe Releases Radar 4.0 Featuring Behavioral Biometrics and SKU-Level Risk Scoring — Stripe rolled out Radar 4.0, featuring real-time adaptive machine learning, client-side behavioral biometrics…
• BRICS Summit Formally Rejects Common Currency in Favor of Local-Currency Settlement Rails — Following up on the multi-CBDC translation architecture proposed by India at the New Delhi BRICS summit that we tracked…
• Nigeria Electronic Payments Top N1.05 Quadrillion as Fiber Cuts Threaten Network Uptime — Central Bank of Nigeria data released on Sunday, September 13, shows electronic payment values reached N1.053…
• Lesaka Outlines Merchant Division Turnaround Strategy Following Adumo Integration — Fintech group Lesaka Technologies detailed a four-point turnaround plan on Sunday, September 13, for its merchant…
• Verto CEO Identifies Regulatory Compliance as Core Moat in Cross-Border Settlement — In an operational interview on Sunday, September 13, Verto Co-Founder and CEO Ola Oyetayo argued that regulatory…
• Remita Powers Digital Subscription Rails for Dangote Refinery's N2.15 Trillion IPO — Remita Payment Services Limited was selected as a primary digital distribution channel for the Initial Public Offering…
• POPIA Unique Identifier Mandates Create Compliance Friction for SA Merchant Analytics — A legal compliance advisory published on Sunday, September 13, warns South African organizations that using unique…
• Central Bank of Kenya Finalizes Systemically Important Bank Regulatory Framework — The Central Bank of Kenya published a draft Domestic Systemically Important Banks (D-SIBs) framework on Sunday…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:25 NIBSS Unveils Maiden Digest Outlining ISO 20022 National Payment Stack
02:13 Savannah Software Audit Outlines Remediation for Kenya's 85% Mobile Cart Abando…
03:01 Central Bank of Kenya Issues Warning on Unmonitored AI Credit Decisioning
03:49 Stripe Releases Radar 4.0 Featuring Behavioral Biometrics and SKU-Level Risk Sc…
04:33 BRICS Summit Formally Rejects Common Currency in Favor of Local-Currency Settle…
05:18 Nigeria Electronic Payments Top N1.05 Quadrillion as Fiber Cuts Threaten Networ…
06:02 Lesaka Outlines Merchant Division Turnaround Strategy Following Adumo Integrati…
06:44 Verto CEO Identifies Regulatory Compliance as Core Moat in Cross-Border Settlem…
07:27 Remita Powers Digital Subscription Rails for Dangote Refinery's N2.15 Trillion…
08:08 POPIA Unique Identifier Mandates Create Compliance Friction for SA Merchant Ana…
08:52 Central Bank of Kenya Finalizes Systemically Important Bank Regulatory Framework
09:32 Wrap-up

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In this episode

• Visa Stablecoin Settlement Reaches $20B Run Rate with Programmatic Credit Facilities — Visa disclosed on Saturday, September 12, that its annualized stablecoin settlement run rate surpassed $20 billion in…
• PAPSS Targets 60% of Egyptian Cross-Border Outflows via InstaPay Interoperability — Expanding on the PAPSS 30-country footprint and 1,000 percent volume surge we noted yesterday, CEO Mike Ogbalu III…
• Mastercard and Busha Deploy Crypto Credential Aliases Across Nigeria — Following Friday's rollout of the Mastercard Crypto Credential in Nigeria with SEC-licensed exchange Busha that we…
• Bitget Wallet Analysis Outlines Regulatory Tax Friction for Stablecoin Neobanks in Nigeria — Adding to the Nigerian digital asset tax framework we've been tracking, Bitget Wallet COO Alvin Kan published…
• Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International Outline Joint KYA Framework for Autonomous AI Commerce — Advancing the autonomous AI commerce standards we've tracked over the past month, Visa, Mastercard, and Ant…
• Fidelity Bank Scales Naira PAPSS Settlement Across 120-Second Commercial Corridors — Building on the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System expansion we tracked yesterday, commercial deployment reports…
• Central Bank of Nigeria Issues Systemic Cyber Risk Warning to Payment Vendors — Following up on the systemic cyber risk warning from Central Bank of Nigeria Payments System Supervision Director Dr.
• NFIU Advances Joint Public-Private Intelligence Framework with Banks and Fintechs — Following Thursday's introduction of the Joint Financial Intelligence Collaboration framework that we covered…
• Safaricom Issues 6-Step SIM Configuration Rules to Resolve Diaspora M-Pesa Login Blocks — Safaricom issued operational technical guidance on Saturday, September 12, to resolve widespread authentication…
• Latitude Raises $35M Series A to Build Regulated Fiat On- and Off-Ramp Network — Cross-border payment infrastructure startup Latitude announced a $35 million Series A round on September 9, led by Oak…
• India Proposes Interoperable CBDC Translation Layer for BRICS Cross-Border Clearing — At the New Delhi BRICS summit on Saturday, September 12, the Reserve Bank of India presented an architectural framework…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:15 PAPSS Targets 60% of Egyptian Cross-Border Outflows via InstaPay Interoperabili…
02:05 Mastercard and Busha Deploy Crypto Credential Aliases Across Nigeria
02:49 Bitget Wallet Analysis Outlines Regulatory Tax Friction for Stablecoin Neobanks…
03:35 Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International Outline Joint KYA Framework for Autonom…
04:21 Fidelity Bank Scales Naira PAPSS Settlement Across 120-Second Commercial Corrid…
05:05 Central Bank of Nigeria Issues Systemic Cyber Risk Warning to Payment Vendors
05:46 NFIU Advances Joint Public-Private Intelligence Framework with Banks and Fintec…
06:30 Safaricom Issues 6-Step SIM Configuration Rules to Resolve Diaspora M-Pesa Logi…
07:11 Latitude Raises $35M Series A to Build Regulated Fiat On- and Off-Ramp Network
07:52 India Proposes Interoperable CBDC Translation Layer for BRICS Cross-Border Clea…
08:35 Wrap-up

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In this episode

• PAPSS Crosses 30-Country Footprint as Transaction Volumes Surge 1,000 Percent — Following the PAPSS expansion we've been tracking, CEO Mike Ogbalu III disclosed at an industry briefing in Lagos on…
• Mastercard and Busha Deploy Verified Crypto Aliases in Nigeria — Mastercard partnered with pan-African digital asset exchange Busha on Friday, September 11, to launch the Mastercard…
• Kenya Banking Fraud Unit Probes Pesapal Over KES 24.5M Insider Wire Scheme — Detectives from Kenya's Banking Fraud Investigations Unit questioned a Pesapal executive on Friday, September 11…
• Sumsub Report Detects 269 Percent Deepfake Spike in South Africa — Expanding on the structural shift toward synthetic identities we tracked last month, Sumsub published new data on…
• Audit Reveals East African Mobile Money Corridors Impose 7 Percent Hidden FX Spreads — A field audit of cross-border mobile money transfers across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda published on Friday…
• PayU Ships AI Fraud Liability Protection for International Card Checkouts — At the Global Fintech Fest 2026 on Friday, September 11, PayU launched Fraud Liability Protect, an AI-driven security…
• Central Bank of Kenya Proposes Systemic Bank Capital Buffers and Growth Restrictions — The Central Bank of Kenya published draft regulatory guidelines on Thursday, September 10, establishing a Domestic…
• Federal High Court Sets October Trial for N98.5B Patent Suit Against NIBSS and CBN — A Federal High Court in Lagos adjourned a N98.5 billion patent infringement and breach-of-contract lawsuit against the…
• FATF Report Uncovers Widespread Crypto Travel Rule Non-Compliance Across West and Central Africa — Highlighting the fragmented regional compliance environments we've been tracking, the Financial Action Task Force…
• Kenya eTIMS Invoicing Enforcement Freezes KES 45 Billion in SME Tax Refund Claims — An industry report published on Friday, September 11, detailed that mandatory enforcement of Kenya's electronic Tax…
• Physical Cash Agent Networks Maintain 18 Percent Growth Across Major African Markets — A field analysis across Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana published on Friday, September 11, revealed that physical…
• Nigeria FX Utilization Reaches $50.9 Billion in 2025 as CBN Injects $151 Million — Adding to the FX liquidity metrics we have been tracking, Central Bank of Nigeria data released on Friday, September…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:30 PAPSS Crosses 30-Country Footprint as Transaction Volumes Surge 1,000 Percent
01:22 Mastercard and Busha Deploy Verified Crypto Aliases in Nigeria
02:01 Kenya Banking Fraud Unit Probes Pesapal Over KES 24.5M Insider Wire Scheme
02:48 Sumsub Report Detects 269 Percent Deepfake Spike in South Africa
03:28 Audit Reveals East African Mobile Money Corridors Impose 7 Percent Hidden FX Sp…
04:11 PayU Ships AI Fraud Liability Protection for International Card Checkouts
04:53 Central Bank of Kenya Proposes Systemic Bank Capital Buffers and Growth Restric…
05:36 Federal High Court Sets October Trial for N98.5B Patent Suit Against NIBSS and…
06:23 FATF Report Uncovers Widespread Crypto Travel Rule Non-Compliance Across West a…
07:09 Kenya eTIMS Invoicing Enforcement Freezes KES 45 Billion in SME Tax Refund Clai…
07:49 Physical Cash Agent Networks Maintain 18 Percent Growth Across Major African Ma…
08:32 Nigeria FX Utilization Reaches $50.9 Billion in 2025 as CBN Injects $151 Million
09:18 Wrap-up

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• AWS Commits $1.5 Billion to African Cloud and AI Infrastructure Expansion — At the AWS Summit Johannesburg on Thursday, September 10, Amazon Web Services announced a $1.5 billion investment…
• Central Bank of Nigeria Issues Systemic Cyber Risk Warning to Banks and Top Fintechs — Speaking at the CIBN Annual Banking and Finance Conference on Thursday, September 10, Central Bank of Nigeria Payments…
• Angolan Kwanza Admitted as SADC Cross-Border RTGS Settlement Currency — On Thursday, September 10, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) integrated the Angolan kwanza into its…
• NFIU Unveils Joint Financial Intelligence Collaboration Framework for Real-Time Data Sharing — The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit introduced the Joint Financial Intelligence Collaboration framework on…
• Ericsson and MTN Group Complete Cloud-Native MoMo Evolved Migration — Ericsson and MTN Group Fintech completed the MoMo Evolved Migration across Eswatini, Ghana, Rwanda, and Uganda on…
• Bank of Ghana Reports 98 Percent Surge in Digital Financial Fraud Over Three Years — Following the jump to 24,778 annual financial sector fraud incidents we noted last week, the Bank of Ghana has now…
• Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International Launch Joint KYA Framework for Autonomous AI Commerce — Advancing the Agentic Payments Alliance initiatives we've been tracking, Ant International, Mastercard, and Visa…
• Razorpay Details Production Architecture and Metrics for Vulcan Payments AI Foundation Model — During the Global Fintech Fest on Thursday, September 10, Razorpay Co-Founder and CEO Harshil Mathur presented…
• TendePay Obtains Central Bank of Kenya Approval to Launch Regulated E-Wallet — On Thursday, September 10, Kenyan fintech platform TendePay secured official approval from the Central Bank of Kenya to…
• Kenya Establishes 90-Day Regularization Window and Local Content Sourcing Mandates — On Thursday, September 10, the Kenyan government extended its initial foreign trader compliance window to 90 days…
• Nigerian Interbank FX Turnover Surges 70% to $94.4 Million as Naira Adjusts to N1,334/$ — While we recently noted a drop in broader weekly FX turnover, Central Bank of Nigeria data published on Wednesday…
• Creditchek Acquires Ugandan Core Banking Provider Algosys to Expand Regional Lending Stack — Nigerian credit data firm Creditchek announced the acquisition of Ugandan core banking software startup Algosys on…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:05 Central Bank of Nigeria Issues Systemic Cyber Risk Warning to Banks and Top Fin…
01:55 Angolan Kwanza Admitted as SADC Cross-Border RTGS Settlement Currency
02:38 NFIU Unveils Joint Financial Intelligence Collaboration Framework for Real-Time…
03:20 Ericsson and MTN Group Complete Cloud-Native MoMo Evolved Migration
04:02 Bank of Ghana Reports 98 Percent Surge in Digital Financial Fraud Over Three Ye…
04:47 Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International Launch Joint KYA Framework for Autonomo…
05:32 Razorpay Details Production Architecture and Metrics for Vulcan Payments AI Fou…
06:16 TendePay Obtains Central Bank of Kenya Approval to Launch Regulated E-Wallet
06:56 Kenya Establishes 90-Day Regularization Window and Local Content Sourcing Manda…
07:37 Nigerian Interbank FX Turnover Surges 70% to $94.4 Million as Naira Adjusts to…
08:18 Creditchek Acquires Ugandan Core Banking Provider Algosys to Expand Regional Le…
08:57 Wrap-up

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• South African Crypto Coalition Launches Campaign Against SARB Cross-Border Outflow Limits — South African digital asset platforms including VALR, Luno, AltCoinTrader, and EasyEquities formed the CATASTROPHE…
• Bank of Ghana Drafts Framework Mandating 1:1 Reserve Backing for Cedi Stablecoins — Advancing the joint stablecoin regulatory sprint and the Virtual Assets Coordinating Committee (VACC) framework we've…
• dLocal Secures Enhanced PSP License from Bank of Ghana for Direct Mobile Money Access — Uruguay-headquartered cross-border payment processor dLocal secured an Enhanced Payment Service Provider (EPSP) license…
• Kenya Finance Bill 2026 Proposes 16% VAT on Digital Payment Processing and Acquiring — Kenya's Finance Bill 2026 proposals published on Wednesday, September 9, include a 16% Value-Added Tax on digital…
• ChamsSwitch Launches GLASS Gateway to Unify Asian Wallets and Cards for Nigerian Merchants — CBN-licensed payment switching company ChamsSwitch launched the GLASS payment gateway on Wednesday, September 9.
• Nigeria Cuts AfCFTA Certificate of Origin Processing to 24 Hours via Automated Customs — Nigeria's AfCFTA Coordination Office announced on Wednesday, September 9, that processing times for Certificates of…
• SARS Customs Crackdown Forces Shein and Temu to Shift to Domestic Fulfilment in South Africa — Data published in the Online Retail in South Africa 2026 report on Wednesday, September 9, reveals that strict customs…
• TerraPay Partners with Alipay+ to Enable Cross-Border QR Payments Across 15 African Wallets — TerraPay announced a strategic partnership with Ant International's Alipay+ on Wednesday, September 9, linking 15…
• Moniepoint Outlines 'Failure-First' Gateway Architecture for 20M Daily Card Transactions — At an engineering summit in Lagos on Wednesday, September 9, Moniepoint detailed the distributed systems architecture…
• Kenya ODPC Issues Binding Regulatory Guidance on Cross-Border Data Transfers — Kenya's Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) published official regulatory guidance on cross-border data…
• Paystack Expands Compliance Infrastructure to Support Stablecoin and Cross-Border Operations — Paystack initiated an operational expansion of its compliance and regulatory monitoring stack on Wednesday, September…
• SABRIC Figures Show R3.9 Billion South African Banking Fraud as Scams Target Instant Payments — Data released by the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC) on Wednesday, September 9, shows annual…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:15 Bank of Ghana Drafts Framework Mandating 1:1 Reserve Backing for Cedi Stablecoi…
02:02 dLocal Secures Enhanced PSP License from Bank of Ghana for Direct Mobile Money…
02:44 Kenya Finance Bill 2026 Proposes 16% VAT on Digital Payment Processing and Acqu…
03:26 ChamsSwitch Launches GLASS Gateway to Unify Asian Wallets and Cards for Nigeria…
04:03 Nigeria Cuts AfCFTA Certificate of Origin Processing to 24 Hours via Automated…
04:37 SARS Customs Crackdown Forces Shein and Temu to Shift to Domestic Fulfilment in…
05:14 TerraPay Partners with Alipay+ to Enable Cross-Border QR Payments Across 15 Afr…
05:48 Moniepoint Outlines 'Failure-First' Gateway Architecture for 20M Daily Card Tra…
06:19 Kenya ODPC Issues Binding Regulatory Guidance on Cross-Border Data Transfers
06:51 Paystack Expands Compliance Infrastructure to Support Stablecoin and Cross-Bord…
07:24 SABRIC Figures Show R3.9 Billion South African Banking Fraud as Scams Target In…
08:02 Wrap-up

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• Circle Agrees to Acquire Tazapay for $400 Million to Secure Local Payment Rails — Following Mastercard's $1.8 billion acquisition of BVNK last month, Circle Internet Group signed a definitive agreement…
• DCSPay Integrates Kotani Pay API for Local Mobile Money and Bank Stablecoin Off-Ramps — Stablecoin infrastructure firm DCSPay partnered with African payment provider Kotani Pay on Tuesday, September 8, to…
• PAPSS Advances Instapay Interoperability Talks Ahead of Q1 2027 Egyptian Launch Target — Building on the 1,000% volume surge and seven-second settlement execution we covered yesterday, Pan-African Payment and…
• Kenya Enacts Virtual Asset Rules Granting Central Bank Gatekeeping Over Foreign Stablecoins — Building on the domestic stablecoin reserve mandates and KSh 300 million capital floor we covered last month, Kenya…
• IMF Article IV Report Outlines Nigeria Stablecoin Dominance and Regulatory Oversight — The IMF's 2026 Article IV consultation on Nigeria published on Tuesday, September 8, detailed that the country received…
• ZARU Integrates Absa to Add Structural Redundancy to Rand Stablecoin Clearing — South African rand-backed stablecoin project ZARU announced on Tuesday, September 8, that it has integrated Absa as its…
• Safaricom Revises M-PESA Merchant Fees and Expands Pochi La Biashara Limits — Safaricom launched its Pata More campaign in Kenya on Tuesday, September 8, introducing restructured merchant fees…
• Revolut and Visa Test France's First Passkey-Authenticated Agentic Card Payment — Following the recent formation of the Agentic Payments Alliance we've been tracking, Revolut and Visa executed France's…
• Tax Advisory Clarifies Five Zero-Rated VAT Export Misconceptions for South African Merchants — Tax Consulting South Africa published regulatory guidance on Monday, September 7, outlining five critical VAT export…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:37 DCSPay Integrates Kotani Pay API for Local Mobile Money and Bank Stablecoin Off…
02:24 PAPSS Advances Instapay Interoperability Talks Ahead of Q1 2027 Egyptian Launch…
03:10 Kenya Enacts Virtual Asset Rules Granting Central Bank Gatekeeping Over Foreign…
03:55 IMF Article IV Report Outlines Nigeria Stablecoin Dominance and Regulatory Over…
04:42 ZARU Integrates Absa to Add Structural Redundancy to Rand Stablecoin Clearing
05:22 Safaricom Revises M-PESA Merchant Fees and Expands Pochi La Biashara Limits
06:03 Revolut and Visa Test France's First Passkey-Authenticated Agentic Card Payment
06:45 Tax Advisory Clarifies Five Zero-Rated VAT Export Misconceptions for South Afri…
07:28 Wrap-up

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• Nigerian Commercial Banks Expand Dollar Card Spending Limits Up to $40,000 — Following the $54.08 billion external reserve milestone we noted this weekend, major Nigerian commercial lenders…
• Mastercard and Flowcart Roll Out WhatsApp Native Chat-to-Pay Across East Africa — Mastercard partnered with ecommerce orchestration platform Flowcart on Monday, September 7, to launch embedded card…
• BEAC Launches SYSTAC 2 ISO 20022 Clearing House and CEMAC Regional QR Code — The Bank of Central African States (BEAC) and software vendor ProgressSoft completed a region-wide migration on Monday…
• EFT Corporation Integrates Scan to Pay QR into Samsung Wallet in South Africa — EFT Corporation announced a strategic partnership with Samsung on Monday, September 7, integrating its Scan to Pay QR…
• CONCRYT Embeds Agentic AI Operations to Dynamic Gateway Traffic Routing — Global payments firm CONCRYT announced on Monday, September 7, that it has integrated agentic AI into its core…
• Bank of Tanzania Endorses Creditinfo Domestic Fraud Verification Network — The Bank of Tanzania formally backed Creditinfo's locally hosted fraud detection and KYC platform on Monday, September…
• South Africa Apex Court Delivers Jurisdictional Ruling on Forex Cartel Litigation — The South African Constitutional Court delivered a judgment on Tuesday, September 8, regarding the Competition…
• AEON Launches Agentic Checkout and Virtual AI Card Built on Visa and Mastercard Rails — Payment infrastructure firm AEON launched Agentic Checkout and the AEON AI Card on Monday, September 7.
• AI Agent Payment Protocols Process $24.2M as Merchant Specifications Benchmark — An industry technical report published on Monday, September 7, benchmarked merchant adoption across AI payment…
• Central Bank of Nigeria Mops Up N2.9T in Liquidity Squeeze as Commercial Lending Rates Top 35% — Following the N4.65 trillion bank recapitalisation exercise we tracked earlier this week, data published on Monday…
• Afreximbank and PAPSS Pilot CANEX Creative Industry Royalty Settlement in Lagos — Building on the 1,000% volume surge and seven-second settlement execution we covered yesterday, Afreximbank and the…
• Oneremit Crosses $200 Million Outbound Commercial Volume via Partner Rails — Cross-border fintech Oneremit announced on Friday, September 4, that it has processed over $200 million in outbound…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:19 Mastercard and Flowcart Roll Out WhatsApp Native Chat-to-Pay Across East Africa
02:08 BEAC Launches SYSTAC 2 ISO 20022 Clearing House and CEMAC Regional QR Code
02:56 EFT Corporation Integrates Scan to Pay QR into Samsung Wallet in South Africa
03:34 CONCRYT Embeds Agentic AI Operations to Dynamic Gateway Traffic Routing
04:12 Bank of Tanzania Endorses Creditinfo Domestic Fraud Verification Network
04:50 South Africa Apex Court Delivers Jurisdictional Ruling on Forex Cartel Litigati…
05:32 AEON Launches Agentic Checkout and Virtual AI Card Built on Visa and Mastercard…
06:12 AI Agent Payment Protocols Process $24.2M as Merchant Specifications Benchmark
06:53 Central Bank of Nigeria Mops Up N2.9T in Liquidity Squeeze as Commercial Lendin…
07:34 Afreximbank and PAPSS Pilot CANEX Creative Industry Royalty Settlement in Lagos
08:13 Oneremit Crosses $200 Million Outbound Commercial Volume via Partner Rails
08:55 Wrap-up

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• PAPSS Reports 1,000% Volume Surge and Seven-Second Settlement Execution — Following CEO Mike Ogbalu's remarks this weekend on surging religious remittance volumes, Pan-African Payment and…
• Ghana, Mauritius, and Uganda Coordinate Common Regulatory Standards for Payment Stablecoins — Building on Ghana's recent launch of its statutory Virtual Assets Coordinating Committee, financial regulators in…
• Nomba Secures $3M Debt Facility to Expand Asian USD Corridors for DRC Trade — B2B payment platform Nomba secured a $3 million debt facility through CardinalStone Finance Company Limited on Monday…
• Non-Custodial Architecture Framework Employs API Payment Drafts for Autonomous AI Agents — Following this weekend's open-source release of the REVA payment recovery architecture, a new non-custodial blueprint…
• India Advances National Protocol for Autonomous Agentic UPI Micro-Transactions — Financial authorities in India announced on Sunday, September 6, that they are drafting a Unified Agent Protocol to…
• Nigeria EFCC Deploys Real-Time FRAC Unit to Execute 72-Hour Administrative Freezes — Earlier this week we covered the EFCC authorizing its Fraud Risk Assessment and Control (FRAC) department to execute…
• Bitget Wallet Expands Direct Local Bank Off-Ramps Across 45 Nigerian Banks — Self-custodial platform Bitget Wallet announced an operational update on Sunday, September 6, expanding its direct…
• Central Bank Reform Review Outlines N4.65T Capital Injections Across Nigerian Fintech Stack — A structural review of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) reforms published on Monday, September 7, detailed key financial…
• PayShap Governance Council Appoints Vuyo Mpako to Lead Expansion into E-Commerce Rails — Following last week's restructuring that formally transferred PayShap's operational clearing to PayInc, the scheme's…
• Sub-Saharan RMB Clearing Expands via Stanbic Tanzania and Regional CIPS Links — Expanding on the direct CIPS renminbi clearing rails we tracked Standard Bank deploying in Kenya and Ghana last month…
• Kenyan SME Cyber Losses Highlight Urgent Need for Secured Mobile Money API Verification — A cybersecurity report published on Monday, September 7, by Savannah Software Solutions indicates that cyber incidents…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:20 Ghana, Mauritius, and Uganda Coordinate Common Regulatory Standards for Payment…
02:05 Nomba Secures $3M Debt Facility to Expand Asian USD Corridors for DRC Trade
02:44 Non-Custodial Architecture Framework Employs API Payment Drafts for Autonomous…
03:26 India Advances National Protocol for Autonomous Agentic UPI Micro-Transactions
04:03 Nigeria EFCC Deploys Real-Time FRAC Unit to Execute 72-Hour Administrative Free…
04:42 Bitget Wallet Expands Direct Local Bank Off-Ramps Across 45 Nigerian Banks
05:20 Central Bank Reform Review Outlines N4.65T Capital Injections Across Nigerian F…
05:58 PayShap Governance Council Appoints Vuyo Mpako to Lead Expansion into E-Commerc…
06:32 Sub-Saharan RMB Clearing Expands via Stanbic Tanzania and Regional CIPS Links
07:11 Kenyan SME Cyber Losses Highlight Urgent Need for Secured Mobile Money API Veri…
07:50 Wrap-up

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In this episode

• Kotani Pay and DCSPay Partner to Route Stablecoin Settlements into Six African Markets — Kotani Pay announced a partnership with DCSPay on Sunday, September 6, combining DCSPay's wallet, checkout, and…
• MTN Group Explores Direct Banking Licenses to Expand MoMo B2B Credit Operations — MTN Group confirmed on Saturday, September 5, that it is evaluating banking license applications across key African…
• PAPSS CEO Cites Surging Religious Remittances and Explores Native Stablecoin Settlement Rails — Yesterday we covered the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System's (PAPSS) phase two strategy targeting expansion to…
• Nigeria Gross External Reserves Exceed $54 Billion as Weekly FX Turnover Drops 33 Percent — Following the $53.1 billion 18-year high we tracked in late August, Central Bank of Nigeria figures published Saturday…
• South Africa Transfers PASA Operations to Reserve Bank Ahead of Activity-Based Payment Bill — Building on the September 2 operational split of South Africa's national payment system management between SARB and…
• Developer Demonstrates Deterministic Architecture for AI Payment Recovery Agents — An engineering implementation published Saturday, September 5, introduced REVA (Razorpay Revenue Recovery Agent), an…
• Raiz Finance Establishes Physical Payment Hub at Lagos ASPMDA Trade Complex — Cross-border trade infrastructure provider Raiz Finance opened a physical branch inside the Auto Spare Parts and…
• Mozambique Police Intercept Transnational POS Terminal and Foreign Card Fraud Syndicate — Mozambique's National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) arrested two foreign nationals in Chimoio on Saturday…
• Kenya Links IFMIS Procurement System to eTIMS for Automated Tax Validation — The Kenya Revenue Authority and National Treasury completed an automated integration between the eTIMS electronic…
• Stripe Rolls Out Dynamic Machine-Learning Layer in Adaptive Checkout Suite — Details published Friday, September 4, outline Stripe's production rollout of Adaptive Checkout, a machine-learning…
• FairMoney Reaches 30 Million Users as Scaled Nigerian Fintechs Expand Ecosystems — Fintech provider FairMoney announced on Saturday, September 5, that its user base in Nigeria has reached 30 million…
• Zambia Phases Out Paper Cheques to Accelerate Digital Payment Migration Under NFIS II — A financial sector report published Saturday, September 5, highlights that the Bank of Zambia has fully phased out…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:59 MTN Group Explores Direct Banking Licenses to Expand MoMo B2B Credit Operations
01:49 PAPSS CEO Cites Surging Religious Remittances and Explores Native Stablecoin Se…
02:36 Nigeria Gross External Reserves Exceed $54 Billion as Weekly FX Turnover Drops…
03:26 South Africa Transfers PASA Operations to Reserve Bank Ahead of Activity-Based…
04:16 Developer Demonstrates Deterministic Architecture for AI Payment Recovery Agents
05:06 Raiz Finance Establishes Physical Payment Hub at Lagos ASPMDA Trade Complex
05:48 Mozambique Police Intercept Transnational POS Terminal and Foreign Card Fraud S…
06:28 Kenya Links IFMIS Procurement System to eTIMS for Automated Tax Validation
07:11 Stripe Rolls Out Dynamic Machine-Learning Layer in Adaptive Checkout Suite
07:58 FairMoney Reaches 30 Million Users as Scaled Nigerian Fintechs Expand Ecosystems
08:37 Zambia Phases Out Paper Cheques to Accelerate Digital Payment Migration Under N…
09:21 Wrap-up

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• Uber Restores Visa Processing in Kenya After Eight-Month Card Blockade — Uber restored Visa card processing for riders in Kenya on Friday, September 4, ending an eight-month suspension…
• Yellow Card Closes $40M Series C and Enters Ghana VASP Sandbox Cohort — Following the $40 million Series C raise we tracked in August—which brings its total funding to over $120…
• PAPSS Unveils Phase Two Strategy Targeting 38 Countries by Year-End — Yesterday we covered ABC Bank integrating with the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System across 28 markets; today…
• Communications Authority of Kenya Proposes Mandatory 6-Month SIM Deactivation Buffer — The Communications Authority of Kenya published draft regulations on Friday, September 4, requiring mobile network…
• Incognia Telemetry Detects 81% Rise in Cross-Border Mule Account Handovers — Global risk platform Incognia released threat intelligence data on Friday, September 4, showing that 81% of surveyed…
• Riskified Launches ARIA Conversational AI Engine for Enterprise Merchant Risk Data — Ecommerce fraud platform Riskified launched ARIA (AI Risk Intelligence Analyst) on Friday, September 4, embedding a…
• Central Bank of Nigeria Mopping Mops Up N930B in Banking Reserves as T-Bill Rates Moderated — Data released by the Central Bank of Nigeria on Friday, September 4, indicates banking system liquidity contracted by…
• Meru Rolls Out Multi-Currency Virtual Accounts Across 15 African Markets — Global payment platform Meru announced an operational expansion on Friday, September 4, extending its financial…
• Kenyan Executive Orders Target Foreign Retail Operators Ahead of Local Content Bill — Kenyan President William Ruto directed enforcement agencies on Wednesday, September 2, to launch administrative actions…
• Kudiwave N750M Account Freeze Case Triggers Police Inquiry into PalmPay Account Ownership — Nigerian fintech entity Kudiwave Technologies is undergoing investigation by law enforcement authorities regarding the…
• TransFi Data Highlights On-Chain B2B Last-Mile Payout Bottlenecks — In operational commentary published on Friday, September 4, TransFi Chief Executive Officer Raj Kamal detailed that…
• Kenyan Police Arrest FlexPay Executives Over Alleged KES 31.2M Retail Misappropriation — Kenyan law enforcement officers arrested two executive directors of Flexitech Group Limited, operator of digital lay-by…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:59 Yellow Card Closes $40M Series C and Enters Ghana VASP Sandbox Cohort
01:36 PAPSS Unveils Phase Two Strategy Targeting 38 Countries by Year-End
02:12 Communications Authority of Kenya Proposes Mandatory 6-Month SIM Deactivation B…
02:50 Incognia Telemetry Detects 81% Rise in Cross-Border Mule Account Handovers
03:28 Riskified Launches ARIA Conversational AI Engine for Enterprise Merchant Risk D…
04:04 Central Bank of Nigeria Mopping Mops Up N930B in Banking Reserves as T-Bill Rat…
04:37 Meru Rolls Out Multi-Currency Virtual Accounts Across 15 African Markets
05:12 Kenyan Executive Orders Target Foreign Retail Operators Ahead of Local Content…
05:47 Kudiwave N750M Account Freeze Case Triggers Police Inquiry into PalmPay Account…
06:23 TransFi Data Highlights On-Chain B2B Last-Mile Payout Bottlenecks
06:58 Kenyan Police Arrest FlexPay Executives Over Alleged KES 31.2M Retail Misapprop…
07:31 Wrap-up

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• Nomba Secures $3M Debt Facility to Expand Central Africa and Asia Trade Corridors — Nigerian B2B payments fintech Nomba secured a $3 million debt facility from CardinalStone Finance Company on Thursday…
• Canva and EBANX Roll Out Capitec Pay Account-to-Account Subscriptions in South Africa — Yesterday we covered EBANX and Canva rolling out Capitec Pay's account-to-account recurring subscription billing in…
• ABC Bank Integrates PAPSS for Instant Cross-Border Clearing Across 28 Markets — African Banking Corporation Limited (ABC Bank) went live on the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) on…
• Anthropic and Retail Partners Release Open-Source Commerce Agent Toolkit — Anthropic released the open-source Claude Commerce Agents blueprint under Apache 2.0 on Wednesday, September 2.
• Super Money SA Requests Rand Stablecoin Distinction in South African FX Framework — Adding to the ongoing industry pushback against South Africa's draft Crypto Assets Manual, Super Money SA, issuer of…
• Nigerian SEC Proposes N5B Capital Floor and 30% Local Ownership for FX Platforms — Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission published draft rules on Tuesday, September 1, establishing minimum…
• Nigeria Single Window Processes N12B as Phase 2 Mandates November Export Integration — Nigeria's Federal Government announced on Thursday, September 3, that Phase 1 of the National Single Window portal…
• Ghana Cyber Security Authority Reports 54% Spike in Payment Provider Fraud — The Cyber Security Authority of Ghana disclosed on Thursday, September 3, that electronic fraud within the payment…
• Ghana Outlines 5-Agency Oversight Board Ahead of 2027 VASP Act Implementation — Following up on the August launch of Ghana's Virtual Assets Coordinating Committee, Bank of Ghana Governor Johnson…
• Tether USDT0 Launches on Stellar to Expand Omnichain Dollar Settlement — Tether's USDT0 launched on the Stellar network on Wednesday, September 2, utilizing LayerZero's Omnichain Fungible…
• Kenya Government Cuts Cargo Rail Charges and Consolidated Import Benchmarks — President William Ruto instructed the Kenya Revenue Authority on Wednesday, September 2, to lower the customs benchmark…
• Absa Bank Mozambique Links M-Pesa Paga Fácil Direct to Commercial Bank Accounts — Absa Bank Mozambique and Vodacom's M-Pesa signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday, September 2, at FACIM 2026…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:14 Canva and EBANX Roll Out Capitec Pay Account-to-Account Subscriptions in South…
02:06 ABC Bank Integrates PAPSS for Instant Cross-Border Clearing Across 28 Markets
02:55 Anthropic and Retail Partners Release Open-Source Commerce Agent Toolkit
03:48 Super Money SA Requests Rand Stablecoin Distinction in South African FX Framewo…
04:46 Nigerian SEC Proposes N5B Capital Floor and 30% Local Ownership for FX Platforms
05:40 Nigeria Single Window Processes N12B as Phase 2 Mandates November Export Integr…
06:32 Ghana Cyber Security Authority Reports 54% Spike in Payment Provider Fraud
07:24 Ghana Outlines 5-Agency Oversight Board Ahead of 2027 VASP Act Implementation
08:15 Tether USDT0 Launches on Stellar to Expand Omnichain Dollar Settlement
09:07 Kenya Government Cuts Cargo Rail Charges and Consolidated Import Benchmarks
09:56 Absa Bank Mozambique Links M-Pesa Paga Fácil Direct to Commercial Bank Accounts
10:43 Wrap-up

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• SARB and PayInc Formally Split South African National Payment System Management — Following up on the South African Reserve Bank's 50% stake acquisition in PayInc that we tracked on Monday, SARB…
• Canva and EBANX Roll Out Capitec Pay Direct Subscription Billing in South Africa — EBANX integrated Capitec Pay into its cross-border processing engine on Wednesday, September 2, launching…
• Grey Ships Direct Chinese Yuan Payout Service for African Import Merchants — Yesterday we covered cross-border fintech Grey's launch of a direct Chinese yuan (CNY) bank payout corridor; today's…
• Visa Integrates Featurespace AI into A2A Protect to Intercept Real-Time Transfer Fraud — Visa unveiled an upgraded version of its A2A Protect risk solution on Wednesday, September 2, embedding Featurespace…
• SARB Governor Details Activity-Based Licensing Under Draft National Payment System Bill — Yesterday we covered Governor Lesetja Kganyago's announcement of the upcoming National Payment System Bill's shift to…
• Ghana Launches Mojaloop-Based Inclusive Instant Payment Switch for Non-Bank Lenders — On Wednesday, September 2, Ghanaian financial sector associations launched the Ghana Inclusive Instant Payment System…
• Standard Bank Joins 21-Bank International Consortium to Issue Global Dollar Stablecoin — Standard Bank announced on Wednesday, September 2, that it has joined a 21-member global bank consortium planning to…
• Razorpay Ships Conversational WhatsApp AI Agent 'RAY' for Merchant Operations — Building on Razorpay's deployment of its Vulcan AI foundation model for merchant operations that we've been tracking…
• Equity Bank and Safaricom Expand Hakikisha Name Verification to M-Pesa Merchant Tills — Equity Bank and Safaricom expanded the Hakikisha real-time name verification protocol to merchant payment channels on…
• Bank of Ghana Enforces GHS 2 Million Capital Floor for Digital Credit Providers — The Bank of Ghana published new licensing guidelines for Digital Credit Services Providers on Wednesday, September 2…
• Shoprite Takes 51% Stake in R&A Cellular to Capture Township Merchant Terminal Volume — Retail giant Shoprite Group completed its acquisition of a 51% controlling stake in fintech vendor R&A Cellular…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:39 Canva and EBANX Roll Out Capitec Pay Direct Subscription Billing in South Africa
02:35 Grey Ships Direct Chinese Yuan Payout Service for African Import Merchants
03:24 Visa Integrates Featurespace AI into A2A Protect to Intercept Real-Time Transfe…
04:12 SARB Governor Details Activity-Based Licensing Under Draft National Payment Sys…
05:02 Ghana Launches Mojaloop-Based Inclusive Instant Payment Switch for Non-Bank Len…
05:46 Standard Bank Joins 21-Bank International Consortium to Issue Global Dollar Sta…
06:34 Razorpay Ships Conversational WhatsApp AI Agent 'RAY' for Merchant Operations
07:18 Equity Bank and Safaricom Expand Hakikisha Name Verification to M-Pesa Merchant…
08:02 Bank of Ghana Enforces GHS 2 Million Capital Floor for Digital Credit Providers
08:44 Shoprite Takes 51% Stake in R&A Cellular to Capture Township Merchant Terminal…
09:27 Wrap-up

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• South Africa Drafts National Payment System Bill to Grant Non-Bank Fintechs Direct System Access — Yesterday we covered the South African Reserve Bank's 50% stake acquisition in PayInc; today, Governor Lesetja Kganyago…
• CBN Caps Secondary Market Share to Limit Market Concentration Across Nigerian Fintech Stacks — Yesterday we covered the Central Bank of Nigeria's strict market concentration caps issued on Monday, August 31…
• AfCFTA and Quest Ghana Partner on $5.1B Digital Trade Corridor Using PAPSS and Stablecoins — The AfCFTA Secretariat and Quest Ghana signed a joint venture agreement on Tuesday, September 1, to build a $5.1…
• Checkout.com Releases MCP Server to Connect LLM Tools Directly to Payment API Architecture — Checkout.com launched its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server on Tuesday, September 1, linking development tools like…
• Grey Ships Chinese Yuan Bank Payout Corridor for African Import Merchants — Cross-border fintech Grey launched direct Chinese yuan (CNY) payouts on Tuesday, September 1, enabling merchants to…
• Paystack Integrates Card Issuer Allawee Following 2025 Acquisition — Following up on Paystack's unannounced 2025 acquisition of Allawee we covered yesterday, the company confirmed the…
• Subex Secures $600K Mobile Money Fraud Detection Contract with African Operator — Following up on the Subex HyperSense AI deployment we tracked last week, the Indian telecom software provider confirmed…
• Innoviti Deploys Unsupervised ML Acquirer Failover Engine to Protect Checkout Conversion — Innoviti Technologies launched its UPI Acquirer Backup Platform on Tuesday, September 1, utilizing unsupervised machine…
• Nigeria's EFCC Establishes 72-Hour Account Freeze Department for Digital Fraud Interception — Yesterday we covered Nigeria's EFCC authorizing its Fraud Risk Assessment and Control Department to execute 72-hour…
• VALR Expands into Kenya to Infrastructure Mobile Money and Stablecoin Rails — South African digital asset platform VALR announced its operational expansion into Kenya on Tuesday, September 1…
• Federal High Court Vacates Post-No-Debit Freeze Orders on Accounts Linked to Flutterwave Glitch — An Abuja Federal High Court vacated a Post-No-Debit freezing order on Tuesday, September 1, freeing four bank accounts…
• Google Enforces Mandatory 5% Withholding Tax on Kenyan Digital Disbursements — On Tuesday, September 1, Google notified Kenya-based digital creators that they must submit a verified Kenya Revenue…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:28 CBN Caps Secondary Market Share to Limit Market Concentration Across Nigerian F…
02:28 AfCFTA and Quest Ghana Partner on $5.1B Digital Trade Corridor Using PAPSS and…
03:29 Checkout.com Releases MCP Server to Connect LLM Tools Directly to Payment API A…
04:25 Grey Ships Chinese Yuan Bank Payout Corridor for African Import Merchants
05:23 Paystack Integrates Card Issuer Allawee Following 2025 Acquisition
06:20 Subex Secures $600K Mobile Money Fraud Detection Contract with African Operator
07:12 Innoviti Deploys Unsupervised ML Acquirer Failover Engine to Protect Checkout C…
08:08 Nigeria's EFCC Establishes 72-Hour Account Freeze Department for Digital Fraud…
09:05 VALR Expands into Kenya to Infrastructure Mobile Money and Stablecoin Rails
09:55 Federal High Court Vacates Post-No-Debit Freeze Orders on Accounts Linked to Fl…
10:44 Google Enforces Mandatory 5% Withholding Tax on Kenyan Digital Disbursements
11:37 Wrap-up

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• CBN Payment Rules Impose Strict Market Concentration Caps on Moniepoint and OPay — Building on the national license upgrades for OPay and Moniepoint we tracked earlier this month, the Central Bank of…
• Paystack Secretly Acquired Card Issuer Allawee to Build Out Stack Group Holding — Paystack acquired Nigerian card-issuing startup Allawee in 2025, a transaction kept quiet until shutdown emails were…
• SARB Buys 50% Stake in PayInc to Establish National Payments Utility for Non-Bank Fintechs — The South African Reserve Bank acquired a 50% stake in PayInc (formerly BankservAfrica) alongside commercial lenders to…
• Mastercard and TeamApt Deploy Direct Non-Bank Acquiring Across 40 Million Nigerian MSMEs — Mastercard and Moniepoint subsidiary TeamApt expanded their partnership on Monday, August 31, 2026, granting TeamApt…
• Cloud Costs and CBN Onshore Data Mandate Drive 60% Margin Squeeze for African Fintechs — The push toward local server hosting driven by the Central Bank of Nigeria's January 2027 onshore data mandate—which…
• East African Community Outlines Unified Instant Payment System and Mutual Provider Recognition — Expanding on the bilateral switch security talks between Rwanda and Tanzania we covered over the weekend, the EAC…
• Nigeria Remittance Inflows Touch Record $947 Million as H1 FX Utilisation Reaches $34.6 Billion — Yesterday we covered Nigeria's Q1 FX utilization surging to $16.2 billion; today, full H1 2026 data shows that total…
• Kenya Finalizes Dual-Regulator VASP Framework Setting KSh 300M Capital Floor for Stablecoins — Adding to yesterday's coverage of Kenya removing foreign ownership caps for digital asset firms, the National Treasury…
• Ghana Gold Board Directs Local Refining to Anchor $1.4 Billion Monthly Spot FX Injections — Ghana's Gold Board announced projections to deliver $1.4 billion in spot foreign exchange inflows for September 2026 on…
• EFCC Authorizes 72-Hour Account Freezes and National Crypto Confiscation Wallet — Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission empowered its Fraud Risk Assessment and Control Department on…
• M-Pesa SMS Notification Suppression Attack Highlights Agent Network Vulnerabilities in Kenya — An M-Pesa agent in Kapsabet, Kenya, lost KES 243,000 in under five minutes following a physical device interception…
• Maverick Payments Embeds AI Chargeback Agent for Automated Network Dispute Rebuttals — Maverick Payments integrated Findustry AI's Chargeback Agent directly into its processing platform on Monday, August…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:27 Paystack Secretly Acquired Card Issuer Allawee to Build Out Stack Group Holding
02:16 SARB Buys 50% Stake in PayInc to Establish National Payments Utility for Non-Ba…
03:11 Mastercard and TeamApt Deploy Direct Non-Bank Acquiring Across 40 Million Niger…
04:02 Cloud Costs and CBN Onshore Data Mandate Drive 60% Margin Squeeze for African F…
04:49 East African Community Outlines Unified Instant Payment System and Mutual Provi…
05:35 Nigeria Remittance Inflows Touch Record $947 Million as H1 FX Utilisation Reach…
06:29 Kenya Finalizes Dual-Regulator VASP Framework Setting KSh 300M Capital Floor fo…
07:24 Ghana Gold Board Directs Local Refining to Anchor $1.4 Billion Monthly Spot FX…
08:11 EFCC Authorizes 72-Hour Account Freezes and National Crypto Confiscation Wallet
09:02 M-Pesa SMS Notification Suppression Attack Highlights Agent Network Vulnerabili…
09:49 Maverick Payments Embeds AI Chargeback Agent for Automated Network Dispute Rebu…
10:31 Wrap-up

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• Nigeria FX Utilization Soars 74% to $16.2 Billion as Gross External Reserves Hit $53.3 Billion — Building on the complete clearance of $7 billion in FX backlogs and the $53.1 billion reserve milestone we tracked last…
• Spendin Expands Payment Rails to Francophone West Africa and Ships AI-Driven App Update — Following the Francophone merchant acquiring expansion into Cameroon, Senegal, Benin, and Côte d'Ivoire we tracked…
• Kenya Drops 33% Foreign Ownership Cap for Crypto Exchanges and Lowers Licensing Barriers — Adding to the finalized stablecoin capital floors we covered over the weekend, Kenya's National Treasury formally…
• Access Bank SME Fraud Incident Triggers Judicial Debit Orders Across 71 Financial Institutions — A Federal High Court order issued in Lagos in late August 2026 instructed 71 banks and payment institutions to freeze…
• Payfast Data Shows South African Digital Wallet Transactions Surging 155% — Internal transaction figures published by South African payment gateway Payfast by Network on Monday, August 31, 2026…
• MoMo PSB Appoints Former Flutterwave COO Bode Abifarin as Managing Director — MTN Nigeria's fintech subsidiary, MoMo Payment Service Bank (MoMo PSB), announced the appointment of former Flutterwave…
• UNCTAD Analysis Pinpoints FX Costs and Customs Friction as Primary Barrier to Pan-African Ecommerce — An analytical report published by UNCTAD on Thursday, November 26, 2026, highlights that high foreign-exchange…
• Central Bank of Egypt and Eswatini Evaluate PAPSS Integration and Gold Clearing Rails — Advancing the bilateral financial cooperation we tracked earlier this month, Central Bank of Egypt Governor Hassan…
• Sycamore CEO Outlines Shift from Consumer Credit to Infrastructure Operations in Nigeria — Following the Central Bank of Nigeria's revocation of its microfinance license earlier this month alongside 45 other…
• MTN Group Partners with Gulf Data Hub to Build AI-Ready Data Centers in South Africa and Nigeria — MTN Group established a joint venture with UAE-based Gulf Data Hub through Africa Data Hub Holding Limited on Sunday…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:00 Spendin Expands Payment Rails to Francophone West Africa and Ships AI-Driven Ap…
01:44 Kenya Drops 33% Foreign Ownership Cap for Crypto Exchanges and Lowers Licensing…
02:26 Access Bank SME Fraud Incident Triggers Judicial Debit Orders Across 71 Financi…
03:06 Payfast Data Shows South African Digital Wallet Transactions Surging 155%
03:46 MoMo PSB Appoints Former Flutterwave COO Bode Abifarin as Managing Director
04:27 UNCTAD Analysis Pinpoints FX Costs and Customs Friction as Primary Barrier to P…
05:07 Central Bank of Egypt and Eswatini Evaluate PAPSS Integration and Gold Clearing…
05:47 Sycamore CEO Outlines Shift from Consumer Credit to Infrastructure Operations i…
06:24 MTN Group Partners with Gulf Data Hub to Build AI-Ready Data Centers in South A…
07:02 Wrap-up

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• UMB Obtains Dual BoG and SEC Approval for Crypto Merchant Virtual Accounts — Days after Ghana inaugurated its Virtual Assets Coordinating Committee to align central bank and SEC oversight…
• SIIPS 2025 Report Flags Unaligned Compliance as Primary Bottleneck for Pan-African Settlement — The State of Inclusive Instant Payment Systems in Africa 2025 report published Saturday, August 29, shows 36 live…
• Moody's Upgrades Nigeria Outlook to Positive as FTSE Confirms Frontier Index Return — Following the complete clearance of $7 billion in FX backlogs and reserves topping $53 billion that we tracked last…
• National Bank of Ethiopia Blacklists 17 Hawala Operators to Enforce Regulated Remittances — The National Bank of Ethiopia published an enforcement directive on Saturday, August 29, 2026, naming 17 unlicensed…
• Savannah Software Study Quantifies M-Pesa Checkout Conversion Lift for East African SMEs — A study published by Savannah Software Solutions on Sunday, August 30, 2026, reveals that 78% of Kenyan online shoppers…
• Tether Investment in LemFi Highlights Shift to Stablecoin Settlement for Cross-Border Corridors — An industry report published Sunday, August 30, analyzes Tether's strategic investment in cross-border fintech LemFi…
• Rwanda and Tanzania Advance Security Frameworks for Cross-Border Instant Payment Switch — As part of the ongoing Proof of Concept linking Rwanda's RSwitch and Tanzania's TIPS that we've been tracking…
• Controlled Trial Reveals Consumer AI Assistant Blind Spots in African Social Commerce Fraud — A testing study published Saturday, August 29, evaluated four leading AI assistants against synthetic e-commerce scam…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:16 SIIPS 2025 Report Flags Unaligned Compliance as Primary Bottleneck for Pan-Afri…
02:10 Moody's Upgrades Nigeria Outlook to Positive as FTSE Confirms Frontier Index Re…
02:59 National Bank of Ethiopia Blacklists 17 Hawala Operators to Enforce Regulated R…
03:49 Savannah Software Study Quantifies M-Pesa Checkout Conversion Lift for East Afr…
04:33 Tether Investment in LemFi Highlights Shift to Stablecoin Settlement for Cross-…
05:18 Rwanda and Tanzania Advance Security Frameworks for Cross-Border Instant Paymen…
06:01 Controlled Trial Reveals Consumer AI Assistant Blind Spots in African Social Co…
06:41 Wrap-up

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• Kenya Cuts Stablecoin Issuer Capital Threshold to $2.32M While Mandating 30% Local Bank Reserves — The Central Bank of Kenya issued final rules for stablecoin issuers on Saturday.
• CBN Re-Affirms Jan 2027 Local Data Mandate Forcing Gateway Pipeline Refactoring — The Central Bank of Nigeria has re-issued guidance reiterating the hard January 1, 2027, onshore data localization…
• Nigeria Q1 2026 Payments Hit N1.05 Quadrillion as POS Volume Contracts 20% — Central Bank of Nigeria statistical bulletin data released Friday, August 28, reveals total electronic payment value…
• AEON Integrates M-Pesa Rails for Instant Crypto-to-KES Merchant Settlement — Global payment network AEON announced on Friday, August 28, the integration of Kenya's M-Pesa mobile money network into…
• Safaricom AI Real-Time Monitoring Cuts Mobile Fraud 87% Across Kenya Network — Safaricom detailed data in its 2025 Sustainable Business Report released Friday, August 28, showing its real-time AI…
• Spendin Rolls Out Single-Integration Cross-Border API with Stablecoin Settlement — Following its recent merchant acquiring expansion across Francophone African markets like Senegal and Cameroon, fintech…
• Ghana Establishes Joint BoG-SEC Virtual Assets Committee Ahead of 2027 Framework — Building on the VASP framework progress we've tracked in Ghana this month, Bank of Ghana Governor Dr.
• South Africa Amends Export Regulations to Permit Zero-Rating VAT at Harbour Terminals — South Africa's National Treasury and SARS published formal updates to the Export Regulations on Friday, August 28.
• BCEAO Delays Licensing as WAEMU Interoperable Switch Facing Resistance — Reports published Friday, August 28, confirm that the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) has repeatedly…
• Report Attributes 44% of Enterprise Merchant Chargebacks to First-Party Friendly Fraud — The 2026 Field Report published by Chargebacks911 on Friday, August 28, shows that friendly fraud now accounts for…
• Malawi Mandates Biometric Identity Verification for All Bank and Payment Onboarding — The government of Malawi gazetted strict Customer Due Diligence Regulations on Friday, August 28, under the Financial…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:24 CBN Re-Affirms Jan 2027 Local Data Mandate Forcing Gateway Pipeline Refactoring
02:28 Nigeria Q1 2026 Payments Hit N1.05 Quadrillion as POS Volume Contracts 20%
03:34 AEON Integrates M-Pesa Rails for Instant Crypto-to-KES Merchant Settlement
04:28 Safaricom AI Real-Time Monitoring Cuts Mobile Fraud 87% Across Kenya Network
05:28 Spendin Rolls Out Single-Integration Cross-Border API with Stablecoin Settlement
06:26 Ghana Establishes Joint BoG-SEC Virtual Assets Committee Ahead of 2027 Framework
07:28 South Africa Amends Export Regulations to Permit Zero-Rating VAT at Harbour Ter…
08:21 BCEAO Delays Licensing as WAEMU Interoperable Switch Facing Resistance
09:11 Report Attributes 44% of Enterprise Merchant Chargebacks to First-Party Friendl…
10:01 Malawi Mandates Biometric Identity Verification for All Bank and Payment Onboar…
10:56 Wrap-up

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• Visa Pilots Background Stablecoin Settlement for M-Pesa Mobile Transfers in DRC — Bringing Onafriq's stablecoin-fiat architecture into production with a major card network, Visa launched a pilot in the…
• Yellow Card and Tranzmit Deploy API Rail for US-to-Nigeria Stablecoin Settlement — Making good on its strategic pivot from retail exchange to enterprise B2B infrastructure following a recent $40 million…
• Onafriq Scales Circle USDC Settlement Across 40-Market Network — Continuing to scale the pan-African stablecoin stack we noted earlier this month, Onafriq integrated Circle's USDC on…
• Interswitch Refocuses Strategy on Open Banking APIs and Switching Infrastructure — Interswitch Group announced a strategic focus on core switching architecture and open banking APIs on Thursday, August…
• Cashfree Launches 'Relay' AI Agent Suite to Automate SMB Payment Operations — Cashfree Payments introduced 'Relay' on Thursday, August 27, an AI agent platform designed to automate end-to-end…
• Socure Acquires Fravity for $5.2B Valuation to Embed AI Investigation Agents — Identity verification firm Socure secured $156 million at a $5.2 billion valuation on Thursday, August 27, and acquired…
• Sumsub Executives Warn 60% of African Digital Fraud Occurs Post-Onboarding — Speaking at an industry summit in Cape Town on Thursday, August 27, Sumsub executives reported that over 60% of digital…
• Subex Secures Three-Year AI Fraud Management Deal with African Mobile Operator — Subex announced a three-year agreement on Wednesday, August 26, to deploy its HyperSense AI fraud management platform…
• Kenyan Court Rules Local Tech Services for Foreign Clients Qualify as Exempt VAT Exports — Kenya's Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday, August 27, that software and hardware maintenance services provided by local…
• Stanbic Bank Tanzania Launches Direct Shilling-to-Yuan CIPS Settlement Corridor — Adding another node to the direct CIPS rollout we've tracked across Standard Bank's Kenyan and Ghanaian subsidiaries…
• Nigeria Foreign Reserves Hit $53.1B 18-Year High as FX Backlogs Clear — Central Bank of Nigeria data published on Monday, August 24, shows gross foreign exchange reserves reached $53.1…
• Restructured ANKA Relaunches Afrikrea Marketplace Under Global Shop Group — Following its acquisition out of judicial liquidation in late 2025, pan-African ecommerce platform ANKA is reviving its…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:57 Yellow Card and Tranzmit Deploy API Rail for US-to-Nigeria Stablecoin Settlement
01:37 Onafriq Scales Circle USDC Settlement Across 40-Market Network
02:16 Interswitch Refocuses Strategy on Open Banking APIs and Switching Infrastructure
02:53 Cashfree Launches 'Relay' AI Agent Suite to Automate SMB Payment Operations
03:30 Socure Acquires Fravity for $5.2B Valuation to Embed AI Investigation Agents
04:05 Sumsub Executives Warn 60% of African Digital Fraud Occurs Post-Onboarding
04:43 Subex Secures Three-Year AI Fraud Management Deal with African Mobile Operator
05:21 Kenyan Court Rules Local Tech Services for Foreign Clients Qualify as Exempt VA…
06:00 Stanbic Bank Tanzania Launches Direct Shilling-to-Yuan CIPS Settlement Corridor
06:33 Nigeria Foreign Reserves Hit $53.1B 18-Year High as FX Backlogs Clear
07:10 Restructured ANKA Relaunches Afrikrea Marketplace Under Global Shop Group
07:46 Wrap-up

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• Ripple Invests in Flutterwave to Integrate RLUSD and XRP Ledger for Cross-Border FX — Building on its recent Caliza integration for US dollar accounts, African payment gateway Flutterwave secured a…
• SARB Reports R63B Unmonitored Crypto Outflows as South Africa Moves to Enforce Exchange Control Rules — Contextualizing the recent industry pushback we've tracked over South Africa's draft Crypto Asset Manual, Reserve Bank…
• MTN Group Evaluates African Banking Licenses to Fund Direct Mobile Money Lending — Following yesterday's report that its mobile money ecosystem processed 13 billion transactions worth $330.5 billion in…
• Moniepoint Winds Down UK Remittance App MonieWorld to Refocus Capital on Domestic Rails — Nigerian fintech unicorn Moniepoint is shutting down its UK-to-Nigeria remittance product, MonieWorld, less than 18…
• Cameroon Urges PAPSS Adoption as Commercial Bank Integration Lags Central Bank Accession — Cameroon's Trade Minister issued an advisory urging local businesses to adopt Afreximbank's Pan-African Payment and…
• Interpol Operation Jackal IV Seizes $2.67M and Blocks 257 Bank Accounts in South Africa — Interpol announced results on Wednesday, August 26, from Operation Jackal IV, targeting West African cybercrime…
• Safaricom Introduces Masked M-PESA Transfers to Comply with Privacy Rules and Limit Scams — Safaricom launched masked M-PESA transfers in Kenya on Thursday, August 27, partially obscuring senders' phone numbers…
• Central Bank of Kenya Finalizes AI Guidance Note as Financial Sector Adoption Surges — The Central Bank of Kenya announced on Thursday, August 27, that it is finalizing a comprehensive Guidance Note on…
• NFIU Annual Report Documents Sub-Threshold Remittance Exploitation and Gender Proxy Fraud — The Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit released its 2025 Annual Report on Wednesday, August 26, documenting emerging…
• Brydge and Monirates Launch Zero-Fee Stablecoin Wallets for Pan-African B2B Merchants — Brydge and Monirates partnered on Thursday, August 27, to integrate zero-fee stablecoin wallets into Brydge's…
• Kenyan Parliamentary Deadlock Keeps Saccos Excluded from National Payment Infrastructure — A legislative impasse between Kenya's National Assembly and Senate over the Co-operatives Bill, 2024, has been referred…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:10 SARB Reports R63B Unmonitored Crypto Outflows as South Africa Moves to Enforce…
01:59 MTN Group Evaluates African Banking Licenses to Fund Direct Mobile Money Lending
02:40 Moniepoint Winds Down UK Remittance App MonieWorld to Refocus Capital on Domest…
03:19 Cameroon Urges PAPSS Adoption as Commercial Bank Integration Lags Central Bank…
03:55 Interpol Operation Jackal IV Seizes $2.67M and Blocks 257 Bank Accounts in Sout…
04:35 Safaricom Introduces Masked M-PESA Transfers to Comply with Privacy Rules and L…
05:13 Central Bank of Kenya Finalizes AI Guidance Note as Financial Sector Adoption S…
05:53 NFIU Annual Report Documents Sub-Threshold Remittance Exploitation and Gender P…
06:32 Brydge and Monirates Launch Zero-Fee Stablecoin Wallets for Pan-African B2B Mer…
07:07 Kenyan Parliamentary Deadlock Keeps Saccos Excluded from National Payment Infra…
07:47 Wrap-up

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• Safaricom Nationwide M-PESA Blackout Paralyzes KES 1.4 Billion in Kenyan Retail Trade — Safaricom suffered an hour-long nationwide system outage on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, driven by a core routing failure…
• Cassava Technologies and Circle Partner to Scale USDC Across Sasai Fintech Network — Strive Masiyiwa's Cassava Technologies established a strategic partnership with Circle Internet Group on Wednesday…
• Moniepoint Winds Down UK Remittance Unit MonieWorld to Refocus Capital on African B2B Rails — Following the CBN national license upgrade and direct Mastercard acquiring partnership we tracked for its subsidiary…
• Onafriq Scales USDC Parallel Settlement Rail Across 40+ African Markets — Moving from the stablecoin infrastructure pilots and Nostro-replacement strategy we've tracked over the past month…
• MTN Group Reports $330.5 Billion in H1 2026 Fintech Transactions as Merchant Base Surges — MTN Group disclosed its H1 2026 financial results on Tuesday, August 25, recording 13 billion fintech transactions…
• National Bank of Rwanda Imposes Six-Month Moratorium on Non-Bank Fintech Licenses — The National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) instituted a six-month freeze on new non-deposit-taking financial service provider…
• Stablecoin Processor Clea Launches B2B Vendor Payout Tool for Import Corridors — Nigerian cross-border payments startup Clea introduced its 'Vendor Payments' feature on Tuesday, August 25, enabling…
• NITDA Inaugurates Sovereign Cloud Taskforce Ahead of CBN 2027 Onshore Mandate — With Nigerian fintechs already scrambling to meet the Central Bank's January 2027 onshore data localization deadline…
• Kenyan Lawmakers Propose Full VAT Exemption on Mobile Money Transfer Fees — Kenyan MPs submitted a legislative proposal on Wednesday, August 26, to fully exempt mobile money transfer fees from…
• Ghana Establishes Multi-Agency Virtual Assets Coordinating Committee Under Act 1154 — Bank of Ghana Governor Dr. Johnson Asiama inaugurated the Virtual Assets Coordinating Committee (VACC) on Tuesday…
• Zimperium Security Audit Identifies 30 Mobile Malware Strains Targeting African Banking Apps — Zimperium's zLabs published cybersecurity findings on Tuesday, August 25, documenting 30 active mobile malware families…
• South African Reserve Bank Draft Framework Opens Non-Bank Access to FMCG Retail Corridors — An analysis published Tuesday, August 25, details the impact of the South African Reserve Bank's draft authorization…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:11 Cassava Technologies and Circle Partner to Scale USDC Across Sasai Fintech Netw…
01:52 Moniepoint Winds Down UK Remittance Unit MonieWorld to Refocus Capital on Afric…
02:38 Onafriq Scales USDC Parallel Settlement Rail Across 40+ African Markets
03:19 MTN Group Reports $330.5 Billion in H1 2026 Fintech Transactions as Merchant Ba…
03:58 National Bank of Rwanda Imposes Six-Month Moratorium on Non-Bank Fintech Licens…
04:38 Stablecoin Processor Clea Launches B2B Vendor Payout Tool for Import Corridors
05:18 NITDA Inaugurates Sovereign Cloud Taskforce Ahead of CBN 2027 Onshore Mandate
06:01 Kenyan Lawmakers Propose Full VAT Exemption on Mobile Money Transfer Fees
06:40 Ghana Establishes Multi-Agency Virtual Assets Coordinating Committee Under Act…
07:17 Zimperium Security Audit Identifies 30 Mobile Malware Strains Targeting African…
08:01 South African Reserve Bank Draft Framework Opens Non-Bank Access to FMCG Retail…
08:44 Wrap-up

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• FirstBank Integrates PAPSS Across Digital Channels Following CBN FX Account Ruling — As West African cross-border traders increasingly bypass commercial banks for informal clearing networks to avoid…
• Blockradar Surpasses $1 Billion in Cumulative B2B Stablecoin Settlement Volume — Stablecoin developer infrastructure provider Blockradar announced on Monday that its platform has processed over $1…
• Stanbic Bank Ghana and Standard Bank Deploy Direct CIPS RMB Clearing Rails — Standard Bank's campaign to eliminate US dollar routing in Sino-African trade—which we've tracked through recent CIPS…
• Stitch Launches Integrated Shopify POS and Omnichannel Terminal Rails in South Africa — South African payment infrastructure provider Stitch announced the rollout of Express In-person payments on Monday…
• Kenya Cybercrime Committee Identifies Mobile Money in 50% of Computer Fraud Cases — Following the INTERPOL cyberthreat assessment we tracked earlier this month—which flagged East Africa as a primary hub…
• Razorpay Launches Production Vulcan AI Foundation Model for Transaction Optimization — Razorpay has formally branded the specialized payments foundation model we covered earlier this summer as 'Vulcan,'…
• Safaricom Directs Merchants to Dedicated Business Tills to Curb Unauthorized Reversals — Safaricom issued an advisory on Monday clarifying its M-Pesa transaction reversal policy following merchant complaints…
• EAC Inaugurates Technical Working Groups to Implement Cross-Border Payment Masterplan — The East African Community (EAC) inaugurated three Technical Working Groups (TWGs) on Saturday, August 22, following a…
• SARS Releases Draft Guidance Clarifying Crypto Disposal Taxes for Merchants and Traders — The South African Revenue Service (SARS) published draft tax guidance on Tuesday, August 25, detailing the treatment of…
• Global Bank Ethiopia Invites Tenders for 9,000 Interoperable National Merchant QR Terminals — Global Bank Ethiopia issued a competitive local tender on Sunday, August 23, to procure 9,000 printed national QR-code…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:28 Blockradar Surpasses $1 Billion in Cumulative B2B Stablecoin Settlement Volume
02:16 Stanbic Bank Ghana and Standard Bank Deploy Direct CIPS RMB Clearing Rails
03:05 Stitch Launches Integrated Shopify POS and Omnichannel Terminal Rails in South…
03:49 Kenya Cybercrime Committee Identifies Mobile Money in 50% of Computer Fraud Cas…
04:44 Razorpay Launches Production Vulcan AI Foundation Model for Transaction Optimiz…
05:37 Safaricom Directs Merchants to Dedicated Business Tills to Curb Unauthorized Re…
06:33 EAC Inaugurates Technical Working Groups to Implement Cross-Border Payment Mast…
07:15 SARS Releases Draft Guidance Clarifying Crypto Disposal Taxes for Merchants and…
08:01 Global Bank Ethiopia Invites Tenders for 9,000 Interoperable National Merchant…
08:40 Wrap-up

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• Nigeria's Central Bank Targets Regional Dominance and Stablecoin Remittance Rails in PSV 2028 Strategy — As part of the Payments System Vision 2028 roadmap we've been tracking—which targets a reduction in Sub-Saharan…
• Ecommerce Analysis Uncovers 68% Cart Abandonment in Kenya Driven by Checkout Friction — A checkout analysis published on Sunday revealed that online merchants in Kenya face a 68% cart abandonment rate due to…
• Mastercard and Moniepoint Subsidiary TeamApt Partner for Direct Non-Bank Acquiring Across Africa — Following the Central Bank of Nigeria's recent move to upgrade Moniepoint's license to national status, its subsidiary…
• CrissCross and Borderless Partner to Deliver Integrated Stablecoin Collections and Mobile Money FX — Cross-border payment infrastructure provider CrissCross announced a strategic partnership with New York-based…
• Coinbase's x402 Payment Protocol Reaches 165 Million Automated USDC Transactions for AI Micro-Billing — Reports published on Sunday show Coinbase's x402 payment protocol has processed over 165 million transactions totaling…
• Central Bank of Somalia Expands Instant Payment System to Bridge Mobile Money and Banks — The Central Bank of Somalia announced on Monday the expansion of the Somalia Instant Payment System (SIPS) to achieve…
• Busha Business Partners with Tether to Expand SEC-Licensed Stablecoin Settlement Rails — SEC-licensed crypto platform Busha Business announced a partnership with Tether on Monday to deploy USDt stablecoin…
• Interswitch Executive Discloses $100 Billion in Unlicensed Digital Asset Outflows from Nigeria — Speaking at a industry event on Friday, Akeem Lawal, Divisional CEO of Interswitch's Payment Processing and Switching…
• Bank of China and Kenya Bankers Association Expand Direct RMB Settlement Corridor in Nairobi — Financial leaders convened in Nairobi for the Bank of China's 2026 roadshow to expand direct RMB cross-border payment…
• Dual ML Architecture Demonstrates 0.0068% False Positive Rate in Inline Intrusion Prevention — An IEEE research paper published on Sunday detailed a dual-machine learning architecture designed to eliminate false…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:22 Ecommerce Analysis Uncovers 68% Cart Abandonment in Kenya Driven by Checkout Fr…
02:18 Mastercard and Moniepoint Subsidiary TeamApt Partner for Direct Non-Bank Acquir…
03:11 CrissCross and Borderless Partner to Deliver Integrated Stablecoin Collections…
04:08 Coinbase's x402 Payment Protocol Reaches 165 Million Automated USDC Transaction…
05:06 Central Bank of Somalia Expands Instant Payment System to Bridge Mobile Money a…
06:00 Busha Business Partners with Tether to Expand SEC-Licensed Stablecoin Settlemen…
06:51 Interswitch Executive Discloses $100 Billion in Unlicensed Digital Asset Outflo…
07:44 Bank of China and Kenya Bankers Association Expand Direct RMB Settlement Corrid…
08:35 Dual ML Architecture Demonstrates 0.0068% False Positive Rate in Inline Intrusi…
09:28 Wrap-up

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In this episode

• Nigerian SEC Introduces N2 Billion Capital Rule and N30 Million Fee for Crypto Operators — The Nigerian SEC has officially formalized the N2 billion minimum capital requirement for Digital Asset Exchanges and…
• Exorbitant Banking Fees Drive African Exporters into Informal Cash Networks Despite PAPSS Expansion — Reports published Saturday, August 22, highlight that West African cross-border merchants and Ghanaian exporters are…
• Kenya Lifts 33% Foreign Ownership Cap on Crypto Firms in Final VASP Rules — Following the Ksh300 million capital floor for stablecoin issuers we covered recently, Kenya's National Treasury has…
• Bank of Tanzania Finalizes Comprehensive Regulatory Concept for Digital Asset Operations — Tanzania's central bank has formally published the digital asset regulatory concept we noted it drafting earlier this…
• Legal Fragmentation and Contract Enforcement Delays Limit AfCFTA Trade Potential — A study cited by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce on Saturday, August 22, revealed that 65% of regional SMEs cite…
• Operational Analysis Exposes Cost and Loop Risks in AI-Driven Dispute Handling — An engineering analysis published Saturday, August 22, detailed the cost mechanics of deploying Large Language Models…
• Lagos Business School Forecasts Nigerian E-Commerce Market to Hit $16 Billion by 2030 — A report published Saturday, August 22, by Lagos Business School projects Nigeria's e-commerce market will grow from $7…
• South African Legal Analysis Examines Forex Control Scrutiny on Kastelo's Crypto Model — Legal updates on Saturday, August 22, regarding the South African Reserve Bank's ongoing freezing of fintech Kastelo's…
• Bank of Ghana Moves to Validate Mobile Money Data for SME Credit Under Open Banking — At National ICT Week on Saturday, August 22, Bank of Ghana Second Deputy Governor Matilda Asante-Asiedu announced plans…
• Visa Enrolls Hims & Hers in Acquirer Monitoring Program Over High Subscription Dispute Rates — Telehealth provider Hims & Hers was placed into Visa's Acquirer Monitoring Program (VAMP) on Friday, August 21, after…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:03 Exorbitant Banking Fees Drive African Exporters into Informal Cash Networks Des…
02:01 Kenya Lifts 33% Foreign Ownership Cap on Crypto Firms in Final VASP Rules
02:55 Bank of Tanzania Finalizes Comprehensive Regulatory Concept for Digital Asset O…
03:44 Legal Fragmentation and Contract Enforcement Delays Limit AfCFTA Trade Potential
04:34 Operational Analysis Exposes Cost and Loop Risks in AI-Driven Dispute Handling
05:24 Lagos Business School Forecasts Nigerian E-Commerce Market to Hit $16 Billion b…
06:07 South African Legal Analysis Examines Forex Control Scrutiny on Kastelo's Crypt…
06:48 Bank of Ghana Moves to Validate Mobile Money Data for SME Credit Under Open Ban…
07:30 Visa Enrolls Hims & Hers in Acquirer Monitoring Program Over High Subscription…
08:11 Wrap-up

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• Exorbitant Cross-Border Bank Fees Force Ghanaian Exporters into Parallel Forex Markets — On Friday, August 21, reports surfaced that Ghanaian exporter Amanex Company Limited faced routine account flags and…
• Central Bank of Kenya Enforces Legal Notice 134 Mandating Ksh300M Capital for Stablecoins — Following the Ksh300 million ($2.3 million) minimum capital threshold and Legal Notice gazetting we've been tracking…
• Central Bank of Nigeria Outlines PSV 2028 Strategy and Opens VASP Sandbox Cohort 2 — In updates published on Saturday, August 22, the Central Bank of Nigeria detailed its Payments System Vision (PSV) 2028…
• Nigerian FX Reserves Reach $52.5B as Parallel Market Spread Narrows to Two Percent — Building on the recent Central Bank SLF policy shifts that narrowed the parallel market spread below 2%, CBN Acting…
• Ericsson and MTN Complete Cloud-Native MoMo Platform Migration Across Four Markets — Ericsson and MTN Group Fintech announced on Friday, August 21, the completion of their Mobile Money Evolved migration…
• PawaPay Hits Three Billion Mobile Money Transactions as Merchant Payments Surge 42% — Payment aggregator PawaPay announced on Saturday, August 22, that its API infrastructure has processed over three…
• Security Audit Uncovers 50,000 Exposed Stripe API Keys Across Public Code Repositories — A cybersecurity assessment published by Ransomnews researchers on Thursday, August 20, identified over 50,000 active…
• Blockradar Reaches $1 Billion Cumulative Stablecoin Volume for B2B Enterprise Rails — Nigerian B2B wallet infrastructure provider Blockradar announced on Friday, August 21, that its cumulative transaction…
• Global Tier-1 Banks Deploy Ant International's FalconTST 2.0 AI Model for FX Forecasting — On Friday, August 21, Ant International deployed its Falcon Time-Series Transformer (TST) 2.0 AI model across major…
• Ghana SEC Expands Virtual Asset Sandbox to 20 Firms Testing Tokenized T-Bills and Trade Finance — Ghana's Securities and Exchange Commission expanded its Virtual Asset Regulatory Sandbox on Wednesday, August 19…
• Visa, Onafriq, and _able Launch Visa Flex Credential Across CEMEA Card Networks — Visa announced a regional partnership on Friday, August 21, with pan-African payment processor Onafriq and credit…
• Citi Appoints JPMorgan Veteran Andre Ross to Lead South African Corporate Banking Franchise — Citi announced on Friday, August 21, the appointment of former JPMorgan executive Andre Ross as Chief Country Officer…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:32 Central Bank of Kenya Enforces Legal Notice 134 Mandating Ksh300M Capital for S…
02:26 Central Bank of Nigeria Outlines PSV 2028 Strategy and Opens VASP Sandbox Cohor…
03:22 Nigerian FX Reserves Reach $52.5B as Parallel Market Spread Narrows to Two Perc…
04:16 Ericsson and MTN Complete Cloud-Native MoMo Platform Migration Across Four Mark…
05:08 PawaPay Hits Three Billion Mobile Money Transactions as Merchant Payments Surge…
06:01 Security Audit Uncovers 50,000 Exposed Stripe API Keys Across Public Code Repos…
06:53 Blockradar Reaches $1 Billion Cumulative Stablecoin Volume for B2B Enterprise R…
07:44 Global Tier-1 Banks Deploy Ant International's FalconTST 2.0 AI Model for FX Fo…
08:27 Ghana SEC Expands Virtual Asset Sandbox to 20 Firms Testing Tokenized T-Bills a…
09:11 Visa, Onafriq, and _able Launch Visa Flex Credential Across CEMEA Card Networks
09:55 Citi Appoints JPMorgan Veteran Andre Ross to Lead South African Corporate Banki…
10:35 Wrap-up

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• Gauteng High Court Upholds SARB's Freezing of Kastelo's Accounts Over R4 Billion FX Model — A Gauteng High Court ruling delivered on Tuesday, July 28, affirmed that the South African Reserve Bank's (SARB)…
• Nigerian Financial Operators Accelerate Migration Plans Ahead of 2027 Onshore Data Mandate — As we've tracked since the Central Bank of Nigeria first announced its January 2027 onshore data localization mandate…
• OPay Unveils Proprietary Real-Time AML Risk Engine Processing 5,000 Monitoring Rules — OPay continues to detail the AI fraud architecture we covered earlier this summer, deploying an in-house transaction…
• Safaricom Connects Fuliza Overdraft Facility to M-Pesa GlobalPay Virtual Visa Cards — Safaricom, in partnership with NCBA Bank and KCB Group, has enabled its Fuliza overdraft service on the M-Pesa…
• Mastercard Completes $1.8B BVNK Acquisition as Visa Issues RFP for Stablecoin Partner — Following Mastercard's acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure provider BVNK on August 3 for up to $1.8 billion, rival…
• Stripe Releases Adaptive Checkout using Machine Learning to Dynamically Rank Payment Stack — Stripe's Adaptive Checkout feature, which we noted during its beta rollout earlier this month, has reached general…
• NGX CEO Urges Policy Mandate to Compel Major Nigerian Fintechs to List Locally — Temi Popoola, CEO of the Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX), formally appealed to President Bola Tinubu to consider…
• Entersekt Report Calls for Continuous Authentication as South African Banks Face AI Fraud — Following yesterday's SAFPS data showing a massive spike in South African vishing attacks, a new Entersekt and ACFE…
• Yellow Card Expands Compliance Infrastructure and NFIU Reporting Following $40M Raise — Following the $40 million Series C and enterprise B2B pivot we tracked earlier this month, Yellow Card is detailing the…
• Nigeria Revenue Service Clarifies Tax Rules and Record Mandates for Crypto Operators — Expanding on the 1.5 percent stamp duty and TIN-collection mandates we covered throughout July, the Nigeria Revenue…
• Tax Appeals Tribunal Rules Against KRA in KSh15.7M Missing Trader VAT Dispute — Kenya's Tax Appeals Tribunal set aside a KSh15.76 million VAT assessment levied by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA)…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:07 Nigerian Financial Operators Accelerate Migration Plans Ahead of 2027 Onshore D…
01:57 OPay Unveils Proprietary Real-Time AML Risk Engine Processing 5,000 Monitoring…
02:45 Safaricom Connects Fuliza Overdraft Facility to M-Pesa GlobalPay Virtual Visa C…
03:34 Mastercard Completes $1.8B BVNK Acquisition as Visa Issues RFP for Stablecoin P…
04:23 Stripe Releases Adaptive Checkout using Machine Learning to Dynamically Rank Pa…
05:07 NGX CEO Urges Policy Mandate to Compel Major Nigerian Fintechs to List Locally
05:54 Entersekt Report Calls for Continuous Authentication as South African Banks Fac…
06:46 Yellow Card Expands Compliance Infrastructure and NFIU Reporting Following $40M…
07:34 Nigeria Revenue Service Clarifies Tax Rules and Record Mandates for Crypto Oper…
08:18 Tax Appeals Tribunal Rules Against KRA in KSh15.7M Missing Trader VAT Dispute
09:07 Wrap-up

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• Standard Bank Explores Stake in OPay Ahead of Potential $4 Billion US IPO — Standard Bank Group is in preliminary discussions to acquire an equity stake in Nigerian payment giant OPay.
• UnionPay and Standard Bank Expand E-Commerce Acceptance Across Nine African Markets — Standard Bank is further deepening its Asian commerce infrastructure—a strategy we've followed through its direct RMB…
• Bank of Italy Study Identifies Fiat Ramps as Primary Cost Bottleneck in Stablecoin Transfers — A study published Wednesday by the Bank of Italy analyzing real-world 200 USDC cross-border transfers found total…
• CBN Mandates October Deadline for Infrastructure and Risk System Upgrades Across Nigerian PSPs — The Central Bank of Nigeria is tightening technical requirements for the country's payment sector.
• Interswitch Reports Gross Revenue Surge to N137.5 Billion Driven by Switching Volume — Financial disclosures published Wednesday show Interswitch's annual gross revenue reached N137.5 billion, representing…
• SARS Replaces Interpretation Note 31 to Tighten Zero-Rating VAT Proof for Exporters — South Africa's revenue authority continues to systematically tighten transaction oversight.
• SAFPS Data Shows R7.44 Billion Saved as Vishing and Money Mule Attacks Surge in South Africa — The Southern African Fraud Prevention Service reported on Tuesday that shared database screening saved member financial…
• Manufacturers Association Urges CBN to Clear Matured Forex Forwards Backlog — The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria issued a statement on Tuesday appealing to the Central Bank of Nigeria to…
• Burundi Targets December 2026 EAPS Integration Following RTGS and BurundiPay Upgrades — The Bank of the Republic of Burundi committed on Friday to completing its technical link to the East African Payment…
• Ezeebit Integrates ZARU to Expand Localized Digital Asset Acceptance for South African Merchants — Payment processor Ezeebit integrated ZAR Universal Network (ZARU) into its gateway stack on Wednesday, enabling South…
• Rain Scales Invisible Stablecoin Backend Across 100,000 Merchant Outlets via Visa — Fintech infrastructure provider Rain announced on Wednesday that its stablecoin backend is now processing transactions…
• UKI Uganda Leverages Equity Bank Multi-Country Network to Bypass Third-Party Intermediaries — Ugandan manufacturer UKI Uganda Limited established direct collection account structures across Equity Bank's operating…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:13 UnionPay and Standard Bank Expand E-Commerce Acceptance Across Nine African Mar…
01:58 Bank of Italy Study Identifies Fiat Ramps as Primary Cost Bottleneck in Stablec…
02:47 CBN Mandates October Deadline for Infrastructure and Risk System Upgrades Acros…
03:33 Interswitch Reports Gross Revenue Surge to N137.5 Billion Driven by Switching V…
04:14 SARS Replaces Interpretation Note 31 to Tighten Zero-Rating VAT Proof for Expor…
04:58 SAFPS Data Shows R7.44 Billion Saved as Vishing and Money Mule Attacks Surge in…
05:40 Manufacturers Association Urges CBN to Clear Matured Forex Forwards Backlog
06:18 Burundi Targets December 2026 EAPS Integration Following RTGS and BurundiPay Up…
06:58 Ezeebit Integrates ZARU to Expand Localized Digital Asset Acceptance for South…
07:37 Rain Scales Invisible Stablecoin Backend Across 100,000 Merchant Outlets via Vi…
08:15 UKI Uganda Leverages Equity Bank Multi-Country Network to Bypass Third-Party In…
08:55 Wrap-up

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• Borderless.xyz Integrates CrissCross to Scale Direct Mobile Money and Bank Payouts — Stablecoin orchestration platform Borderless.xyz announced Tuesday that it integrated CrissCross as a Partner Financial…
• Global Platforms Throttle Kenya Cross-Border Transfers Over FATF AML Pressures — International payment operators including Sendwave, Wise, and Hurupay have restricted or suspended specific money…
• Afriex Secures Global Innovations Bank Sponsorship for Cross-Border B2B Rails — Cross-border fintech Afriex finalized a sponsor and settlement banking agreement with Global Innovations Bank on Monday.
• SARS Modernisation 3.0 Proposals Target Near Real-Time Digital VAT Reporting — The South African Revenue Service opened public consultation on Tuesday for its Modernisation 3.0 Digital VAT Model.
• Naira Rebounds to N1,349 as Central Bank SLF Policy Shift Unlocks Spot FX Liquidity — As we've tracked the stabilizing liquidity in Nigeria's official FX market, the Central Bank's recent removal of…
• AWS Releases Bedrock AgentCore Payments for Autonomous Micropayments — Following AWS's recent shift of developers toward its new 'AgentCore' framework, the cloud provider announced the…
• Payment Networks and Hyperscalers Launch Agentic Payments Alliance — Rain, Visa, Mastercard, Fiserv, Circle, and 20+ financial industry partners announced the launch of the Agentic…
• NCBA Cuts PesaLink Transfer Fees to Flat KSh 20 Under Interbank Push — Adding to the aggressive PesaLink fee cuts we've been tracking across the Kenyan banking sector, NCBA Bank updated its…
• Mauritius FSC Publishes Stablecoin Regulatory Guidance Framework — The Financial Services Commission of Mauritius issued formal regulatory guidance notes on Thursday establishing…
• OPay Upgrades Risk Engine with 5,000 Real-Time Rules and Liveness Detection — Building on the layered, AI-powered security architecture OPay recently detailed, the Nigerian fintech deployed a major…
• High Court Dismisses Kastelo Appeal in SARB R4B Exchange Control Freeze Case — Following up on the Reserve Bank's enforcement actions against Kastelo, the Johannesburg High Court dismissed the…
• Central Bank of Kenya Expands Staffing to Speed VASP Application Vetting — Following the recent formal gazetting of Kenya's digital asset and stablecoin capital rules, the Central Bank of Kenya…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:54 Global Platforms Throttle Kenya Cross-Border Transfers Over FATF AML Pressures
01:27 Afriex Secures Global Innovations Bank Sponsorship for Cross-Border B2B Rails
01:57 SARS Modernisation 3.0 Proposals Target Near Real-Time Digital VAT Reporting
03:02 AWS Releases Bedrock AgentCore Payments for Autonomous Micropayments
03:37 Payment Networks and Hyperscalers Launch Agentic Payments Alliance
04:07 NCBA Cuts PesaLink Transfer Fees to Flat KSh 20 Under Interbank Push
04:41 Mauritius FSC Publishes Stablecoin Regulatory Guidance Framework
05:42 High Court Dismisses Kastelo Appeal in SARB R4B Exchange Control Freeze Case
06:13 Central Bank of Kenya Expands Staffing to Speed VASP Application Vetting
06:44 Wrap-up

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• Currency Fragmentation and Converter Deficits Block Pan-African Instant Payment Networks — API-level connections for regional instant payment schemes like SADC's TCIB and GIMAC Pay are advancing, but Africa's…
• Razorpay Deploys Production AI Foundation Model for Payment Routing and Risk with AWS and NVIDIA — Following the recent rollouts of AI-adaptive checkouts by Stripe and Shopify, Razorpay has launched its own specialized…
• Stables and Access Bank South Africa Partner on USDt Cross-Border Settlement for Asia-Africa Trade — Stables has partnered with Access Bank South Africa to explore USDt-settled B2B payment rails connecting African…
• Forex Shortages Trap $90 Million in Overseas Revenue for Ethiopian Airlines — Ethiopian Airlines reported on Tuesday that $90 million in ticket revenue remains trapped abroad due to central bank…
• VALR CEO Challenges South Africa Exchange Control Models in Digital Rand Economy — VALR CEO Farzam Ehsani is escalating his pushback against the SARB's draft Crypto Asset Manual.
• Machine Learning Benchmark Identifies XGBoost as Top Fraud Model for Nigerian Mobile Money Rails — A study published Monday evaluating machine learning models on transaction datasets showed XGBoost achieving a 99.98%…
• FINBOA Launches Dispute Automation Integrated with Visa Verifi CDRN — FINBOA launched Recovery Assist on Monday, connecting its payment dispute engine directly to Visa's Verifi Cardholder…
• Nigeria IMTO Inflows Jump 45% to $1.29 Billion in Q1 2026 — Central Bank of Nigeria data published Monday shows official International Money Transfer Operator remittance inflows…
• Anglophone and Francophone West Africa Diverge on Crypto Regulatory Frameworks — A new industry report maps the growing regulatory fracture across West Africa: while Nigeria and Ghana push ahead with…
• Service Disruption Hits PayPal-to-M-Pesa Payout Rail in Kenya — Safaricom confirmed on Monday a technical disruption affecting the direct PayPal-to-M-Pesa transfer service in Kenya…
• Tanzania Mobile Payment Transactions Surge 28.3% Driven by Person-to-Business Growth — The Bank of Tanzania's 2025 report published Monday revealed mobile money volume rose 28.3% to 255.1 trillion…
• Sybrin Partners with Moti Engineering to Modernise Infrastructure Under Ethiopia Payment Strategy — Sybrin announced a partnership on Monday with Ethiopian ICT firm Moti Engineering to deploy workflow automation…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:10 Razorpay Deploys Production AI Foundation Model for Payment Routing and Risk wi…
01:53 Stables and Access Bank South Africa Partner on USDt Cross-Border Settlement fo…
02:30 Forex Shortages Trap $90 Million in Overseas Revenue for Ethiopian Airlines
03:07 VALR CEO Challenges South Africa Exchange Control Models in Digital Rand Economy
03:49 Machine Learning Benchmark Identifies XGBoost as Top Fraud Model for Nigerian M…
04:34 FINBOA Launches Dispute Automation Integrated with Visa Verifi CDRN
05:10 Nigeria IMTO Inflows Jump 45% to $1.29 Billion in Q1 2026
05:46 Anglophone and Francophone West Africa Diverge on Crypto Regulatory Frameworks
06:24 Service Disruption Hits PayPal-to-M-Pesa Payout Rail in Kenya
06:59 Tanzania Mobile Payment Transactions Surge 28.3% Driven by Person-to-Business G…
07:37 Sybrin Partners with Moti Engineering to Modernise Infrastructure Under Ethiopi…
08:17 Wrap-up

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In this episode

• SARB Accuses Fintech Kastelo of R4 Billion Exchange Control and Arbitrage Violations — The South African Reserve Bank alleges that fintech group Kastelo systematically circumvented foreign exchange controls…
• Nigerian Car Dealer Exposes Moniepoint KYC Flaws via Forged CAC Incorporation Data — A public breach exposure on Sunday revealed that fraudsters successfully opened a merchant account with Moniepoint…
• Central Bank of Kenya Gazettes Legal Notice No. 134 for Stablecoin Capital Rules — Following up on the Ksh300 million capital threshold we tracked earlier this month, the Central Bank of Kenya has…
• Safaricom Expands M-PESA Tap-to-Pay Rollout to Integrated Pesapal Terminals — Safaricom is extending the M-PESA Tap-to-Pay feature we covered recently beyond native mobile apps and into physical…
• NFIU Annual Report Details 42,082 Suspicious Activity Filings as VASP Oversight Expands — The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit released its 2025 Annual Report on Sunday, documenting 42,082 Suspicious…
• Stanbic Bank Tanzania Launches Direct RMB Settlement Rail via CIPS Integration — Standard Bank's campaign to bypass dollar intermediaries is expanding its East African footprint: its subsidiary…
• Plaude Defends $13.07 Million Forex Settlement Following Banking Partner Disruptions — Cross-border fintech Plaude Technologies issued a statement on Sunday addressing a disputed $13.07 million currency…
• Kaspersky Flags 50 Percent Surge in Mobile Banking Infostealer Attacks in South Africa — A Kaspersky threat report published Sunday revealed that mobile malware and credential infostealer attacks targeting…
• Onafriq Highlights Hybrid Banking and Stablecoin Architecture for Pre-Funding — Speaking on Sunday regarding cross-border treasury management, Onafriq CPO Rajat Mishra outlined how stablecoin…
• Union Bank Secures PCI DSS v4.0.1 Certification for Nigerian Card Acquiring Rails — Union Bank of Nigeria achieved PCI DSS version 4.0.1 compliance as a Service Provider, covering its payment processing…
• Nigerian Consumer Group Calls Out Unauthorized POS Fees Flouting Central Bank Rules — Civic organization Kaduna Youth for Good Governance issued a petition on Saturday claiming commercial banks and agent…
• Regulatory Analysis Weighs Macro Risks of Stablecoin Dollarization in African Commerce — An industry report published Sunday examines the tension between merchant demand for stablecoin settlement and central…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:04 Nigerian Car Dealer Exposes Moniepoint KYC Flaws via Forged CAC Incorporation D…
01:50 Central Bank of Kenya Gazettes Legal Notice No. 134 for Stablecoin Capital Rules
02:32 Safaricom Expands M-PESA Tap-to-Pay Rollout to Integrated Pesapal Terminals
03:15 NFIU Annual Report Details 42,082 Suspicious Activity Filings as VASP Oversight…
03:56 Stanbic Bank Tanzania Launches Direct RMB Settlement Rail via CIPS Integration
04:36 Plaude Defends $13.07 Million Forex Settlement Following Banking Partner Disrup…
05:13 Kaspersky Flags 50 Percent Surge in Mobile Banking Infostealer Attacks in South…
05:54 Onafriq Highlights Hybrid Banking and Stablecoin Architecture for Pre-Funding
06:30 Union Bank Secures PCI DSS v4.0.1 Certification for Nigerian Card Acquiring Rai…
07:06 Nigerian Consumer Group Calls Out Unauthorized POS Fees Flouting Central Bank R…
07:43 Regulatory Analysis Weighs Macro Risks of Stablecoin Dollarization in African C…
08:16 Wrap-up

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• Fylings Launches Pan-African KYB Platform Covering 20 Markets — Nigerian startup Fylings rolled out a business data verification platform on Saturday, August 15, aggregating corporate…
• South African Reserve Bank Ends PASA Self-Regulation to Direct Payment System — Following up on the Reserve Bank's move to strip the Payments Association of South Africa of its oversight authority we…
• VALR and Onafriq Partner to Deliver Direct Fiat-to-Crypto On-Ramps Across Africa — Crypto exchange VALR and pan-African payment network Onafriq announced a partnership on Sunday, August 16, to enable…
• Nigeria SEC Grants Sandbox Approvals to Yellow Card, Pisi, and BC Access — Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission granted Approval-in-Principle on Thursday to Pisi Payment Solutions, BC…
• NIBSS Rollout of National Payment Stack Reaches 26.5M Transactions — Building on recent infrastructure deployments, the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System confirmed on Saturday, August…
• Algeria Cuts Non-Hydrocarbon Export Revenue Repatriation Window to 180 Days — The Bank of Algeria issued updated foreign currency regulations on Saturday, August 15, reducing the maximum…
• Nigerian Financial Sector Grapples with 2027 Data Onshoring Mandate — As the January 2027 onshore data localization deadline we've been tracking approaches, Nigerian financial institutions…
• Fiserv and Stuut Deploy Agentic AI for Enterprise Accounts Receivable — Fiserv announced a partnership with Stuut Technologies on Wednesday, August 5, integrating autonomous AI agents into…
• Safaricom Directs Merchants to USSD Channel Following M-PESA Business App Malfunction — Safaricom issued a technical update on Saturday, August 15, following an outage on its M-PESA for Business mobile…
• Kenyan Commercial Banks Accelerate PesaLink and KEPSS Upgrades — Following the recent coalition fee cuts and PAPSS integration we tracked for Kenya's PesaLink, local commercial banks…
• Spendin Expands Payment Network Across Four Francophone West African Markets — Fintech startup Spendin announced on Sunday, August 16, the expansion of its merchant acquiring network into Senegal…
• Ghana Reviews AfCFTA Trade in Services Framework to Align Financial Regulations — Ghana's Ministry of Trade convened a regulatory review workshop on Saturday, August 15, to align domestic financial and…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:50 South African Reserve Bank Ends PASA Self-Regulation to Direct Payment System
01:29 VALR and Onafriq Partner to Deliver Direct Fiat-to-Crypto On-Ramps Across Africa
02:06 Nigeria SEC Grants Sandbox Approvals to Yellow Card, Pisi, and BC Access
02:46 NIBSS Rollout of National Payment Stack Reaches 26.5M Transactions
03:23 Algeria Cuts Non-Hydrocarbon Export Revenue Repatriation Window to 180 Days
04:02 Nigerian Financial Sector Grapples with 2027 Data Onshoring Mandate
04:42 Fiserv and Stuut Deploy Agentic AI for Enterprise Accounts Receivable
05:17 Safaricom Directs Merchants to USSD Channel Following M-PESA Business App Malfu…
05:57 Kenyan Commercial Banks Accelerate PesaLink and KEPSS Upgrades
06:33 Spendin Expands Payment Network Across Four Francophone West African Markets
07:07 Ghana Reviews AfCFTA Trade in Services Framework to Align Financial Regulations
07:40 Wrap-up

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• South Africa Proposes ZAR 5,000 Cap for Crypto-Backed Regional Remittances — Adding a new constraint to the draft Crypto Asset Manual we've been tracking, the South African National Treasury and…
• CBN Lifts Standing Lending Facility Limits to Ease Nigerian FX Market Liquidity — Following the Central Bank of Nigeria's recent interventions to boost official foreign exchange market liquidity, a new…
• Yellow Card Outlines Operational Details of Shifting B2C Exchange to Enterprise Infrastructure — Following its $40 million Series C raise, stablecoin provider Yellow Card clarified on Friday, August 14, that the…
• Insider Fraud Clustering in Francophone Africa Exposes Multi-Month Auditing Latency — Reports published on Friday, August 14, reveal that four major Francophone West African payment processors, including…
• Safaricom Activates In-App NFC Tap-to-Pay for M-PESA Merchant App in Kenya — Continuing its merchant payment push against Airtel's new Bizna Wallet, Safaricom launched an in-app 'Tap to Pay'…
• Maverick Payments Embeds Autonomous AI Dispute Engine for Merchant Chargebacks — As we noted yesterday, payments processor Maverick Payments has officially integrated Findustry AI's autonomous…
• Pepkor Merges Flash and Shop2Shop into R21.3 Billion Merchant Platform — South African retail giant Pepkor announced on Friday, August 14, the consolidation of its informal-market fintech unit…
• Nigerian Banks Promote CBN Form Q to Broaden SME Access to Official FX — Nigerian commercial banks stepped up marketing on Friday, August 14, for the Central Bank of Nigeria's Form Q facility…
• Chainalysis Data Uncovers Illicit Underground Stablecoin Corridors across Sub-Saharan Markets — A Chainalysis report published on Friday, August 14, revealed the expansion of Chinese-language money laundering…
• Mastercard Integrates Moniepoint Subsidiary TeamApt as Direct Non-Bank Acquirer — Building on its recent national license upgrade from the CBN, Moniepoint subsidiary TeamApt finalized an agreement on…
• AfCFTA Partners on $3.1 Billion Continental Digital Customs System — The AfCFTA Secretariat entered a $3.1 billion partnership with Bergmans Security Consultants on Friday, August 14, to…
• IFC Injects $25 Million Equity into Jumia to Expand Regional Seller Infrastructure — Hot on the heels of Jumia Kenya reporting record Q2 sales yesterday, the International Finance Corporation announced a…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:06 CBN Lifts Standing Lending Facility Limits to Ease Nigerian FX Market Liquidity
01:53 Yellow Card Outlines Operational Details of Shifting B2C Exchange to Enterprise…
02:36 Insider Fraud Clustering in Francophone Africa Exposes Multi-Month Auditing Lat…
03:19 Safaricom Activates In-App NFC Tap-to-Pay for M-PESA Merchant App in Kenya
04:00 Maverick Payments Embeds Autonomous AI Dispute Engine for Merchant Chargebacks
04:35 Pepkor Merges Flash and Shop2Shop into R21.3 Billion Merchant Platform
05:17 Nigerian Banks Promote CBN Form Q to Broaden SME Access to Official FX
05:53 Chainalysis Data Uncovers Illicit Underground Stablecoin Corridors across Sub-S…
06:33 Mastercard Integrates Moniepoint Subsidiary TeamApt as Direct Non-Bank Acquirer
07:07 AfCFTA Partners on $3.1 Billion Continental Digital Customs System
07:38 IFC Injects $25 Million Equity into Jumia to Expand Regional Seller Infrastruct…
08:14 Wrap-up

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• Flutterwave Partners with Caliza for Global USD Accounts and Stablecoin Rails — Flutterwave announced a strategic partnership with infrastructure provider Caliza on Thursday, August 13, enabling its…
• Standard Bank Reaches $1.2 Billion in Direct RMB Settlement Volume via CIPS — Following the direct CIPS integrations we've tracked for Standard Bank subsidiaries in Kenya and Ghana, the banking…
• TeamApt Secures Direct Mastercard Non-Bank Acquirer Access in Nigeria — Moniepoint subsidiary TeamApt Limited secured direct access to Mastercard's global network as a non-bank acquirer on…
• Flutterwave Partners with Abuja Investments for Municipal Digital Revenue Acquiring — Flutterwave signed a partnership with Abuja Investments Company Limited (AICL) on Thursday, August 13, to digitize…
• Kenya's VASP Capital Requirements Trigger Relocation Concerns for Early-Stage Startups — Despite Kenya's recent move to lower the capital requirement for stablecoin issuers to KSh 300 million under its newly…
• Maverick Payments Deploys Autonomous AI Agent for Chargeback Rebuttals — Payments infrastructure provider Maverick Payments integrated Findustry AI's Chargeback Agent into its white-label…
• Lagos Court Upholds Foreign Currency Obligations and Dollar Loan Repayments — The Court of Appeal in Lagos delivered a judgment on Thursday, August 13, upholding the contractual right of the…
• Jumia Kenya Reaches Record Q2 Sales as Category Shifts Offset Device Supply Issues — Jumia Kenya reported record second-quarter sales of Sh6.4 billion ($49.7 million) on Thursday, August 13, supported by…
• Airtel Uganda Urges Mandated SIM-Swap Check APIs and Device Binding — Speaking at the UCC National Cybersecurity Conference on Thursday, August 13, Airtel Money Uganda Managing Director…
• M-Pesa GlobalPay Card Deduction Glitch Highlights Support Deficits in Cross-Border Checkout — An unresolvable customer deduction error on Safaricom's M-Pesa GlobalPay virtual Visa card on Friday, August 14…
• South African Payment Ecosystem Faces Heightened RAT and Deepfake Threat Vectors — A threat assessment published Thursday, August 13, details escalating payment fraud tactics targeting South African…
• Ghana Launches Central Bank-Backed MoMo FinTech Lab for Ecosystem Interoperability — MobileMoney FinTech Limited launched the MoMo FinTech Lab in Ghana on Wednesday, August 12, with support from the Bank…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:02 Standard Bank Reaches $1.2 Billion in Direct RMB Settlement Volume via CIPS
01:53 TeamApt Secures Direct Mastercard Non-Bank Acquirer Access in Nigeria
02:33 Flutterwave Partners with Abuja Investments for Municipal Digital Revenue Acqui…
03:12 Kenya's VASP Capital Requirements Trigger Relocation Concerns for Early-Stage S…
04:01 Maverick Payments Deploys Autonomous AI Agent for Chargeback Rebuttals
04:37 Lagos Court Upholds Foreign Currency Obligations and Dollar Loan Repayments
05:17 Jumia Kenya Reaches Record Q2 Sales as Category Shifts Offset Device Supply Iss…
05:53 Airtel Uganda Urges Mandated SIM-Swap Check APIs and Device Binding
06:36 M-Pesa GlobalPay Card Deduction Glitch Highlights Support Deficits in Cross-Bor…
07:15 South African Payment Ecosystem Faces Heightened RAT and Deepfake Threat Vectors
07:56 Ghana Launches Central Bank-Backed MoMo FinTech Lab for Ecosystem Interoperabil…
08:33 Wrap-up

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In this episode

• CBN Issues Comprehensive Circular Mandating Acquiring Caps and 2027 Data Onshoring — The Central Bank of Nigeria formalized its market concentration caps on Wednesday, August 12, explicitly restricting…
• TurnStay Surpasses ZAR1 Billion Volume via Merchant-of-Record and Stablecoin Hybrid Rails — South African travel checkout startup TurnStay announced on Wednesday, August 12, that it has processed over ZAR 1…
• Silicon Overdrive Deploys AWS Containerized Architecture and USSD Routing for Oye — AWS partner Silicon Overdrive published details on Tuesday, August 11, regarding its cloud infrastructure build for Oye…
• NIBSS Processes N1.4 Trillion on New National Payment Stack Ahead of Legacy Switch Retirement — The Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System announced on Wednesday, August 12, that its ISO 20022-compliant National…
• Blockops Network Launches Onchain Stacks API for African Corridor Routing — Nigerian fintech Blockops Network unveiled Onchain Stacks on Wednesday, August 12.
• African Stablecoin Infrastructure Providers Expand Out-of-Region Amid Regulatory Friction — An industry report published Wednesday, August 12, details how African B2B stablecoin processors are expanding…
• Bootstrapped Gateway Bani Scales Single API to Bypass Correspondent Banking Chains — In a media briefing on Wednesday, August 12, cross-border infrastructure startup Bani outlined the expansion of its…
• High Court Denies CBK Bid to Exit M-Pesa Mobile Money Fraud Lawsuit — Kenya's High Court ruled on Wednesday, August 12, that the Central Bank of Kenya cannot remove itself as a…
• CBN Data Shows Digital Payment Fraud Losses Halved to $19M Following Identity Integration — Confirming the N25.85 billion total we noted in July's independent reporting, official figures published by the Central…
• ACFE Report Ranks South Africa Highest in Sub-Saharan Occupational Fraud Cases — The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners released its 2026 Sub-Saharan report on Wednesday, August 12.
• CBN Adjusts Discount Window Rules to Ease Money Market and FX Liquidity Constraints — The Central Bank of Nigeria published policy adjustments on Wednesday, August 12, relaxing access restrictions at its…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:12 TurnStay Surpasses ZAR1 Billion Volume via Merchant-of-Record and Stablecoin Hy…
01:54 Silicon Overdrive Deploys AWS Containerized Architecture and USSD Routing for O…
02:38 NIBSS Processes N1.4 Trillion on New National Payment Stack Ahead of Legacy Swi…
03:21 Blockops Network Launches Onchain Stacks API for African Corridor Routing
04:04 African Stablecoin Infrastructure Providers Expand Out-of-Region Amid Regulator…
04:44 Bootstrapped Gateway Bani Scales Single API to Bypass Correspondent Banking Cha…
05:22 High Court Denies CBK Bid to Exit M-Pesa Mobile Money Fraud Lawsuit
06:04 CBN Data Shows Digital Payment Fraud Losses Halved to $19M Following Identity I…
06:48 ACFE Report Ranks South Africa Highest in Sub-Saharan Occupational Fraud Cases
07:27 CBN Adjusts Discount Window Rules to Ease Money Market and FX Liquidity Constra…
08:02 Wrap-up

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• SARB Takes Direct Regulatory Control of South African National Payment System — On Tuesday, August 11, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) formally withdrew its recognition of the Payments…
• Central Bank of Nigeria Opens Second Regulatory Sandbox Cohort for VASPs and Stablecoins — The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced on Tuesday, August 11, that applications will open August 12 for its second…
• Nigerian Banks Ease International Transaction Limits on Local Debit Cards — In an update published Tuesday, August 11, Nigerian commercial banks have begun relaxing restrictive monthly foreign…
• Stablecoin-Backed Cards Scale Across African Retail Outlets via Visa and Mastercard Rails — A industry update on Tuesday, August 11, highlights that providers like MiniPay, Bitget Wallet, and Busha are rapidly…
• Kenya Imposes Mandatory Physical Cafe Customer Records to Fight Mobile Money Fraud — Expanding on the push to treat SIMs as banking credentials that we noted earlier this week, the Communications…
• FSCA Warns DeFi Poses Regulatory Risk as South African CASP Licensing Reaches 300 — Speaking on Tuesday, August 11, FSCA Commissioner Unathi Kamlana confirmed that South Africa has licensed over 300…
• SARS Sets R10 Billion Revenue Threshold for Cross-Border Advanced Pricing Agreements — The South African Revenue Service (SARS) announced on Monday, August 10, that it has lowered the annual revenue…
• MultiChoice Spin-Out Moment Secures $22 Million Series A for Subscription Billing Infrastructure — Following up on the $22 million Series A led by AlphaCode Venture Partners we tracked recently, MultiChoice spin-out…
• SeerBit Plugs PayPal directly into Cross-Border African Checkout Engine — In an update published Tuesday, August 11, pan-African payment processor SeerBit integrated PayPal into its unified…
• AfCFTA Appoints Customs Subsidiary for Regional Digital Trade Infrastructure Deployment — AfCFTA selected Nigerian-owned AfriTrade CMP Limited on Tuesday, August 11, to lead a 20-year digital customs…
• Central Bank of Kenya Holds Benchmark Interest Rate at 8.75 Percent — The Central Bank of Kenya's Monetary Policy Committee announced on Tuesday, August 11, that it is maintaining the…
• Tanzania Overhauls Digital Legal Frameworks to Attract Fintech Capital — Tanzanian legal authorities confirmed on Tuesday, August 11, that the government is revising investment and financial…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:46 Central Bank of Nigeria Opens Second Regulatory Sandbox Cohort for VASPs and St…
01:19 Nigerian Banks Ease International Transaction Limits on Local Debit Cards
01:49 Stablecoin-Backed Cards Scale Across African Retail Outlets via Visa and Master…
02:50 FSCA Warns DeFi Poses Regulatory Risk as South African CASP Licensing Reaches 3…
03:22 SARS Sets R10 Billion Revenue Threshold for Cross-Border Advanced Pricing Agree…
03:55 MultiChoice Spin-Out Moment Secures $22 Million Series A for Subscription Billi…
04:27 SeerBit Plugs PayPal directly into Cross-Border African Checkout Engine
04:57 AfCFTA Appoints Customs Subsidiary for Regional Digital Trade Infrastructure De…
05:29 Central Bank of Kenya Holds Benchmark Interest Rate at 8.75 Percent
06:28 Wrap-up

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• PayPal Extends PYUSD Stablecoin Distribution Across 27 African Markets — PayPal announced Monday that it is expanding access to its USD-backed stablecoin, PYUSD, across 27 African markets as…
• SeerBit Integrates PayPal to Expand Global Checkout Acceptance for African Merchants — Pan-African payment gateway SeerBit integrated PayPal into its checkout stack on Monday, enabling merchants across its…
• South Africa Competition Watchdog Approves Capitec-Walletdoc Deal with Open-Access Conditions — South Africa's Competition Commission recommended approval on Monday for Capitec Bank's R400 million acquisition of…
• IMF Policy Report Flags Reserve Quality and Redemption Gaps in Emerging Market Stablecoin Frameworks — Following yesterday's remarks from IMF official Dan Katz regarding rand-backed stablecoin capital flight, the Fund…
• Nigeria FX Market Weekly Volume Reaches $3.73B dominated by Spot Settlement — Nigerian foreign exchange turnover settled at $3.73 billion for the week ended August 7—down from the $4.38 billion…
• Paytm Integrates Anthropic Claude via Model Context Protocol for Merchant Reconciliation — Paytm Payment Gateway deployed an integration on Monday using Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) to let merchants…
• Industry Framework Outlines Implementation Strategy for Agentic Payments in African B2B Logistics — Echoing Mastercard's recent infrastructure pivot toward B2B procurement for 'agentic commerce,' a new newsletter…
• Report Highlights Stablecoin Pivot to Invisible Back-End Rails for African SME Treasury — Building on the enterprise treasury pivot we've tracked with providers like Bitlipa and Yellow Card, a new Breet…
• East Africa Mobile Money Assessment Flags Operational Frictions in Cross-Network Transfers — Following yesterday's engineering breakdown of M-Pesa Daraja API production edge cases, a new technical assessment…
• African Union and UN Report Advocates Digital Single Windows to Reduce Regional Trade Costs — Adding to the regulatory obstacles impeding AfCFTA trade that we tracked over the weekend, the 2026 Africa Sustainable…
• Nigerian Commercial Banks Adjust Foreign Spending Caps Under Updated Central Bank Directives — Following the liquidity surge we noted yesterday that enabled commercial banks like GTCo to raise international card…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:07 SeerBit Integrates PayPal to Expand Global Checkout Acceptance for African Merc…
01:49 South Africa Competition Watchdog Approves Capitec-Walletdoc Deal with Open-Acc…
02:34 IMF Policy Report Flags Reserve Quality and Redemption Gaps in Emerging Market…
03:15 Nigeria FX Market Weekly Volume Reaches $3.73B dominated by Spot Settlement
03:52 Paytm Integrates Anthropic Claude via Model Context Protocol for Merchant Recon…
04:31 Industry Framework Outlines Implementation Strategy for Agentic Payments in Afr…
05:07 Report Highlights Stablecoin Pivot to Invisible Back-End Rails for African SME…
05:45 East Africa Mobile Money Assessment Flags Operational Frictions in Cross-Networ…
06:22 African Union and UN Report Advocates Digital Single Windows to Reduce Regional…
07:01 Nigerian Commercial Banks Adjust Foreign Spending Caps Under Updated Central Ba…
07:34 Wrap-up

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• VALR CEO Warns South Africa's Draft Crypto Rules Threaten Cross-Border Commerce — Adding to the industry pushback we saw from Luno last week, VALR CEO Farzam Ehsani warned on Sunday that South Africa's…
• cNGN Stablecoin Scales to …214B in Volume on Celo Rails — Following its launch last week, WrappedCBDC's naira-backed stablecoin cNGN has achieved a circulating supply of …2.5…
• Nigerian FX Inflows Surge 59% in July as Banks Raise Card Spending Caps — Providing the macroeconomic context for why commercial banks like GTCo are suddenly raising international card spending…
• Moment Closes $22M Series A to Expand Pan-African Merchant Infrastructure — Cape Town-based payment infrastructure provider Moment announced Sunday that it secured a $22 million Series A funding…
• Uneven UMOA Banking Law Adoption Creates Two-Speed West African Market — West Africa's ongoing banking reform has created regulatory divergence across the UMOA monetary zone, with only Senegal…
• AgentPay Debuts Multi-Protocol Abstraction Layer for AI Transactions — As autonomous transaction frameworks like the x402 standard and the Stripe-backed MPP gain traction, OSL Group has…
• BCG Report Outlines Agentic AI Threats to East African Payment Networks — A new Boston Consulting Group report details how emerging agentic AI tools allow cybercriminals to automate entire…
• IMF Details Dollarization Risks Associated with Rand-Backed Stablecoins — Providing intellectual cover for Pretoria's proposed ban on corporate crypto transfers, IMF official Dan Katz warned…
• Foreign Tech Inflows Target Nigerian Infrastructure Ahead of Data Onshoring Deadline — With Nigerian fintechs struggling to meet the Central Bank's looming January 2027 onshore data localization deadline…
• Developer Analysis Highlights M-Pesa Production Integration Traps — A engineering breakdown published Sunday detailed critical operational edge cases when scaling M-Pesa Daraja API…
• Calls Mount in Kenya to Regulate SIM Credentials under Banking Frameworks — Rising SIM-swap fraud and mobile money impersonation in Kenya have prompted industry analysts to advocate treating…
• AFRICLOUD Integrates Local Mobile Money Billing Across 11 African Countries — Regional hosting provider AFRICLOUD has enabled native mobile money payment acceptance across 11 African markets…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:13 cNGN Stablecoin Scales to …214B in Volume on Celo Rails
01:56 Nigerian FX Inflows Surge 59% in July as Banks Raise Card Spending Caps
02:36 Moment Closes $22M Series A to Expand Pan-African Merchant Infrastructure
03:12 Uneven UMOA Banking Law Adoption Creates Two-Speed West African Market
03:52 AgentPay Debuts Multi-Protocol Abstraction Layer for AI Transactions
04:34 BCG Report Outlines Agentic AI Threats to East African Payment Networks
05:08 IMF Details Dollarization Risks Associated with Rand-Backed Stablecoins
05:42 Foreign Tech Inflows Target Nigerian Infrastructure Ahead of Data Onshoring Dea…
06:13 Developer Analysis Highlights M-Pesa Production Integration Traps
06:44 Calls Mount in Kenya to Regulate SIM Credentials under Banking Frameworks
07:14 AFRICLOUD Integrates Local Mobile Money Billing Across 11 African Countries

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• Visa and M-Pesa Launch Stablecoin Pilot for Cross-Border Settlement in DRC — Expanding on the enterprise stablecoin platform it launched last month, Visa has partnered with Vodacom's M-Pesa in the…
• Coinbase Deploys Base AgentKit for Automated AI Micro-Payments — Following its initial adoption of the open-source x402 standard last month, Coinbase has rolled out Base AgentKit on…
• Sudan Restores National Payment Switch After Three-Year Disruption — Sudan's National Payment Switch has officially re-entered service after a three-year outage caused by armed conflict…
• AfDB Report Flags Exchange Controls as Barrier to Ethiopian Trade Integration — Adding to the structural trade bottlenecks we've been tracking, a newly released macro-fiscal assessment from the…
• Safaricom Reaffirms Optional Status for M-Pesa Wealth Management Products — Following widespread user confusion on social channels, Safaricom issued a public clarification confirming that…
• Industry Report Details Regulatory Bottlenecks Impeding AfCFTA Trade Infrastructure — A new industry report published Saturday outlines how conflicting national licensing requirements, unaligned dispute…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:57 Coinbase Deploys Base AgentKit for Automated AI Micro-Payments
01:41 Sudan Restores National Payment Switch After Three-Year Disruption
02:21 AfDB Report Flags Exchange Controls as Barrier to Ethiopian Trade Integration
03:06 Safaricom Reaffirms Optional Status for M-Pesa Wealth Management Products
03:47 Industry Report Details Regulatory Bottlenecks Impeding AfCFTA Trade Infrastruc…
04:31 Wrap-up

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• Naira Stablecoin cNGN Launches on Celo Blockchain with Cross-Chain FX Settlement — WrappedCBDC on Friday launched its naira-backed stablecoin, cNGN, on the Celo blockchain, integrating with cross-chain…
• IMF Warns Emerging Market Stablecoin Inflows Threaten Central Bank Monetary Control — In a speech delivered Friday at the University of Cape Town, IMF First Deputy Managing Director Dan Katz warned that…
• South Africa Proposes Draft Rules Banning Corporate Cross-Border Crypto Transfers — Following the draft Crypto Asset Manual we tracked earlier this week, South African crypto exchanges are now warning…
• Bitlipa Unveils Unified API for Instant Stablecoin Settlement Across 18 African Markets — Velex Investments-backed Bitlipa on Friday launched a stablecoin-powered settlement API connecting 10 licensed PSPs and…
• Busha Business and Tether Partner on Compliant Stablecoin Infrastructure for SMEs — Busha Business partnered with Tether on Saturday to integrate stablecoin payment infrastructure into its SEC-licensed…
• Clea Launches Vendor Payment Tool for Direct International Merchant Settlement — Fintech platform Clea launched a new Vendor Payments product on Friday, enabling African businesses to fund accounts…
• Nigerian Commercial Banks Increase Dollar Spending Limits on Local Cards — Commercial banks in Nigeria, led by GTBank expanding quarterly limits to $20,000, are raising international card…
• Rand-Backed Stablecoin ZARU Lists on Luno Global for On-Chain Trading — BlockTower's ZARU stablecoin was listed on Luno Global on Friday, establishing direct trading pairs against USDT and…
• High Court Case Against CBK and Safaricom Challenges Mobile Money Security Liability — A landmark constitutional petition cleared by Kenya's High Court on Friday targets CBK and Safaricom over systemic…
• Tanzania Amends FX Rules to Allow Overseas Investors Full Access to Debt Markets — Tanzania gazetted amendments to its Foreign Exchange Regulations on Friday, opening its Treasury bills and bonds to all…
• Pesapal Partners with UnionPay International to Scale East African Card Acceptance — Pesapal partnered with UnionPay International on Friday to deploy card processing across 3,000 retail points of sale in…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:08 IMF Warns Emerging Market Stablecoin Inflows Threaten Central Bank Monetary Con…
01:49 South Africa Proposes Draft Rules Banning Corporate Cross-Border Crypto Transfe…
02:31 Bitlipa Unveils Unified API for Instant Stablecoin Settlement Across 18 African…
03:15 Busha Business and Tether Partner on Compliant Stablecoin Infrastructure for SM…
04:11 Nigerian Commercial Banks Increase Dollar Spending Limits on Local Cards
04:42 Rand-Backed Stablecoin ZARU Lists on Luno Global for On-Chain Trading
05:44 Tanzania Amends FX Rules to Allow Overseas Investors Full Access to Debt Markets
06:41 Wrap-up

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• South Africa Proposes New Law Giving Banks Power to Freeze Tax Refunds — South Africa's National Treasury has published a draft bill that would give banks a formal role in helping the South…
• Nigeria's Naira Plunges to N1,410 on Parallel Market Amid Depleting Reserves — Contradicting the recent stabilization and narrowing rate gap we've tracked following CBN interventions, the Nigerian…
• Signifyd Report: AI Drives 33% Surge in Ecommerce Fraud Pressure, ATO Attacks Up 78% — Signifyd's 2026 State of Fraud Report, released Thursday, reveals a 33% increase in e-commerce fraud pressure in the…
• INTERPOL: AI Involved in 55% of African Cybercrime, Losses Double to $484M — INTERPOL's full 2026 African Cyberthreat Assessment adds geographic granularity to the 55% AI-involvement rate and $484…
• Report: False Declines Cost South African Banks $160,000 Annually in Lost Interchange — A new report from BPC indicates that South African banks could be losing an estimated $160,000 annually in interchange…
• Analysis: The Future of AI in Finance Is Documented 'Human-in-the-Loop' Oversight — An analysis in Forbes highlights a rapid shift in AI governance, moving from experimentation to a focus on practical…
• Egypt Leads African De-Dollarization Trend, Shifting Trade to Yuan and Local Currencies — According to a report from The Economist, African nations, with Egypt at the forefront, are actively accelerating their…
• Interswitch and Temenos Deepen Partnership with CBN to Modernize Nigeria's Banking Tech — Interswitch Group and Swiss banking software firm Temenos announced on Thursday they are expanding their partnership…
• US Court Overturns Ban on Perplexity's AI Shopping Agent, Setting Precedent for Agentic Commerce — A US appeals court on Wednesday overturned a temporary ban against Perplexity, allowing its AI-powered shopping tools…
• Analysis: As Stablecoins Go Mainstream, Focus Shifts to FX and Local Currency Settlement — As stablecoins gain traction for payments, particularly with initiatives like Visa's Stablecoin Platform, a new…
• CLEA Launches Stablecoin-Powered Vendor Payments for African Businesses — African cross-border fintech CLEA has launched a new vendor payment solution, allowing African businesses to pay…
• Experts Warn Kenya's New Crypto Rules Could Increase Transaction Costs and Fragment the Market — Following the gazetting of Kenya's new Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP) Regulations, experts are warning of…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:56 Nigeria's Naira Plunges to N1,410 on Parallel Market Amid Depleting Reserves
01:37 Signifyd Report: AI Drives 33% Surge in Ecommerce Fraud Pressure, ATO Attacks U…
02:11 INTERPOL: AI Involved in 55% of African Cybercrime, Losses Double to $484M
02:49 Report: False Declines Cost South African Banks $160,000 Annually in Lost Inter…
03:25 Analysis: The Future of AI in Finance Is Documented 'Human-in-the-Loop' Oversig…
03:59 Egypt Leads African De-Dollarization Trend, Shifting Trade to Yuan and Local Cu…
04:32 Interswitch and Temenos Deepen Partnership with CBN to Modernize Nigeria's Bank…
05:05 US Court Overturns Ban on Perplexity's AI Shopping Agent, Setting Precedent for…
05:42 Analysis: As Stablecoins Go Mainstream, Focus Shifts to FX and Local Currency S…
06:14 CLEA Launches Stablecoin-Powered Vendor Payments for African Businesses
06:46 Experts Warn Kenya's New Crypto Rules Could Increase Transaction Costs and Frag…
07:18 Wrap-up

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• The Practical Turn: Tearsheet Awards and Antom Guide Showcase AI's Shift to Measurable Outcomes in Payments — The focus of AI in financial services is shifting from speculative pilots to production-grade tools with measurable…
• Analysis: Yellow Card's Post-Funding Strategy Pivots to Enterprise Stablecoin Services — Following the $40 million funding round we tracked earlier this week, a deeper analysis reveals Yellow Card's strategic…
• AI-Enabled Fraud Accounts for 55% of African Cybercrime, INTERPOL Report Details — Fleshing out the headline figures we tracked yesterday, INTERPOL's full African Cyberthreat Assessment Report details…
• Autonomous AI Agents Could Drive 90% of Fraud by 2028, Incode Report Warns — A new report from identity verification firm Incode, published Wednesday, predicts that autonomous AI agents could be…
• 70% of Finance Teams Faced Fraud Attempts; AI Users Doubled Detection Rate, Study Finds — A new study from AP automation firm Yooz, released Wednesday, found that 70% of finance professionals say their…
• Visa Acquires BioCatch for $2.4B to Embed Behavioral Biometrics in Payment Network — Adding detail to an announcement made earlier this week, Visa's $2.4 billion acquisition of behavioral biometrics firm…
• CBK Caps M-Pesa Payments for Infrastructure Bonds at KSh 250,000 — The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) announced on Wednesday a KSh 250,000 limit for M-Pesa payments when purchasing…
• Safaricom's Pochi la Biashara Cuts Fees, Adds Credit and Insurance for SMEs — As the SME price war with Airtel we've been tracking intensifies, Safaricom's Pochi la Biashara merchant wallet is…
• Mastercard and Borderless.xyz Partner to Build Compliance into Cross-Border Stablecoin Payments — Mastercard is partnering with Borderless.xyz to integrate its Crypto Credential service into stablecoin-based…
• Experts: Weak Currencies and Policy Failures Stall Intra-African Trade, Costing $5B Annually — Despite initiatives like AfCFTA and PAPSS, Africa loses an estimated $5 billion annually by relying on hard currencies…
• CEMAC Central Bank Standardizes Regional QR Code, Joins PAPSS — Building on the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) joining PAPSS earlier this summer, the central bank has now…
• Moment Raises $22M Series A to Expand African Payments Infrastructure — Cape Town-based Moment, a payments infrastructure company, announced on Wednesday it has raised $22 million in a Series…
• Nigeria's CBN Upgrades Licenses for OPay, Moniepoint to National Status — The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has upgraded the licenses of several major fintechs, including OPay, Moniepoint, and…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:02 Analysis: Yellow Card's Post-Funding Strategy Pivots to Enterprise Stablecoin S…
01:37 AI-Enabled Fraud Accounts for 55% of African Cybercrime, INTERPOL Report Details
02:14 Autonomous AI Agents Could Drive 90% of Fraud by 2028, Incode Report Warns
02:48 70% of Finance Teams Faced Fraud Attempts; AI Users Doubled Detection Rate, Stu…
03:18 Visa Acquires BioCatch for $2.4B to Embed Behavioral Biometrics in Payment Netw…
03:52 CBK Caps M-Pesa Payments for Infrastructure Bonds at KSh 250,000
04:52 Mastercard and Borderless.xyz Partner to Build Compliance into Cross-Border Sta…
05:25 Experts: Weak Currencies and Policy Failures Stall Intra-African Trade, Costing…
06:20 Moment Raises $22M Series A to Expand African Payments Infrastructure
07:16 Wrap-up

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• South Africa Unveils Draft Rules to Bring Cross-Border Crypto Under Strict Capital Controls — Following up on the capital control proposals we tracked yesterday, South Africa's National Treasury and Reserve Bank…
• INTERPOL: AI-Enabled Attacks Drive African Cybercrime Losses to $484M, Doubling in a Year — We noted the headline figures from INTERPOL's 2026 African Cyberthreat Assessment Report yesterday; the full release…
• Nigeria Introduces 1.5% Stamp Duty on Crypto Purchases in New Tax Guidelines — Fleshing out the crypto tax guidelines we've been tracking, Nigeria's Revenue Service now mandates that Virtual Asset…
• Microsoft: 1 in 5 Nigerian Internet Users Have Lost Money to Scams, Deepening Trust Crisis — A new report from Microsoft reveals that one in five Nigerian internet users has lost money or personal data to online…
• Visa to Acquire Behavioral Biometrics Firm BioCatch for $2.4B to Fight Upstream Fraud — Following the industry-wide shift toward behavioral analytics we've been tracking, Visa announced on Monday its…
• Mastercard Finalizes $1.8B BVNK Acquisition, Gaining Control of a Major Stablecoin Settlement Rail — Mastercard confirmed on Tuesday it has completed its acquisition of crypto infrastructure provider BVNK, reportedly for…
• Airtel Kenya Launches 'Bizna Wallet' to Challenge Safaricom's Merchant Dominance, Sparking Price War — The SME merchant payment war in Kenya we highlighted yesterday is accelerating.
• Flutterwave Confirms East African Bank Acquisition as Part of Strategic Pivot — Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga Agboola confirmed on Tuesday that the company is in the process of acquiring an unnamed bank…
• Gabonese Fintech CLIKPAY Secures Regional License, Showing Path for Growth Beyond 'Big Four' — CLIKPAY, a Gabonese digital payments company, has become the first fintech to secure a payment institution license from…
• Yellow Card Secures $40M to Expand Stablecoin-Based Payment Infrastructure — Yellow Card, a major African stablecoin infrastructure provider, announced on Tuesday it has raised $40 million in…
• Stanbic Bank Becomes First in Ghana to Offer Direct Yuan Settlement via CIPS — Standard Bank Group's push to build direct yuan clearing rails across the continent has reached West Africa.
• GoLemon's Shutdown Offers Hard Lessons on Unit Economics in African E-commerce — The recent closure of GoLemon, a Lagos-based grocery delivery startup, highlights the persistent profitability…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:01 INTERPOL: AI-Enabled Attacks Drive African Cybercrime Losses to $484M, Doubling…
01:49 Nigeria Introduces 1.5% Stamp Duty on Crypto Purchases in New Tax Guidelines
02:34 Microsoft: 1 in 5 Nigerian Internet Users Have Lost Money to Scams, Deepening T…
03:17 Visa to Acquire Behavioral Biometrics Firm BioCatch for $2.4B to Fight Upstream…
04:00 Mastercard Finalizes $1.8B BVNK Acquisition, Gaining Control of a Major Stablec…
04:39 Airtel Kenya Launches 'Bizna Wallet' to Challenge Safaricom's Merchant Dominanc…
05:18 Flutterwave Confirms East African Bank Acquisition as Part of Strategic Pivot
05:55 Gabonese Fintech CLIKPAY Secures Regional License, Showing Path for Growth Beyo…
06:34 Yellow Card Secures $40M to Expand Stablecoin-Based Payment Infrastructure
07:08 Stanbic Bank Becomes First in Ghana to Offer Direct Yuan Settlement via CIPS
07:43 GoLemon's Shutdown Offers Hard Lessons on Unit Economics in African E-commerce
08:22 Wrap-up

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• South Africa Proposes Ban on Corporate Cross-Border Crypto Transfers — Following recent warnings from SARB Governor Lesetja Kganyago about capital control evasion, South Africa's National…
• INTERPOL Report: AI-Enabled Fraud Drives African Cybercrime Losses to $484M — Adding scale to the recent reports of synthetic identities defeating liveness checks in East Africa, INTERPOL's new…
• Shopify and Stripe Roll Out AI-Powered 'Adaptive Checkouts', Reshaping Conversion Optimization — Following Stripe's mid-July rollout of 'Adaptive Checkout'—which uses real-time signals to reorder payment…
• Nigeria's Revenue Service Formalizes Crypto Taxation With New Guidelines — Nigeria's Revenue Service (NRS) on Monday released its formal 'Guidelines on the Taxation of Virtual Assets,'…
• Kenya's Mobile Money War Heats Up as Airtel Targets Safaricom's Merchant Dominance — The competitive battle in Kenya's SME payment space is widening beyond Safaricom and the PesaLink banks.
• Analysis: Payment Infrastructure Value Moves to Back-End Orchestration, AI, and Stablecoin Rails — An analysis of the first half of 2026 reveals a market shift where value is increasingly captured by back-end payment…
• New Competitor NjiaPay Launches One-Click Payments for South African Merchants — South African payment startup NjiaPay announced on Monday the launch of a one-click payment product for online…
• CBN Defends Licensing of 18 Mobile Money Operators to Deepen Financial Inclusion — The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday defended its strategy of licensing approximately 18 Mobile Money Operators…
• Kenyan High Court Rules CBK Can Be Held Accountable in Mobile Money Fraud Case — A Kenyan High Court on Monday ruled that the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) must take responsibility for addressing…
• Analysis: Transaction Data is the 'AI Superpower' in B2B Payments — According to Boost Payment Solutions CEO Dean M.
• Payaza Secures Exclusive Deal to Power Lebara Nigeria's New Commerce Platform — Nigerian fintech Payaza has secured an exclusive partnership to become the payment and technology provider for Lebara…
• AWS Cuts Prices on OpenAI Models in Bedrock, Expands Multicloud and Identity Tools — Following its recent shift from Bedrock Agents to the new 'AgentCore' framework, AWS announced significant price…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:02 INTERPOL Report: AI-Enabled Fraud Drives African Cybercrime Losses to $484M
01:46 Shopify and Stripe Roll Out AI-Powered 'Adaptive Checkouts', Reshaping Conversi…
02:33 Nigeria's Revenue Service Formalizes Crypto Taxation With New Guidelines
03:17 Kenya's Mobile Money War Heats Up as Airtel Targets Safaricom's Merchant Domina…
03:59 Analysis: Payment Infrastructure Value Moves to Back-End Orchestration, AI, and…
04:40 New Competitor NjiaPay Launches One-Click Payments for South African Merchants
05:17 CBN Defends Licensing of 18 Mobile Money Operators to Deepen Financial Inclusion
05:54 Kenyan High Court Rules CBK Can Be Held Accountable in Mobile Money Fraud Case
06:28 Analysis: Transaction Data is the 'AI Superpower' in B2B Payments
07:04 Payaza Secures Exclusive Deal to Power Lebara Nigeria's New Commerce Platform
07:38 AWS Cuts Prices on OpenAI Models in Bedrock, Expands Multicloud and Identity To…
08:16 Wrap-up

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• Nigeria Overhauls National ID Act, Boosting Digital Identity Framework — President Bola Tinubu signed the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) Act 2026 on Monday, which replaces the…
• Tanzania Mandates Digital Payments Across Key Sectors by July 2026 — Tanzania's government has announced a mandate requiring digital payments across key economic sectors by July 2026.
• Tether Partners with Nairobi Securities Exchange to Explore Digital Asset Infrastructure — Tether announced on Sunday it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE)…
• Standard Bank Authorized to Process Yuan Payments Across 19 African Countries — Standard Bank has received authorization to process Chinese yuan (RMB) payments across 19 African countries, leveraging…
• CBN Flags 13,000+ BVNs for Fraud; Orders N19.12B in Customer Refunds — Nigeria's financial regulators are intensifying their crackdown on fraud and poor service.
• Stanbic Bank Kenya Goes Live with Direct Yuan Settlement via CIPS — Following up on its parent company's broader initiative, Stanbic Bank Kenya announced on Monday that it has begun…
• Kenya Removes Crypto Ownership Cap, Easing Rules for VASPs — As part of the Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP) Regulations 2026 we've been tracking, Kenya's National Treasury…
• South Africa's FSCA Warns of Criminal Networks Infiltrating Licensed Financial Firms — South Africa's Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) warned on Sunday that sophisticated criminal syndicates may be…
• Onafriq Details Layered Approach to Building Pan-African Stablecoin Infrastructure — Following Onafriq's recent integration with Privy for wallet solutions, a new Sunday analysis details the rest of the…
• Spendin Expands to Francophone Africa with Instant Local Payouts and AI Tools — Fintech platform Spendin announced on Monday its expansion into Francophone Africa, launching services in Cameroon…
• Analysis: Riskified's Evolving Role in a New Era of AI-Driven Fraud — A new analysis of Riskified's position in the 2026 fraud prevention market highlights its continued strength with…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:58 Tanzania Mandates Digital Payments Across Key Sectors by July 2026
01:28 Tether Partners with Nairobi Securities Exchange to Explore Digital Asset Infra…
02:00 Standard Bank Authorized to Process Yuan Payments Across 19 African Countries
02:30 CBN Flags 13,000+ BVNs for Fraud; Orders N19.12B in Customer Refunds
03:02 Stanbic Bank Kenya Goes Live with Direct Yuan Settlement via CIPS
04:01 South Africa's FSCA Warns of Criminal Networks Infiltrating Licensed Financial…
04:35 Onafriq Details Layered Approach to Building Pan-African Stablecoin Infrastruct…
05:05 Spendin Expands to Francophone Africa with Instant Local Payouts and AI Tools
06:03 Wrap-up

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• Safaricom Escalates Kenyan Payment War with Sweeping M-PESA Merchant Fee Cuts — Expanding on the M-PESA tariff reductions we noted yesterday, Safaricom confirmed that outbound transfers from M-PESA…
• South Africa's Central Bank to Retain Full Ownership of Payment Utility PayInc, Excluding Non-Banks — South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Governor Lesetja Kganyago announced on Saturday that the central bank will keep full…
• Flutterwave Reportedly Acquiring East African Bank in Strategic Shift to Licensed Institution — According to reports on Saturday, fintech giant Flutterwave is in the process of acquiring an unnamed East African bank.
• Study: AI Explainability Becomes Critical as Fraud Detection Systems Turn Autonomous — As financial institutions rapidly adopt the autonomous AI fraud models we've been tracking, a new analysis emphasizes…
• Bank of Italy Study Dampens Hype on Stablecoin Remittances, Citing 'Last Mile' Fiat Costs — A Bank of Italy study published Friday finds that stablecoin-based remittances are not consistently cheaper or faster…
• Zimbabwe Moves to Regulate Crypto, Signaling Shift to Mainstream Adoption — Zimbabwe is moving to regulate cryptocurrencies, a significant policy shift for a country that has previously been…
• CBN Extends PoS Geo-Fencing Deadline; Agents Protest Exclusivity Rules — Following up on the CBN's market structure overhaul we tracked last month, the Central Bank of Nigeria has pushed the…
• Analysis: The Mechanics of High-Risk Acquiring in an Era of Tightening Network Rules — As networks continue to tighten the chargeback monitoring thresholds we've been tracking, a new analysis details why…
• SADC Payment System Expands Local Currency Settlement, Adding Angolan Kwanza — With the Angolan kwanza now officially live on the SADC Real-Time Gross Settlement (SADC-RTGS) system, the South…
• CBN's July Liquidity Mop-Up Slows to N7.2 Trillion, Signaling Strategy Shift — The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) significantly scaled back its liquidity absorption in July, removing N7.18 trillion…
• Safaricom Introduces 'Lipa na Data,' Allowing Payment with Data Bundles — Safaricom has launched 'Lipa na Data,' a new service that allows eligible customers with specific data plans (minimum…
• Quidax Expands Stablecoin Settlement Network to 21 Countries — Following up on its recent expansion, Quidax has confirmed its stablecoin payment infrastructure is now live in over 21…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:56 South Africa's Central Bank to Retain Full Ownership of Payment Utility PayInc,…
01:34 Flutterwave Reportedly Acquiring East African Bank in Strategic Shift to Licens…
02:16 Study: AI Explainability Becomes Critical as Fraud Detection Systems Turn Auton…
02:56 Bank of Italy Study Dampens Hype on Stablecoin Remittances, Citing 'Last Mile'…
03:37 Zimbabwe Moves to Regulate Crypto, Signaling Shift to Mainstream Adoption
04:13 CBN Extends PoS Geo-Fencing Deadline; Agents Protest Exclusivity Rules
04:49 Analysis: The Mechanics of High-Risk Acquiring in an Era of Tightening Network…
05:24 SADC Payment System Expands Local Currency Settlement, Adding Angolan Kwanza
05:58 CBN's July Liquidity Mop-Up Slows to N7.2 Trillion, Signaling Strategy Shift
06:31 Safaricom Introduces 'Lipa na Data,' Allowing Payment with Data Bundles
07:03 Quidax Expands Stablecoin Settlement Network to 21 Countries
07:34 Wrap-up

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• Safaricom Announces Sweeping M-PESA Fee Cuts for Kenyan Businesses — Following the aggressive PesaLink fee cuts from a coalition of 19 Kenyan banks we tracked last week, Safaricom is…
• Mastercard to Acquire BVNK for $1.5B to Bridge Stablecoin and Fiat Payments for Merchants — Following Visa's recent rollout of an enterprise stablecoin platform, Mastercard is moving to vertically integrate its…
• Mastercard Re-Architects Fraud Systems for 'Agentic Commerce', Targeting B2B Procurement — Alongside the rollout of its consolidated Global Merchant Audit Program (GMAP), Mastercard is fundamentally redesigning…
• SARS Proposes Closing Provisional Tax Loopholes, Expands Bank Reporting Duties — The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is drafting new tax legislation aimed at tightening provisional tax rules and…
• Broken Chargeback System Leaves Australian Merchants Liable, Problem Worsens with AI Payments — Adding to the global surge in 'friendly fraud' we've been tracking—which now accounts for up to 86% of e-commerce…
• Stanbic Bank Kenya Goes Live with China's CIPS for Direct Yuan Settlement — Expanding on the $1.2 billion in CIPS volume Standard Bank Group reported earlier this month, its subsidiary Stanbic…
• Report: A Connected Data Architecture is the Real Differentiator in Fraud Detection, Not Just AI Models — Rohit Chauhan, the former EVP of AI & Fraud Solutions at Mastercard, argues that the effectiveness of AI in fraud…
• Bank of Italy Study: Stablecoin Remittances Not Always Cheaper or Faster Due to On/Off-Ramp Friction — Countering recent industry reports that championed local-currency stablecoins as a frictionless panacea for African…
• CBN Governor Defends Proposed Revenue-Based Levy for Banks Amid Industry Pushback — Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Governor Kamau Thugge is defending a controversial proposal to replace banks' flat annual…
• CBN Director Pushes for National Payment Stack Adoption and PoS Geo-Tagging Compliance Ahead of Deadline — Dr. Rakiya Yusuf, the CBN's Director of Payments System Supervision, has publicly urged financial institutions to…
• SARB Governor Reiterates Cautious Stance on AI and Crypto Risks — Echoing SARB Deputy Governor Fundi Tshazibana's recent warnings about the 'black box' risks of crypto, Governor Lesetja…
• Amazon's Custom Chip Business Surpasses $25 Billion Annual Revenue Run Rate — Amazon's internal custom silicon division, which designs chips like Graviton for general computing and Trainium for AI…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:58 Mastercard to Acquire BVNK for $1.5B to Bridge Stablecoin and Fiat Payments for…
01:43 Mastercard Re-Architects Fraud Systems for 'Agentic Commerce', Targeting B2B Pr…
02:31 SARS Proposes Closing Provisional Tax Loopholes, Expands Bank Reporting Duties
03:10 Broken Chargeback System Leaves Australian Merchants Liable, Problem Worsens wi…
03:45 Stanbic Bank Kenya Goes Live with China's CIPS for Direct Yuan Settlement
04:19 Report: A Connected Data Architecture is the Real Differentiator in Fraud Detec…
04:58 Bank of Italy Study: Stablecoin Remittances Not Always Cheaper or Faster Due to…
05:32 CBN Governor Defends Proposed Revenue-Based Levy for Banks Amid Industry Pushba…
06:07 CBN Director Pushes for National Payment Stack Adoption and PoS Geo-Tagging Com…
06:44 SARB Governor Reiterates Cautious Stance on AI and Crypto Risks
07:20 Amazon's Custom Chip Business Surpasses $25 Billion Annual Revenue Run Rate
08:00 Wrap-up

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• Kenya Bans Interest on Stablecoins, Defines Them as Payment-Only Instruments — Following the formal gazetting of Kenya's new virtual asset regulations that we noted last week, the fine print is…
• New Kenyan Regulations Grant Authorities Power to Seize Digital Assets — Alongside the slashed capital requirements we've been tracking, Kenya's newly gazetted Virtual Asset Service Providers…
• Adyen AI Tool Lifts Merchant Approval Rate by 4.7%, Adds R$24M in Sales — At the E-commerce Brasil Forum 2026 on Thursday, payment processor Adyen presented a case study showing its AI-powered…
• SARB Initiates 'Vision 2030+' for National Payment System, Seeks Public Input — Building on the National Payments System modernization efforts and May's open banking amendments we've been tracking…
• SARS Adds New Compliance Step for Import-Related Forex Payments — The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has clarified a new requirement for importers making advance foreign exchange…
• Mastercard Overhauls Monitoring with 'Global Merchant Audit Program' — Mastercard is consolidating its various fraud and dispute monitoring programs into a single framework called the Global…
• Stripe Radar 3.0 Rolls Out Adaptive Authentication to Reduce False Declines — Making good on the adaptive machine learning rules previewed in its 2026 product review, Stripe has been rolling out…
• PesaLink Integrates with PAPSS for Instant Cross-Border Payments — Following the Central Bank of Kenya's recent endorsement of PAPSS, Kenya's PesaLink—which we recently saw slashing…
• Visa Taps Former Airtel Money MD to Head East Africa Operations — Visa has appointed Anne Kinuthia-Otieno as its new Vice President and Head of East Africa, effective August 4, 2026.
• SARB Considers Scrapping Prime Rate, Renaming Repo Rate — The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is considering a major overhaul of its monetary policy framework, which includes…
• AWS Rebrands Bedrock Agents, Pushing Developers to New 'AgentCore' Framework — In a significant shift for developers building AI agents on its platform, Amazon has rebranded its Bedrock Agents…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:00 New Kenyan Regulations Grant Authorities Power to Seize Digital Assets
01:40 Adyen AI Tool Lifts Merchant Approval Rate by 4.7%, Adds R$24M in Sales
02:29 SARB Initiates 'Vision 2030+' for National Payment System, Seeks Public Input
03:04 SARS Adds New Compliance Step for Import-Related Forex Payments
03:43 Mastercard Overhauls Monitoring with 'Global Merchant Audit Program'
04:21 Stripe Radar 3.0 Rolls Out Adaptive Authentication to Reduce False Declines
04:58 PesaLink Integrates with PAPSS for Instant Cross-Border Payments
05:34 Visa Taps Former Airtel Money MD to Head East Africa Operations
06:10 SARB Considers Scrapping Prime Rate, Renaming Repo Rate
06:40 AWS Rebrands Bedrock Agents, Pushing Developers to New 'AgentCore' Framework
07:14 Wrap-up

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• Onafriq partners with Privy to build regulated stablecoin infrastructure for B2B payments across Africa — Onafriq, Africa's largest payments network, has partnered with US-based stablecoin infrastructure provider Privy to…
• Nigeria's CBN revokes 46 microfinance bank licenses, including fintech-linked entities — The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has revoked the operating licenses of 46 microfinance banks (MFBs), effective July 1…
• Ozow launches direct API with FNB/RMB to replace screen scraping for EFT payments in South Africa — South African payment provider Ozow has launched a new direct payment API in partnership with FNB and RMB, marking a…
• Nigerian fintechs lag banks in meeting 2027 data localization deadline, face complex migration — As the January 2027 data localization deadline we've been tracking approaches, most major Nigerian banks have…
• Kenya's new crypto rules grant Central Bank power to delist foreign stablecoins — Further analysis of the Kenyan Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP) regulations we noted yesterday reveals a strict…
• Report: Trust in Nigeria's N1 quadrillion payment system eroded by operational failures, not just fraud — Despite handling the massive N1.07 quadrillion transaction volume we've tracked, Nigeria's digital payment system faces…
• Infrastructure for recurring payments in South Africa shifts to account-based, open banking models — Innovation in South Africa's recurring payment space is shifting from consumer apps to the underlying infrastructure…
• Angolan Kwanza integration into SADC-RTGS finalized, ending Rand's monopoly — Following up on the initial announcement, five Angolan banks are now actively processing cross-border payments in…
• Quidax expands licensed stablecoin payment rails to 21 countries and 14 currencies — Quidax, the digital asset exchange holding a provisional license from Nigeria's SEC, has expanded its stablecoin…
• Card payments in Kenya fall 12% as consumers shift to mobile money and bank apps — Card-based payments in Kenya dropped by 11.55% to KES 220.04 billion in the first six months of 2026, compared to the…
• Tanzania's Central Bank finalizes regulatory framework for crypto and digital assets — The Bank of Tanzania (BoT) has completed its assessment of the country's virtual asset sector and developed a formal…
• Corpay launches 'Agent Card' to enable AI-driven business payments — Fleetcor's corporate payments division, Corpay, has launched 'Agent Card,' a new feature that allows approved AI agents…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:04 Nigeria's CBN revokes 46 microfinance bank licenses, including fintech-linked e…
01:44 Ozow launches direct API with FNB/RMB to replace screen scraping for EFT paymen…
02:25 Nigerian fintechs lag banks in meeting 2027 data localization deadline, face co…
03:08 Kenya's new crypto rules grant Central Bank power to delist foreign stablecoins
03:49 Report: Trust in Nigeria's N1 quadrillion payment system eroded by operational…
04:29 Infrastructure for recurring payments in South Africa shifts to account-based,…
05:03 Angolan Kwanza integration into SADC-RTGS finalized, ending Rand's monopoly
05:41 Quidax expands licensed stablecoin payment rails to 21 countries and 14 currenc…
06:15 Card payments in Kenya fall 12% as consumers shift to mobile money and bank apps
06:46 Tanzania's Central Bank finalizes regulatory framework for crypto and digital a…
07:16 Corpay launches 'Agent Card' to enable AI-driven business payments
07:47 Wrap-up

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• Identity Firm Prembly Rallies Nigerian Financial Sector to Combat Escalating Fraud — Building on the recent push for unified anti-fraud systems we saw from the Bank of Ghana and across East Africa…
• Visa to Cut 2,600 Tech and Product Jobs, Citing AI Efficiencies and Pivot to Stablecoins — Following Visa's recent launches of enterprise stablecoin platforms and AI-driven 'agentic commerce' tools, the company…
• AI and Stablecoins Drive 'Dual Transformation' of Corporate Treasury in Africa — Echoing yesterday's IMF report on Nigeria's $59 billion in utility-driven crypto inflows, a new analysis frames African…
• Nigerian Fintech Nearpays Wins UN Award for AI-Powered Offline POS System — Nigerian fintech Nearpays won the grand prize at the UN's AI for Good Innovation Factory, becoming the first African…
• Kenyan Banks to Deploy US AI System to Predict Loan Defaults Six Months in Advance — A consortium of Kenyan commercial banks is partnering with US firm IronOne Technologies to implement an AI-powered…
• Nigerian Fintech Forum to Confront Sweeping New CBN Market Structure Rules — The upcoming Nigeria Fintech Forum in Lagos will tackle the immediate operational fallout from the sweeping Central…
• Analysis: The 'Pre-Funding Trap' Is a Silent Tax on African Cross-Border Payments — A new analysis highlights the 'pre-funding trap' as a core operational burden for African cross-border payment…
• Friendly Fraud on the Rise as Visa and Mastercard Tighten Merchant Monitoring Programs — With 'friendly fraud' now driving up to 86% of e-commerce chargebacks as we noted recently, card networks are…
• Nigerian-Licensed Quidax Expands Stablecoin Payment Rails to 21 Countries — Quidax, the first digital asset exchange to receive a provisional license from Nigeria's SEC, has expanded its…
• Leadership Shake-Up at Airtel Money Kenya as Managing Director Resigns — In the second major leadership shake-up in Kenya's mobile money sector this month, Airtel Money Kenya's managing…
• SARB Deputy Governor Outlines Regulatory Challenges of Crypto's 'Black Box' Transactions — Fundi Tshazibana, a Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), highlighted the challenges regulators…
• Zedcrest Group Acquires UK-Based Cross-Border Fintech Leatherback — Nigerian financial services conglomerate Zedcrest Group has acquired Leatherback, a UK-founded but Africa-focused…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:00 Visa to Cut 2,600 Tech and Product Jobs, Citing AI Efficiencies and Pivot to St…
01:40 AI and Stablecoins Drive 'Dual Transformation' of Corporate Treasury in Africa
02:23 Nigerian Fintech Nearpays Wins UN Award for AI-Powered Offline POS System
03:06 Kenyan Banks to Deploy US AI System to Predict Loan Defaults Six Months in Adva…
03:42 Nigerian Fintech Forum to Confront Sweeping New CBN Market Structure Rules
04:23 Analysis: The 'Pre-Funding Trap' Is a Silent Tax on African Cross-Border Paymen…
05:02 Friendly Fraud on the Rise as Visa and Mastercard Tighten Merchant Monitoring P…
05:33 Nigerian-Licensed Quidax Expands Stablecoin Payment Rails to 21 Countries
06:08 Leadership Shake-Up at Airtel Money Kenya as Managing Director Resigns
06:40 SARB Deputy Governor Outlines Regulatory Challenges of Crypto's 'Black Box' Tra…
07:14 Zedcrest Group Acquires UK-Based Cross-Border Fintech Leatherback

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In this episode

• Angola's Kwanza Joins SADC Payment System, Ending Rand's Monopoly and Lowering Cross-Border Friction — As the SARB announced yesterday, the Angolan kwanza officially became the second settlement currency on the Southern…
• Nigeria's Central Bank Mandates Local Data Storage by 2027, Creating New Infrastructure Demands — As the Central Bank of Nigeria's January 2027 payment data localization deadline approaches, the physical…
• Kenya Finalizes VASP Regulations, Slashes Capital Requirements for Crypto Firms — Kenya has formally gazetted its Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP) Regulations 2026, officially enacting the…
• Nigeria's Crypto Market Hits $59B in Inflows; Stablecoins Drive Utility Adoption — Further confirming the shift toward utility-driven stablecoin adoption we've tracked across the continent, a new IMF…
• Regulatory Divergence: Kenya's Low Bar for Stablecoin Issuers vs. Nigeria's High Hurdles — A stark regulatory divergence is cementing between Africa's tech hubs.
• Standard Bank Processes Over $1.2B via China's CIPS, Expanding Yuan Settlement in Africa — Following its authorization as Africa's Renminbi clearing bank, Standard Bank has now processed over CNY 8 billion…
• Nigeria's Official FX Market Turnover Surges 83% to $4.38B, Signaling Improved Liquidity — Building on the improved liquidity trends noted by the CBN earlier this month, Nigeria's official foreign exchange…
• Access Bank Launches AI-Powered App for Nigerian SMEs, Deepening Push into Value-Added Services — Access Bank Plc has launched its 'Access SME App,' an AI-powered platform designed to help small and medium-sized…
• Vodacom's Mobile Money Arm Processed $548 Billion, Signals Fintech-Focused Future — Reflecting the increasing oversight we noted during Safaricom's recent executive shake-ups, Vodacom revealed its…
• WhatsApp-Based Escrow Service Launches in Nigeria to Combat Social Commerce Fraud — Sentinel Escrow has launched SentiBud, a WhatsApp-based escrow assistant in Nigeria, to secure transactions in the…
• Analysis: Africa's Instant Payment Rails Suffer from a 'Participation Problem' — Despite the proliferation of instant payment systems across Africa, a new analysis from TechCabal argues they suffer…
• BinBase Updates 2026 Database with Granular Data for Digital Wallets, Subscriptions, and DCC — On Sunday, BinBase released its 2026 Bank Identification Number (BIN) database updates, which include more granular…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:46 Nigeria's Central Bank Mandates Local Data Storage by 2027, Creating New Infras…
01:17 Kenya Finalizes VASP Regulations, Slashes Capital Requirements for Crypto Firms
01:49 Nigeria's Crypto Market Hits $59B in Inflows; Stablecoins Drive Utility Adoption
02:21 Regulatory Divergence: Kenya's Low Bar for Stablecoin Issuers vs. Nigeria's Hig…
02:55 Standard Bank Processes Over $1.2B via China's CIPS, Expanding Yuan Settlement…
03:51 Access Bank Launches AI-Powered App for Nigerian SMEs, Deepening Push into Valu…
04:42 WhatsApp-Based Escrow Service Launches in Nigeria to Combat Social Commerce Fra…
05:30 BinBase Updates 2026 Database with Granular Data for Digital Wallets, Subscript…

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In this episode

• Duplo Raises $13M to Automate B2B Finance for African Businesses, Expands to South Africa — Nigerian fintech startup Duplo has raised $13 million to expand its AI-powered platform that automates financial…
• OPay Details AI-Powered Security and Infrastructure Strategy in Nigeria — Building on the AI-powered 'Anti-Scam Shield' and behavioral architecture we covered earlier this week, OPay executives…
• South Africa To Overhaul Cash System, Treating It as Public Infrastructure — The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is proposing a major overhaul of the country's physical cash system to reduce a…
• Angola's Kwanza to be Integrated into SADC Payment System — The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) announced that it will integrate Angola's kwanza into the SADC (Southern African…
• Kenya Treasury Lowers Capital Requirements for Crypto Firms — Following up on Kenya's formal gazetting of VASP regulations we tracked recently, the Treasury has bowed to industry…
• Study: Kenyan Online Stores Lose 67% of Customers to Checkout Friction — A new study from Savannah Software Solutions finds that 67% of Kenyan online shoppers abandon their carts before…
• Ethiopia Forms Digital Finance Trade Body Amidst Broad Ban on Virtual Assets — In a complex week for Ethiopian digital finance, the industry launched the Ethiopian Digital Financial Service…
• Case Study: Kogan Lifts Approval Rate Above 98% with Riskified's AI Tools — Australian e-commerce group Kogan boosted its payment approval rate to over 98% and identified AUD $1.5 million in…
• East African Community Reaffirms 2031 Target for Single Currency — Central bank governors from the East African Community (EAC) have reaffirmed their commitment to launching a single…
• CBN Withdraws From Direct Intervention Funding for Nigerian Manufacturers — Nigeria's Central Bank (CBN) has announced it will no longer provide direct intervention funding to the manufacturing…
• PawaPay Hits 3 Billion Mobile Money Transactions, Citing Business-Driven Growth — Fintech firm PawaPay announced it has processed three billion mobile money transactions, with daily volumes doubling to…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:57 OPay Details AI-Powered Security and Infrastructure Strategy in Nigeria
01:36 South Africa To Overhaul Cash System, Treating It as Public Infrastructure
02:14 Angola's Kwanza to be Integrated into SADC Payment System
02:46 Kenya Treasury Lowers Capital Requirements for Crypto Firms
03:20 Study: Kenyan Online Stores Lose 67% of Customers to Checkout Friction
03:53 Ethiopia Forms Digital Finance Trade Body Amidst Broad Ban on Virtual Assets
04:31 Case Study: Kogan Lifts Approval Rate Above 98% with Riskified's AI Tools
05:05 East African Community Reaffirms 2031 Target for Single Currency
05:36 CBN Withdraws From Direct Intervention Funding for Nigerian Manufacturers
06:31 Wrap-up

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• S&P Upgrades South Africa's Credit Rating, Country Exits FATF Grey List — S&P Global has upgraded South Africa's sovereign credit ratings for both foreign and local currency for the first time…
• Mastercard's 'Verifiable Intent' Standard Integrated into XRP Ledger for AI Agent Payments — As the infrastructure for agentic commerce continues to mature beyond the pilots from Visa, Stripe, and Coinbase we've…
• Afreximbank and South Africa's IDC Sign $8B Deal to Boost Intra-African Trade and Industrial Development — Following up on its recent campaign to increase central bank adoption of the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System…
• SARB Signals Hawkish Turn as Inflation Hits 5.0%, Potential Rate Hike Looms — After last week's surprise decision to hold interest rates triggered a sharp depreciation in the rand, a new June…
• Jumia Nigeria Partners with Klump to Offer 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Payments — Jumia Nigeria has partnered with Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) provider Klump to allow customers to pay for purchases in…
• New PCI DSS Rules Target Web Skimming Risk from Third-Party Scripts on Checkout Pages — The latest version of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, PCI DSS v4.0.1, introduces strict new…
• Cloud Provider AFRICLOUD Integrates Mobile Money and Crypto Payments Across 11 African Countries — AFRICLOUD, a cloud hosting provider with data centers in Johannesburg and Lisbon, has integrated mobile money payment…
• Eswatini to Join PAPSS as Part of Deepened Financial Cooperation with Egypt — The Central Banks of Egypt and Eswatini have met to strengthen financial ties, with a key focus on bringing Eswatini…
• Circle's 'Arc' Blockchain Nears Launch with 8 Teams Building Payment Solutions for Africa — Circle's native stablecoin blockchain, Arc, is approaching its mainnet beta launch, with several developer teams…
• Somalia to Integrate National Instant Payment System with PAPSS — Somalia's Central Bank is expanding its national Instant Payment System (SIPS) to integrate commercial banks and mobile…
• Safaricom Attributes MyOneApp Logout Issues to SIM-Based Security Feature — Safaricom has clarified that the repeated logouts some M-PESA users experience on its MyOneApp, particularly when using…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:02 Mastercard's 'Verifiable Intent' Standard Integrated into XRP Ledger for AI Age…
01:39 Afreximbank and South Africa's IDC Sign $8B Deal to Boost Intra-African Trade a…
02:18 SARB Signals Hawkish Turn as Inflation Hits 5.0%, Potential Rate Hike Looms
02:51 Jumia Nigeria Partners with Klump to Offer 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Payments
03:25 New PCI DSS Rules Target Web Skimming Risk from Third-Party Scripts on Checkout…
04:00 Cloud Provider AFRICLOUD Integrates Mobile Money and Crypto Payments Across 11…
04:32 Eswatini to Join PAPSS as Part of Deepened Financial Cooperation with Egypt
05:35 Somalia to Integrate National Instant Payment System with PAPSS
06:05 Safaricom Attributes MyOneApp Logout Issues to SIM-Based Security Feature
06:41 Wrap-up

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• South Africa's Rand Plunges After SARB Unexpectedly Holds Interest Rates at 7% — Following the aggressive hike cycle we've been tracking that pushed the repo rate to 7.0%, the South African Reserve…
• Nigeria's Central Bank Launches 'PSV 2028' to Become Africa's Payment Backbone — The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has formally launched its Payments System Vision 2028 (PSV 2028).
• Kenya Officially Gazettes Virtual Asset Service Provider Regulations — Kenya has gazetted its Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP) Regulations, 2026, establishing a formal legal framework…
• Visa and Lianlian Complete First Live B2B 'Agentic' Transaction with AI — Moving beyond the initial European 'Agentic Ready' pilots we covered recently, Visa and Chinese fintech Lianlian…
• Wema Bank Integrates Duplo to Automate B2B Financial Workflows for Nigerian Businesses — Nigeria's Wema Bank has integrated B2B fintech Duplo's software into its ALAT for Business platform.
• New Institutional-Grade Payment Solution Launches to Tackle African Cross-Border Friction — Lumepay has launched an institutional-grade cross-border payment solution aimed at African businesses struggling with…
• Chargeblast Launches AI-Assisted Service to Recover Disputed Merchant Revenue — Directly addressing the surge in 'friendly fraud' that we noted now accounts for up to 86% of e-commerce chargebacks…
• AWS Consolidates AI Portfolio, Sunsetting Services Including Bedrock Agents Classic — In a significant strategy shift, Amazon Web Services is placing approximately 20 of its AI services and features into…
• New Report Advocates for Local Currency Stablecoins to Boost African Digital Trade — Building on the recent data showing Nigeria and South Africa leading global utility-driven stablecoin adoption, a new…
• Report: Nigerian Digital Fraud Attacks Are Fewer, But More Targeted and Costly — A new report from AI compliance firm Adhere and TechCabal reveals that while the total value of reported digital…
• Safaricom Clarifies M-Pesa Paybill Reversal Process, Places Onus on Merchants — Safaricom has clarified its policy on reversing funds sent to the wrong M-Pesa Paybill number, confirming that the…
• Kora Integrates with IATA to Power Airline Payments Across Africa — Nigerian payment infrastructure firm Kora announced on Friday it has joined the IATA Financial Gateway (IFG), a system…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:59 Nigeria's Central Bank Launches 'PSV 2028' to Become Africa's Payment Backbone
01:36 Kenya Officially Gazettes Virtual Asset Service Provider Regulations
02:13 Visa and Lianlian Complete First Live B2B 'Agentic' Transaction with AI
02:50 Wema Bank Integrates Duplo to Automate B2B Financial Workflows for Nigerian Bus…
03:20 New Institutional-Grade Payment Solution Launches to Tackle African Cross-Borde…
03:54 Chargeblast Launches AI-Assisted Service to Recover Disputed Merchant Revenue
04:53 New Report Advocates for Local Currency Stablecoins to Boost African Digital Tr…
05:25 Report: Nigerian Digital Fraud Attacks Are Fewer, But More Targeted and Costly
06:23 Kora Integrates with IATA to Power Airline Payments Across Africa

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• IMF Warns AI Could Amplify Systemic Financial Risks, Calls for Stronger Central Bank Oversight — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a formal warning on Thursday that the widespread adoption of AI in finance…
• New Data: AI-Driven Security Threats and Merchant Defenses Evolve in Tandem — Merchants are aggressively countering the surge in 'friendly fraud' chargebacks we've been tracking, with a new study…
• SARB Considers Mandating Low-Cost P2P Transfers to Drive PayShap Adoption — Following its decision to prioritize PayShap over a retail CBDC, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is now…
• Nigeria's CBN Targets $1 Billion in Monthly Diaspora Inflows, Focuses on Economic Lending — The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is adding operational teeth to its target of reaching $1 billion in monthly diaspora…
• Coinbase Business Enables All Clients to Accept Payments from AI Agents via x402 Protocol — The infrastructure for 'agentic commerce' continues to institutionalize: Coinbase Business announced Thursday it is…
• Nigeria Mandates E-Invoicing for Medium-Sized Businesses, Expanding Digital Tax System — Nigeria is expanding its national e-invoicing system, with the Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS) now making onboarding…
• Report: East Africa's Fintech Fraud Rate is 66% Above Global Average, Driven by AI — Building on the 2.54% African fraud rate finding from Sumsub we noted recently, the firm's full Q1 2026 report reveals…
• Kenyan MPs Vote to Exempt Mobile Money Transfer Fees from 16% VAT — Closing a legislative push we've tracked over the past month, Kenyan Members of Parliament have officially voted to…
• Ordway Launches AI-Powered Solution to Automate B2B Payment Reconciliation — On Thursday, Ordway announced Ordway Payments, an AI-powered platform designed to eliminate reconciliation challenges…
• Sasfin Bank Officially Shuts Down as SARB Cancels License After Regulatory Breaches — The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has officially canceled Sasfin's banking license, marking the end of a two-year…
• New Bill Grants Central Bank of Kenya Sweeping Powers Over Microfinance Sector — A new Microfinance Bill 2026 in Kenya, detailed on Thursday, grants the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) extensive powers to…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:06 New Data: AI-Driven Security Threats and Merchant Defenses Evolve in Tandem
01:42 SARB Considers Mandating Low-Cost P2P Transfers to Drive PayShap Adoption
02:17 Nigeria's CBN Targets $1 Billion in Monthly Diaspora Inflows, Focuses on Econom…
02:52 Coinbase Business Enables All Clients to Accept Payments from AI Agents via x40…
03:25 Nigeria Mandates E-Invoicing for Medium-Sized Businesses, Expanding Digital Tax…
03:57 Report: East Africa's Fintech Fraud Rate is 66% Above Global Average, Driven by…
04:29 Kenyan MPs Vote to Exempt Mobile Money Transfer Fees from 16% VAT
05:26 Sasfin Bank Officially Shuts Down as SARB Cancels License After Regulatory Brea…
06:20 Wrap-up

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In this episode

• Kenyan Banks Slash PesaLink Fees in Direct Challenge to M-Pesa's Dominance — Nineteen Kenyan banks and microfinance institutions have officially implemented the steep fee cuts to the PesaLink…
• Nigeria Formalizes Crypto Oversight with New Virtual Asset Council — Following up on the executive order signed on July 17, Nigeria is officially establishing its first coordinated…
• Angola's Largest Private Bank to Join China's CIPS Network, Boosting Yuan Settlement in Africa — Angola's Banco de Fomento Angola (BFA) announced on Wednesday it plans to become the first bank in the country to join…
• OPay Details AI-Powered Fraud Defenses for Nigerian Market — At a media event on Wednesday, Nigerian fintech giant OPay detailed its multi-layered, AI-powered security architecture…
• Visa Rolls Out AI Tools to Automate and Preempt Credit Card Charge Disputes — Visa on Thursday announced a new suite of AI-powered tools aimed at streamlining the credit card dispute process, which…
• Report: Nigeria, South Africa Lead Global Adoption of Stablecoins for Utility Use — A new report from BVNK and YouGov reveals that businesses and individuals in Nigeria and South Africa are leading the…
• Ripple Takes Equity Stake in Flutterwave, Will Integrate Stablecoin for Cross-Border Payments — Ripple has acquired an equity stake in African payments giant Flutterwave, valuing the company at $3.3 billion.
• CBN Extends Deadline for PoS Geo-Fencing Compliance to August 1 — The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced on Wednesday it has extended the deadline for financial institutions and…
• Safaricom Masks M-Pesa Sender Phone Numbers to Enhance User Privacy — Safaricom on Wednesday rolled out a new privacy feature for M-Pesa that masks the sender's full phone number in…
• Pepkor to Merge Flash and Shop2Shop, Creating R21.3 Billion Fintech for SA's Informal Market — Pepkor Holdings announced on Wednesday it is merging its fintech subsidiary Flash with competitor Shop2Shop to form a…
• Djibouti Introduces Remittance Tax and Digital Platform to Supervise Outbound Transfers — In a tax law update highlighted Wednesday, Djibouti has introduced a new remittance tax and a digital supervision…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:09 Nigeria Formalizes Crypto Oversight with New Virtual Asset Council
01:52 Angola's Largest Private Bank to Join China's CIPS Network, Boosting Yuan Settl…
02:32 OPay Details AI-Powered Fraud Defenses for Nigerian Market
03:11 Visa Rolls Out AI Tools to Automate and Preempt Credit Card Charge Disputes
03:48 Report: Nigeria, South Africa Lead Global Adoption of Stablecoins for Utility U…
04:24 Ripple Takes Equity Stake in Flutterwave, Will Integrate Stablecoin for Cross-B…
05:03 CBN Extends Deadline for PoS Geo-Fencing Compliance to August 1
05:37 Safaricom Masks M-Pesa Sender Phone Numbers to Enhance User Privacy
06:09 Pepkor to Merge Flash and Shop2Shop, Creating R21.3 Billion Fintech for SA's In…
06:45 Djibouti Introduces Remittance Tax and Digital Platform to Supervise Outbound T…
07:18 Wrap-up

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• CBN Governor Touts $1B+ Daily FX Turnover as Nigeria Holds Interest Rate at 26.5% — Following the convergence of Nigeria's official and parallel foreign exchange rates we noted earlier this week, the…
• African Banks Ramp Up AI Investment, But a Third Fail to Measure ROI Amid Legacy System Drag — A new report from African Banker magazine and Backbase, surveying 277 banking executives across 37 countries, reveals…
• SARS Launches Pilot Program for Advance Pricing Agreements, Offering Certainty on Transfer Pricing — The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has officially launched its Advance Pricing Agreement (APA) programme, with a…
• Institutional Fraud Crisis Plagues Nigerian Fintech as Insiders Exploit Systemic Weaknesses — Nigeria's fintech sector is battling a wave of sophisticated institutional fraud, driven by networks of rogue employees…
• E-commerce Veteran Predicts PayShap Will Revolutionize South African Payments — Building on the South African Reserve Bank's recent decision to prioritize PayShap over a retail digital rand…
• LemFi Partners with BVNK to Rebuild Diaspora Remittance Rails on Stablecoin Settlement — LemFi, a financial platform for diaspora communities, is partnering with crypto infrastructure provider BVNK to shift…
• Nigeria's $40B Blockchain Ambition Stalls as Government Focuses on Crypto Regulation — Three years after Nigeria launched a national blockchain policy aiming to generate $40 billion in economic value, the…
• Busha Business Partners with Tether to Expand Licensed Stablecoin Infrastructure for African Merchants — Detailing the Busha Business and Tether partnership we noted yesterday, the Nigerian crypto platform's B2B arm…
• Report: Building a Fraud-Proof Payment Stack in 2026 Requires Layered AI Solutions — With AI-assisted fraud growing, a Tuesday report outlines a modern, layered fraud prevention architecture for…
• Kenyan Banks Cut PesaLink Fees, Intensifying Competition with M-Pesa — At least 19 Kenyan banks and microfinance institutions are now offering sharply discounted fees on the PesaLink…
• West African Central Bank to Pilot PAPSS with Over 80 Banks — Adding to the momentum from the Central Bank of Kenya's formal endorsement of the Pan-African Payment and Settlement…
• Ethiopia Developing Regulatory Sandbox for Cross-Border Payments — The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) is developing a regulatory sandbox for fintech firms to test cross-border online…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:03 African Banks Ramp Up AI Investment, But a Third Fail to Measure ROI Amid Legac…
01:46 SARS Launches Pilot Program for Advance Pricing Agreements, Offering Certainty…
02:23 Institutional Fraud Crisis Plagues Nigerian Fintech as Insiders Exploit Systemi…
03:05 E-commerce Veteran Predicts PayShap Will Revolutionize South African Payments
03:41 LemFi Partners with BVNK to Rebuild Diaspora Remittance Rails on Stablecoin Set…
04:18 Nigeria's $40B Blockchain Ambition Stalls as Government Focuses on Crypto Regul…
04:55 Busha Business Partners with Tether to Expand Licensed Stablecoin Infrastructur…
05:29 Report: Building a Fraud-Proof Payment Stack in 2026 Requires Layered AI Soluti…
06:05 Kenyan Banks Cut PesaLink Fees, Intensifying Competition with M-Pesa
06:39 West African Central Bank to Pilot PAPSS with Over 80 Banks
07:11 Ethiopia Developing Regulatory Sandbox for Cross-Border Payments
07:44 Wrap-up

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• Nigeria Urged to Overhaul Cybercrime Strategy to Combat AI Threats and Deepfakes — Justice sector leaders in Nigeria are calling for a structural overhaul of the country's cybercrime strategy to counter…
• Digital Fraud and Regulatory Lag Increase Systemic Risk in South Africa — The delayed fintech regulatory roadmap we've been tracking from South Africa's FSCA is now translating into quantified…
• Jumia CEO Calls for Payment Harmonization to Boost African Digital Trade — Speaking at the AfCFTA Digital Trade Forum 2026 on Monday, Jumia Nigeria CEO Temidayo Ojo called for harmonized payment…
• Analyst Details Pillars of Africa's Next-Gen Financial Infrastructure: Connection, Data, and AI — In an analysis published Monday, Winston Osuchukwu, CEO of Mathesis Analytics Inc., argued that Africa's financial…
• South Africa Considers Linking SIM Cards to National ID to Combat Digital Fraud — South Africa is planning a significant overhaul of its SIM card registration system (RICA), aiming to link every SIM to…
• Busha Business Partners With Tether for Stablecoin Settlement in Nigeria and Kenya — Busha Business, the B2B arm of Nigerian crypto exchange Busha, announced a partnership with Tether on Monday to…
• Central Bank of Kenya Backs Pan-African Payment System (PAPSS) to Cut Trade Costs — Following Afreximbank's recent campaign to overcome initial central bank resistance to the Pan-African Payment and…
• South Africa Faces Renewed FATF Greylisting Threat Over R84.6bn Illicit Economy — South Africa is facing a renewed threat of being greylisted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) due to its…
• Safaricom's M-PESA Chief to Depart Amid Executive Shake-up — Esther Waititu will resign as Safaricom's Chief Financial Services Officer on July 31, 2026, marking another…
• Virtual Cards Gain Traction in East Africa as Bridge to Global E-commerce — Virtual cards are increasingly being adopted in East Africa to connect the region's dominant mobile money ecosystems to…
• Nigeria SEC Aims for T+1 Zero-Fail Settlement to Boost Investor Confidence — Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is targeting a near-zero trade fail rate for its T+1 settlement…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:50 Digital Fraud and Regulatory Lag Increase Systemic Risk in South Africa
01:29 Jumia CEO Calls for Payment Harmonization to Boost African Digital Trade
02:05 Analyst Details Pillars of Africa's Next-Gen Financial Infrastructure: Connecti…
02:43 South Africa Considers Linking SIM Cards to National ID to Combat Digital Fraud
03:15 Busha Business Partners With Tether for Stablecoin Settlement in Nigeria and Ke…
03:48 Central Bank of Kenya Backs Pan-African Payment System (PAPSS) to Cut Trade Cos…
04:21 South Africa Faces Renewed FATF Greylisting Threat Over R84.6bn Illicit Economy
04:53 Safaricom's M-PESA Chief to Depart Amid Executive Shake-up
05:27 Virtual Cards Gain Traction in East Africa as Bridge to Global E-commerce
05:58 Nigeria SEC Aims for T+1 Zero-Fail Settlement to Boost Investor Confidence
06:30 Wrap-up

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• South African Banks Join Global Push for AI Agent Payments via Stablecoins — We've been tracking the emergence of agentic commerce standards like the x402 protocol and Stripe's MPP.
• AI-Powered Payment Middleware Using Stablecoins Aims to Automate B2B Cross-Border Trade — Stables, a Singapore-based startup, is developing AI-native payment middleware that uses stablecoins to bypass…
• Stablecoins Target $100T B2B Payments Market as Settlement Rail, S&P Global Finds — A new S&P Global Market Intelligence analysis concludes that stablecoins are emerging as a viable settlement rail for…
• HSBC Joins Asian Working Group to Define Liability Rules for AI-Driven Payments — The unresolved question of liability for AI-initiated transactions—which we noted recently in Visa's agentic commerce…
• Open-Source 'Wallet-as-a-Service for AI' Emerges to Give Agents Autonomous Economic Power — Adding to the wave of 'agentic commerce' tools we've tracked from Visa, Stripe, and Tempo, a new open-source project…
• Nigeria Sets July 31 Deadline for Large Companies to Adopt E-Invoicing — Nigeria's Revenue Service (NRS) has mandated that large taxpayer companies must comply with its national electronic…
• Mastercard Partners With Yellow Card to Deploy Stablecoin Payments in Africa — Mastercard has announced a strategic collaboration with crypto exchange Yellow Card to deploy stablecoin payment…
• South Africa Sees 155% Surge in Digital Wallet Transaction Value — South Africa is experiencing a massive shift in payment preferences, with the total transaction value of digital…
• M-Pesa Enhances Privacy with Masked Phone Numbers in P2P Transfers — Safaricom's M-Pesa has rolled out a new privacy feature that partially masks the sender's phone number and reduces the…
• Nigeria's Official FX Market Strengthens as CBN Reforms Take Hold, Weakening Parallel Market — The Central Bank of Nigeria's aggressive recent interventions—including the deployment of a real-time digital tracker…
• Nigerian Banks May Need to Raise N1.7 Trillion More Under Tougher CBN Holdco Rules — Following up on the CBN's proposed ring-fencing rules and 20% capital buffers for financial holding companies we noted…
• Ghana's SEC Greenlights 11 Crypto Companies for Regulatory Sandbox — Hot on the heels of Ghana's parliament passing the VASP Bill to legalize cryptocurrency services, the country's…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:56 AI-Powered Payment Middleware Using Stablecoins Aims to Automate B2B Cross-Bord…
01:30 Stablecoins Target $100T B2B Payments Market as Settlement Rail, S&P Global Fin…
02:08 HSBC Joins Asian Working Group to Define Liability Rules for AI-Driven Payments
02:44 Open-Source 'Wallet-as-a-Service for AI' Emerges to Give Agents Autonomous Econ…
03:19 Nigeria Sets July 31 Deadline for Large Companies to Adopt E-Invoicing
03:54 Mastercard Partners With Yellow Card to Deploy Stablecoin Payments in Africa
04:24 South Africa Sees 155% Surge in Digital Wallet Transaction Value
04:55 M-Pesa Enhances Privacy with Masked Phone Numbers in P2P Transfers
05:27 Nigeria's Official FX Market Strengthens as CBN Reforms Take Hold, Weakening Pa…
06:22 Ghana's SEC Greenlights 11 Crypto Companies for Regulatory Sandbox
06:55 Wrap-up

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• Spendin’ Expands to Francophone Africa with Instant XAF/XOF Stablecoin & Fiat Payouts — Spendin', a fintech positioning itself as the 'Revolut of Africa,' announced on Sunday it has expanded its instant…
• Stripe-Backed Tempo Launches Open Protocol for AI Agent Payments — Adding to the wave of 'agentic commerce' infrastructure we've been tracking, Stripe-backed blockchain startup Tempo…
• Standard Bank Authorized to Clear Yuan Payments Across 19 African Countries — The People's Bank of China (PBoC) has authorized Standard Bank to operate the Renminbi (RMB) Clearing Bank of Africa…
• AI-Powered Invoicing and Automation Gains Traction Among SMEs — An interview on Saturday with the founder of Pop A.I Automations, Pelumi Ololade Pelumi, highlights the increasing…
• Kenyan SMEs Adopt Custom Software to Bridge M-Pesa and KRA Integration Gaps — Small and medium-sized enterprises in Nairobi are increasingly commissioning custom software to overcome operational…
• 'Friendly Fraud' Accounts for 86% of Chargebacks, New Analysis Shows — A new analysis published Sunday estimates that 'friendly fraud'—where legitimate customers dispute valid charges—now…
• South Africa's SARB Hikes Repo Rate to 7.0% to Curb Inflation — In an unexpected move, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) hiked its repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.0%, reversing…
• Safaricom Clarifies M-Pesa GlobalPay and Paybill Dispute Processes — Safaricom issued clarifications this weekend regarding dispute resolution for its M-Pesa services.
• Zakhaa Pay Launches NFC Wristband for Cashless Payments in South Africa's Informal Sector — South African fintech Zakhaa Pay has launched the Leruo NFC Wristband, a wearable payment device targeting the…
• SARB Flags Risks from Unregulated Stablecoin Trading in South Africa — The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has again voiced concerns over the risks from the country's lack of a…
• Fraudsters Evolve from Simple Proxies to Full Identity Simulation Stacks — The fraud arms race driving the industry's adoption of behavioral analytics continues to escalate.
• Ghana Passes Bill to Legalize and Regulate Cryptocurrency Services — Building on the sweeping Cyber and Information Security Directive introduced last week, Ghana's parliament has…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:58 Stripe-Backed Tempo Launches Open Protocol for AI Agent Payments
01:34 Standard Bank Authorized to Clear Yuan Payments Across 19 African Countries
02:07 AI-Powered Invoicing and Automation Gains Traction Among SMEs
02:37 Kenyan SMEs Adopt Custom Software to Bridge M-Pesa and KRA Integration Gaps
03:08 'Friendly Fraud' Accounts for 86% of Chargebacks, New Analysis Shows
04:08 Safaricom Clarifies M-Pesa GlobalPay and Paybill Dispute Processes
04:40 Zakhaa Pay Launches NFC Wristband for Cashless Payments in South Africa's Infor…
05:10 SARB Flags Risks from Unregulated Stablecoin Trading in South Africa
05:40 Fraudsters Evolve from Simple Proxies to Full Identity Simulation Stacks
06:11 Ghana Passes Bill to Legalize and Regulate Cryptocurrency Services

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In this episode

• Nigeria's CBN Deploys Digital Tracker and Tightens Rules for Retail Forex Market — As part of the broader retail forex framework we tracked earlier this week—which launched the FX BDC Purchase Tracker…
• Nigeria Establishes CBN-Led Council to Harmonize Virtual Asset Regulation — On Friday, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu signed an executive order creating the country's first coordinated regulatory…
• Ghana Rolls Out Sweeping Digital Finance Regulations Covering AI, Crypto, and Cloud Security — Following up on the Bank of Ghana's recent revocation of Zeepay's e-money license and the finalization of digital asset…
• South Africa's Prudential Authority Tightens Scrutiny on AI in Banking — South Africa's Prudential Authority (PA) is increasing its supervision of technology risks in the banking sector, with…
• Survey: 70% of African Finance Professionals See Fraud Risk Rising with Digital Payment Growth — A new survey by ITWeb and ACI Worldwide published Saturday reveals that 70% of African respondents believe fraud risk…
• Visa Unveils Acquirer Monitoring Program (VAMP) Consolidating Fraud and Dispute Tracking — Visa is replacing its various fraud and dispute monitoring programs with a single global framework called the Visa…
• AI-Driven Fraud Pushes Financial Firms Towards Behavioral Analytics and Unified Platforms — In response to the escalating AI-driven fraud arms race we've been tracking—which has increasingly overwhelmed…
• Paystack Deepens Pesalink Integration to Enable Direct Bank Transfers at Checkout in Kenya — Adding crucial detail to Paystack's integration with Pesalink that we noted yesterday: the newly enabled direct…
• SARS Centralizes Tax Residency Status, Clarifying Emigration Rules — South Africa's tax authority, SARS, has streamlined the process for declaring non-residency for tax purposes, becoming…
• AWS Billing Console Glitch Displays Erroneous Multi-Billion Dollar Charges — On Thursday, AWS's Billing and Cost Management Console began displaying wildly inaccurate projected costs for customers…
• Safaricom and Visa Report M-Pesa GlobalPay Virtual Card Hits 316,000 Users — Safaricom and Visa announced Friday that their M-Pesa GlobalPay Virtual Card now has over 316,000 active users.
• Failed Government Bond Auction Signals Weak Demand for South African Debt — South Africa's government failed to sell any inflation-linked bonds at its weekly auction on Friday, receiving no bids…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:52 Nigeria Establishes CBN-Led Council to Harmonize Virtual Asset Regulation
01:27 Ghana Rolls Out Sweeping Digital Finance Regulations Covering AI, Crypto, and C…
02:06 South Africa's Prudential Authority Tightens Scrutiny on AI in Banking
02:43 Survey: 70% of African Finance Professionals See Fraud Risk Rising with Digital…
03:17 Visa Unveils Acquirer Monitoring Program (VAMP) Consolidating Fraud and Dispute…
03:50 AI-Driven Fraud Pushes Financial Firms Towards Behavioral Analytics and Unified…
04:29 Paystack Deepens Pesalink Integration to Enable Direct Bank Transfers at Checko…
05:01 SARS Centralizes Tax Residency Status, Clarifying Emigration Rules
05:31 AWS Billing Console Glitch Displays Erroneous Multi-Billion Dollar Charges
06:30 Failed Government Bond Auction Signals Weak Demand for South African Debt

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• Nigeria's Central Bank Launches Real-Time FX Tracker for BDCs, Mandates 24-Hour Resale of Unused Dollars — As the Central Bank of Nigeria continues its interventions to stabilize tightening Naira liquidity, the regulator on…
• Visa Report: AI Agents Require Dual-Track Payment System of Cards and Stablecoins — Building on its recent agentic commerce pilots and its backing of the Linux Foundation's new x402 protocol, Visa…
• Ghana and Tanzania Finalize New Regulatory Frameworks for Digital Assets — The Bank of Ghana (BoG) and the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) are both finalizing sweeping new regulatory frameworks for…
• Paystack Deepens Pesalink Integration for Direct Bank Payments in Kenya — Paystack on Thursday expanded its partnership with Pesalink, Kenya's instant interbank transfer network, to allow…
• AI-Driven 'Friendly Fraud' and Fake Invoices Emerge as Top Threats — Following the data we recently tracked showing friendly fraud now accounts for the vast majority of chargebacks, new…
• Nigeria's Net FX Reserves Surge to $40 Billion, Diaspora Remittances Targeted at $1B Monthly — Confirming the upward trajectory in external reserves we noted earlier this week, CBN Governor Olayemi Cardoso…
• Ghana Mandates Biometric Verification for National ID, Banning Photocopies — As of Thursday, Ghana's National Identification Authority (NIA) has made biometric verification of the national ID card…
• Visa Launches Enterprise Stablecoin Platform for Banks and Fintechs — Visa on Thursday unveiled a new enterprise platform to help banks, fintechs, and merchants integrate stablecoin…
• AWS CloudFront Outage Disrupts Global Services, Including PayPay — A significant Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage occurred on Thursday, impacting its CloudFront content delivery network.
• Report: Nigerian Consumers Lead AI Adoption in E-commerce — A new DHL eCommerce report released Thursday reveals that Nigerian consumers are outpacing global peers in the adoption…
• Analysis: South Africa's Special Economic Zones Fail Due to Structural Flaws — Despite a World Bank recommendation to expand tax incentives, an analysis published Thursday argues that South Africa's…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:00 Visa Report: AI Agents Require Dual-Track Payment System of Cards and Stablecoi…
01:43 Ghana and Tanzania Finalize New Regulatory Frameworks for Digital Assets
02:22 Paystack Deepens Pesalink Integration for Direct Bank Payments in Kenya
02:58 AI-Driven 'Friendly Fraud' and Fake Invoices Emerge as Top Threats
03:37 Nigeria's Net FX Reserves Surge to $40 Billion, Diaspora Remittances Targeted a…
04:15 Ghana Mandates Biometric Verification for National ID, Banning Photocopies
04:53 Visa Launches Enterprise Stablecoin Platform for Banks and Fintechs
05:31 AWS CloudFront Outage Disrupts Global Services, Including PayPay
06:04 Report: Nigerian Consumers Lead AI Adoption in E-commerce
06:39 Analysis: South Africa's Special Economic Zones Fail Due to Structural Flaws
07:12 Wrap-up

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• Stripe Details Production-Grade AI for Optimizing Authorizations, Fraud, and Cross-Border Pricing — Building on the Adaptive Checkout and Radar 3.0 rollouts we've tracked, Stripe is now detailing its use of AI beyond…
• Stripe and Advent Reportedly Bid $53B for PayPal, Threatening Major Shake-up in Global Payments — Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly made a $53 billion takeover bid for PayPal…
• NVIDIA Details Rise of 'Payment Foundation Models' for Contextual Fraud Detection and Agentic Commerce — Pahal Patangia, head of payments and fintech at NVIDIA, detailed the emergence of 'payment foundation models'—AI models…
• Linux Foundation Launches x402 Standard for AI Agent Payments, Backed by AWS, Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe — Following the live agentic payment pilots from Mastercard and Stripe we covered earlier this week, the infrastructure…
• Fraud Pressure Intensifies in Africa with Cairo and Accra as Global Hotspots, Report Finds — Putting hard numbers to the surge in West African fraud we've been tracking, Accertify's Q2 2026 Global Air Travel…
• SARB to Tighten Forex Rules with New BoP Codes Effective August 11 — The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is implementing updated Balance of Payments (BoP) reporting codes, effective…
• JCB and Circle Partner to Explore USDC Stablecoin Payments for 40 Million Merchants — Japanese credit card giant JCB has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Circle to explore integrating USDC…
• Moniepoint Acquires Sumac Microfinance Bank in Kenya, Appoints Former Branch CEO to Lead Operations — Fresh off upgrading its Nigerian operating license to national status, Moniepoint has confirmed its expansion into…
• Interswitch Profits Driven Almost Entirely by Nigeria, Highlighting Single-Market Risk — Pan-African payments company Interswitch reported a NGN 23 billion (KES 1.98 billion) pre-tax profit for its 2025…
• Airtel Money Quietly Raises M-PESA Transfer Fees to Match Safaricom's Rates — Airtel Money has discreetly increased its fees for cross-network transfers to M-PESA wallets, with the new tariff…
• Dangote Refinery's Shift to USD Pricing Receives Regulatory Backing in Nigeria — Adding a new layer to the severe FX liquidity squeeze we've been tracking, Nigeria's petroleum regulator has confirmed…
• Analysis of Zeepay's License Revocation Highlights Governance Gaps in African Fintech — Following yesterday's abrupt revocation of Zeepay's e-money license by the Bank of Ghana, industry analysis is focusing…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:52 Stripe and Advent Reportedly Bid $53B for PayPal, Threatening Major Shake-up in…
01:32 NVIDIA Details Rise of 'Payment Foundation Models' for Contextual Fraud Detecti…
02:07 Linux Foundation Launches x402 Standard for AI Agent Payments, Backed by AWS, V…
02:40 Fraud Pressure Intensifies in Africa with Cairo and Accra as Global Hotspots, R…
03:17 SARB to Tighten Forex Rules with New BoP Codes Effective August 11
03:49 JCB and Circle Partner to Explore USDC Stablecoin Payments for 40 Million Merch…
04:20 Moniepoint Acquires Sumac Microfinance Bank in Kenya, Appoints Former Branch CE…
04:51 Interswitch Profits Driven Almost Entirely by Nigeria, Highlighting Single-Mark…
05:21 Airtel Money Quietly Raises M-PESA Transfer Fees to Match Safaricom's Rates
06:22 Analysis of Zeepay's License Revocation Highlights Governance Gaps in African F…
06:53 Wrap-up

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• Kenya's High Court Upholds Joint Liability for Safaricom and DTB in SIM Swap Fraud — Following the initial High Court ruling we tracked yesterday, Kenya's High Court has officially dismissed the appeals…
• Bank of Ghana Revokes Zeepay's E-Money License Over Regulatory Breaches — The Bank of Ghana on Tuesday revoked the electronic money issuer license of Zeepay Ghana Ltd, a major cross-border…
• Licensed Stablecoin Settlement Corridors Launch in East Africa to Tackle USD Scarcity — Swiss-based SCRYPT has launched licensed stablecoin settlement infrastructure in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Uganda.
• Nigerian Startup Clea Uses Stablecoins for B2B Payments, Tackling Forex Crisis — Nigerian startup Clea is gaining traction by using stablecoins as a settlement rail to help local importers pay foreign…
• Surge in AI-Driven Fraud in West Africa Prompts Omnichannel Defense Strategy — Organizations across West Africa are adopting omnichannel communication and security strategies to combat a surge in…
• Rwanda's eKash Goes Live with $0.014 Fee Cap, Driving Payment Interoperability — Following the central bank mandate we noted yesterday, Rwanda has officially launched the eKash national instant…
• INETCO Launches Agentic AI Tool to Automate and Accelerate Fraud Investigations — INETCO has launched BullzAI Investigate, an agentic AI module designed for banks and payment providers to drastically…
• Safaricom Launches 'Shiriki Pay' for Shared M-PESA Merchant Payments — Safaricom on Tuesday launched 'Shiriki Pay,' a new M-PESA feature that allows an account holder to authorize other…
• Morocco Unbundles Card Payments, Opening Merchant Acquiring to Fintechs — After a decade-long effort, Morocco's central bank and competition watchdog have finalized the unbundling of the…
• First Abu Dhabi Bank Clears Legal Hurdle for South African Banking License — South Africa's top appeals court has dismissed a nearly decade-long trademark challenge from FirstRand, clearing a…
• CBN Reiterates Data Localization and Beneficial Owner Mandates for Nigeria — The Central Bank of Nigeria is doubling down on the January 2027 payment data localization mandate we've been tracking.
• Package-Forwarding Services Create 'Hidden Pipeline' for Global Brands into Africa — African consumers are increasingly buying from global giants like Amazon and Walmart by using intermediary…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:54 Bank of Ghana Revokes Zeepay's E-Money License Over Regulatory Breaches
01:34 Licensed Stablecoin Settlement Corridors Launch in East Africa to Tackle USD Sc…
02:14 Nigerian Startup Clea Uses Stablecoins for B2B Payments, Tackling Forex Crisis
02:51 Surge in AI-Driven Fraud in West Africa Prompts Omnichannel Defense Strategy
03:30 Rwanda's eKash Goes Live with $0.014 Fee Cap, Driving Payment Interoperability
04:03 INETCO Launches Agentic AI Tool to Automate and Accelerate Fraud Investigations
04:38 Safaricom Launches 'Shiriki Pay' for Shared M-PESA Merchant Payments
05:16 Morocco Unbundles Card Payments, Opening Merchant Acquiring to Fintechs
05:50 First Abu Dhabi Bank Clears Legal Hurdle for South African Banking License
06:24 CBN Reiterates Data Localization and Beneficial Owner Mandates for Nigeria
06:56 Package-Forwarding Services Create 'Hidden Pipeline' for Global Brands into Afr…
07:31 Wrap-up

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• Visa & Mastercard Cut Authorization Hold Window to 25 Days, Risking Pre-Order Sales — Effective July 2026, Visa and Mastercard have significantly shortened the validity period for payment authorizations…
• Luno Challenges South Africa's Proposed Crypto Capital Flow Rules as Potentially Unconstitutional — Following through on the pushback against the draft capital controls we noted last week, cryptocurrency exchange Luno…
• Paystack Launches 'Index' to Enable AI-Driven Payments in Nigeria — The 'agentic commerce' race we've been tracking globally has explicitly arrived in Nigeria.
• Circle Launches 'Nanopayments' Testnet for Gas-Free, Sub-Cent USDC Transfers for AI Agents — Adding to the stablecoin infrastructure for AI agents that we covered yesterday, Circle has launched its Nanopayments…
• US Crypto Firm Hurupay Exits Kenya and Nigeria Amid AML Scrutiny — Following up on the restriction of its Kenyan USD banking services we reported on Sunday, crypto processing firm…
• Rwanda Mandates eKash for National Payments, While Forcing Switch Operator Out of Wallet Business — As Rwanda works to link its RSwitch network to Tanzania's instant payment system, its central bank is enforcing a…
• Naira Weakens Despite CBN Intervention as FX Demand Persists — Despite the Central Bank of Nigeria injecting a reported $250 million over the past two weeks—though some earlier…
• Peach Payments CISO: 'Agentic Commerce' Requires New Security Models for AI-Driven Transactions — As the protocol layer for 'agentic commerce' solidifies, security leaders are beginning to outline the defensive…
• South Africa's FSCA Outlines Slow, Deliberate Fintech Regulatory Roadmap to 2029 — South Africa's Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has released its three-year regulation plan, revealing a slow…
• Tanzania and Rwanda Finalize Technical Framework for Instant Cross-Border Payments — Following up on the Proof of Concept we noted over the weekend, Tanzania and Rwanda have finalized the technical…
• Safaricom & DTB Bank Found Jointly Liable for SIM Swap Fraud in Kenyan High Court Ruling — In a significant ruling on Monday, Kenya's High Court upheld a decision finding both Safaricom and Diamond Trust Bank…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:01 Luno Challenges South Africa's Proposed Crypto Capital Flow Rules as Potentiall…
01:42 Paystack Launches 'Index' to Enable AI-Driven Payments in Nigeria
02:17 Circle Launches 'Nanopayments' Testnet for Gas-Free, Sub-Cent USDC Transfers fo…
02:48 US Crypto Firm Hurupay Exits Kenya and Nigeria Amid AML Scrutiny
03:20 Rwanda Mandates eKash for National Payments, While Forcing Switch Operator Out…
03:53 Naira Weakens Despite CBN Intervention as FX Demand Persists
04:27 Peach Payments CISO: 'Agentic Commerce' Requires New Security Models for AI-Dri…
05:00 South Africa's FSCA Outlines Slow, Deliberate Fintech Regulatory Roadmap to 2029
05:33 Tanzania and Rwanda Finalize Technical Framework for Instant Cross-Border Payme…
06:04 Safaricom & DTB Bank Found Jointly Liable for SIM Swap Fraud in Kenyan High Cou…
06:34 Wrap-up

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In this episode

• Mastercard Launches 'Agent Pay for Machines,' Adds Stablecoin Rails for AI Microtransactions — Following the rollout of 'agentic commerce' tools from Visa, Stripe, and Google that we've been tracking, Mastercard…
• AIsa Raises $6.5M to Build Transaction Network for AI Agent Economy, Integrates Stablecoin Settlement — AIsa, a San Francisco startup building a transaction network for the AI agent economy, announced on Sunday it has…
• Agentic Payments Go Live, Riding Stablecoins as Invisible Rails for Conversational Commerce — Real-world pilots for AI agent-initiated payments are now live, with processors like Stripe, Adyen, and Mastercard…
• UK Places AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle Under Direct Financial Sector Supervision — Formalizing the move we flagged over the weekend, the UK has officially designated the cloud operations of Amazon Web…
• Circle Secures Federal Trust Charter, Legitimizing USDC as Regulated Settlement Infrastructure — Circle received final approval from the U.S.
• Central Bank of Central African States (BEAC) Joins Pan-African Payment System PAPSS — Following up on the initial integration we flagged last week, the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) has officially…
• Standard Bank Authorized to Clear Yuan Payments Across 19 African Countries — Expanding on the South African clearing mandate we noted yesterday, Standard Bank announced on Monday it has been…
• Nigeria's FX Market Turnover Plummets 47% in One Week — Nigeria's official foreign exchange market is experiencing a sharp reversal: after the CBN injected liquidity and…
• Fintech Startup Future Forex Challenges South African Banks on FX Margins — On Monday, South African fintech Future Forex highlighted how it is challenging traditional banks by offering…
• SARB Confirms Development of Crypto Regulatory Frameworks — The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and its Prudential Authority are actively developing regulatory frameworks for…
• Nigerian Fintech Nearpays Wins UN 'AI for Good' Award for Tap-on-Phone Payment Tech — Nigerian fintech startup Nearpays won the United Nations' 'AI for Good Innovation Factory' grand finale, it was…
• High Court Orders Safaricom to Pay KSh 1.4 Billion for IP Infringement on Mobile Wallet Idea — The Kenyan High Court has ordered Safaricom to pay innovator Peter Nthei Muoki KSh 1.4 billion (approx.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:00 AIsa Raises $6.5M to Build Transaction Network for AI Agent Economy, Integrates…
01:40 Agentic Payments Go Live, Riding Stablecoins as Invisible Rails for Conversatio…
02:25 UK Places AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle Under Direct Financial Sector Supe…
03:02 Circle Secures Federal Trust Charter, Legitimizing USDC as Regulated Settlement…
03:42 Central Bank of Central African States (BEAC) Joins Pan-African Payment System…
04:20 Standard Bank Authorized to Clear Yuan Payments Across 19 African Countries
04:54 Nigeria's FX Market Turnover Plummets 47% in One Week
05:27 Fintech Startup Future Forex Challenges South African Banks on FX Margins
06:00 SARB Confirms Development of Crypto Regulatory Frameworks
06:32 Nigerian Fintech Nearpays Wins UN 'AI for Good' Award for Tap-on-Phone Payment…
07:03 High Court Orders Safaricom to Pay KSh 1.4 Billion for IP Infringement on Mobil…
07:36 Wrap-up

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• Stripe's 'Adaptive Checkout' Uses AI to Personalize Payment Options, Boosting Conversions — Stripe has launched Adaptive Checkout, an AI-powered feature that dynamically reorders payment methods for each shopper…
• AI Deepfake Scam Bypasses Fintech KYC Liveness Checks in Nigeria — The AI arms race we've been tracking in African fraud detection has escalated.
• Major Platforms Push 'Agentic Commerce' Protocols for AI-Powered Shopping — Following the early 'agentic commerce' moves from Visa and Stripe we tracked this month, the infrastructure for AI-led…
• VALR and Onafriq Partner to Link Mobile Money to Crypto Across Africa — VALR, Africa's largest crypto exchange, has partnered with Onafriq, the continent's largest digital payments network…
• Kenya's FATF Grey-Listing Triggers Service Restrictions from Fintechs — Kenya's continued presence on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list is leading to tangible consequences for…
• Uganda Detains Over 1,000 in Continent's Largest Cyber Fraud Bust — In what's being described as Uganda's largest-ever transnational cybercrime bust, authorities have detained over 1,000…
• Nigerian Fintech Gigbanc Shuts Down, Citing High Costs and Funding Drought — Nigerian fintech Gigbanc, which provided cross-border payment solutions for freelancers and businesses, is winding down…
• Kenya Finalizes Draft VASP Regulations with 30% Local Reserve Mandate — Kenya's National Treasury has released its draft Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) regulations for public comment.
• SARB Prioritizes PayShap Over Digital Rand for Real-Time Payments — Adding to the recent momentum behind PayShap—including its integration with South Africa's upgraded national QR code…
• Standard Bank's Renminbi Clearing Mandate to Streamline Africa-China Trade — Standard Bank has secured a mandate to clear renminbi (RMB) transactions, positioning it to directly facilitate the…
• AWS and NVIDIA Deepen Partnership to Accelerate AI Workloads — AWS and NVIDIA have expanded their collaboration to enhance AI deployment and performance.
• Kenyan MPs Stand By Proposal to Exempt Mobile Money Fees from 16% VAT — As Kenya's Finance Bill 2026 advances, MPs are maintaining the amendment we've been tracking to exempt mobile money…
• CBN Upgrades OPay, Moniepoint, Others to National Licenses in Nigeria — The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has upgraded the licenses of several major fintechs, including OPay, Moniepoint, Kuda…
• Tanzania Increases Digital Services Tax, Imposes New VAT Rules on Marketplaces — Effective July 1, Tanzania's Finance Act 2026 has increased the income tax rate for non-resident electronic service…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:55 AI Deepfake Scam Bypasses Fintech KYC Liveness Checks in Nigeria
01:35 Major Platforms Push 'Agentic Commerce' Protocols for AI-Powered Shopping
02:18 VALR and Onafriq Partner to Link Mobile Money to Crypto Across Africa
02:54 Kenya's FATF Grey-Listing Triggers Service Restrictions from Fintechs
03:28 Uganda Detains Over 1,000 in Continent's Largest Cyber Fraud Bust
04:02 Nigerian Fintech Gigbanc Shuts Down, Citing High Costs and Funding Drought
04:37 Kenya Finalizes Draft VASP Regulations with 30% Local Reserve Mandate
05:09 SARB Prioritizes PayShap Over Digital Rand for Real-Time Payments
05:39 Standard Bank's Renminbi Clearing Mandate to Streamline Africa-China Trade
06:09 AWS and NVIDIA Deepen Partnership to Accelerate AI Workloads
06:40 Kenyan MPs Stand By Proposal to Exempt Mobile Money Fees from 16% VAT
07:10 CBN Upgrades OPay, Moniepoint, Others to National Licenses in Nigeria
08:09 Wrap-up

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• South Africa's Prudential Authority Pushes to Open National Payments System to Non-Bank Entities — Fundi Tshazibana, CEO of South Africa's Prudential Authority, announced on Saturday that the central bank is actively…
• As Algorithms Shape Financial Inclusion in Nigeria, Accountability Questions Mount — In Nigeria's digital economy, algorithms are increasingly central to financial decisions, from credit scoring to fraud…
• AI-Powered Fraud Projections Worsen as Financial Firms Overhaul Defenses — As the AI-driven fraud arms race we've been tracking intensifies, financial firms are facing stark new projections.
• Moniepoint Details How Real-Time Payments Transformed Nigeria's $11B Food Service Sector — A case study released on Friday by Moniepoint Inc.
• Africa Becomes Global Hotspot for iGaming Fraud, Driven by AI-Assisted Identity Misuse — Building on the recent Sumsub data we highlighted—which pegged Africa's overall fraud rate at a global high of 2.54%—a…
• South Africa's Digital Payments Evolution: From Screen-Scraping to Direct Bank APIs — An analysis on Friday from Wesley Fetter, an OLP Product Manager at Ecentric, frames the evolution of South Africa's…
• Tanzania and Rwanda Link National Payment Systems for Real-Time Cross-Border Transfers — Rwanda and Tanzania are moving forward with a Proof of Concept (PoC) to interconnect their national instant payment…
• Accrue Launches Stablecoin-Powered B2B Banking Platform for African SMEs — Accrue, a fintech company, launched Accrue Business on Friday, a banking platform designed for African SMEs that uses…
• Morocco Caps E-Payment Fees at 0.15% for Small Businesses to Drive Digital Adoption — Morocco's central bank, Bank Al-Maghrib, has implemented a 0.15% cap on electronic payment fees for small retailers and…
• Circle Argues Mobile Money Frameworks Can Serve as Blueprint for Stablecoin Regulation in Africa — In a report highlighted on Friday, USDC-issuer Circle argues that African countries with established mobile money…
• Safaricom May Need Government Approval for Future Expansion Beyond Kenya and Ethiopia — Ahead of the July 31 Safaricom shareholder vote we've been tracking, new details clarify the proposed governance…
• UK Designates AWS as a 'Critical Third Party', Placing it Under Direct Financial Regulation — The UK government has formally designated Amazon Web Services (AWS), along with Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Oracle, as…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:55 As Algorithms Shape Financial Inclusion in Nigeria, Accountability Questions Mo…
01:36 AI-Powered Fraud Projections Worsen as Financial Firms Overhaul Defenses
02:23 Moniepoint Details How Real-Time Payments Transformed Nigeria's $11B Food Servi…
03:02 Africa Becomes Global Hotspot for iGaming Fraud, Driven by AI-Assisted Identity…
03:45 South Africa's Digital Payments Evolution: From Screen-Scraping to Direct Bank…
04:23 Tanzania and Rwanda Link National Payment Systems for Real-Time Cross-Border Tr…
04:59 Accrue Launches Stablecoin-Powered B2B Banking Platform for African SMEs
05:35 Morocco Caps E-Payment Fees at 0.15% for Small Businesses to Drive Digital Adop…
06:08 Circle Argues Mobile Money Frameworks Can Serve as Blueprint for Stablecoin Reg…
06:43 Safaricom May Need Government Approval for Future Expansion Beyond Kenya and Et…
07:20 UK Designates AWS as a 'Critical Third Party', Placing it Under Direct Financia…
07:54 Wrap-up

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• AI-Driven Fraud Surges in South Africa as Regulators Demand Auditable AI Defenses — As the AI-driven fraud arms race we've been tracking escalates, South Africa is emerging as a critical front.
• AI-Powered Fraud Overwhelms Nigeria's Digital Payment Systems, Experts Urge Unified Defense — Echoing the push for unified fraud defense we recently saw in Ghana, experts in Nigeria are warning that the country's…
• Central Africa's Banking Authority (BEAC) Joins PAPSS, Integrating CEMAC Region — Following Afreximbank's recent push for wider adoption, the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) has officially joined…
• South Africa Tightens Rules on Offshore IP Transfers and VAT for E-Services — South Africa is increasing scrutiny on cross-border financial flows.
• South Africa's COFI Bill Pushes to Unify Siloed Anti-Fraud Systems — With an estimated R100bn lost annually to financial crime, South Africa's pending Conduct of Financial Institutions…
• PawaPay Hits 3 Billion Transactions as Mobile Money Shifts to B2B Payments — Mobile money aggregator PawaPay announced on Friday it has processed three billion transactions, with daily volumes…
• AWS Updates Service Terms, Prohibits Crypto Mining — Amazon Web Services updated its Service Terms on Thursday, making several key changes.
• Nigeria's Forex Market Turnover Hits $46.4B in Four Months as Naira Stabilizes — Nigeria's official foreign exchange market recorded a turnover of $46.37 billion between March and June 2026, according…
• Binance Report: Africa Leads in Utility-Driven Crypto Adoption — A Binance report published Thursday states that Africa is becoming a global leader in the practical, utility-driven use…
• Safaricom Governance Vote Looms, Threatening Kenyan Government's Veto Power — Safaricom shareholders are set to vote on July 31 on significant governance reforms following Vodacom's acquisition of…
• Flutterwave and PayPal's Xoom Partner to Speed Up Remittances to Nigeria — Flutterwave has partnered with PayPal's cross-border transfer service, Xoom, to accelerate remittances into Nigeria.
• Zimbabwe Formalizes Crypto Regulation with New VASP Framework — Zimbabwe has officially moved to regulate virtual asset service providers (VASPs) with the publication of Statutory…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:58 AI-Powered Fraud Overwhelms Nigeria's Digital Payment Systems, Experts Urge Uni…
01:43 Central Africa's Banking Authority (BEAC) Joins PAPSS, Integrating CEMAC Region
02:18 South Africa Tightens Rules on Offshore IP Transfers and VAT for E-Services
02:58 South Africa's COFI Bill Pushes to Unify Siloed Anti-Fraud Systems
03:39 PawaPay Hits 3 Billion Transactions as Mobile Money Shifts to B2B Payments
04:14 AWS Updates Service Terms, Prohibits Crypto Mining
04:51 Nigeria's Forex Market Turnover Hits $46.4B in Four Months as Naira Stabilizes
05:24 Binance Report: Africa Leads in Utility-Driven Crypto Adoption
05:59 Safaricom Governance Vote Looms, Threatening Kenyan Government's Veto Power
06:32 Flutterwave and PayPal's Xoom Partner to Speed Up Remittances to Nigeria
07:34 Wrap-up

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• Revolut's 'PRAGMA' AI Model Boosts Fraud Detection by 64.7%, Automates Support — Revolut announced on Thursday that its proprietary AI foundation model, PRAGMA, has improved fraud detection by 64.7%…
• AI-Powered Automation for Card Disputes Goes Mainstream with New Partnership — Card issuer platform Episode Six and AI-powered dispute automation provider Decisionly announced a partnership on…
• Nigeria's Central Bank Tightens Payment Rail Regulations with ISO 20022 Mandate and Real-Time AML — Despite the Nigerian Federal Government's recent suspension of new digital regulations to draft a unified policy, the…
• South Africa Upgrades QR Code Standard for Full Interoperability, Integrates with PayShap — The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has upgraded its QR+ standard to version 1.2, enabling a single, standardized QR…
• New Onchain FX Platform 'HyperFX' Launches for Instant Naira Settlement Using Regulated cNGN Stablecoin — Polytope Labs on Wednesday launched HyperFX, an onchain foreign exchange engine that enables instant currency swaps…
• Fraud in Ghana Shifts to Digital Channels, with PSPs Accounting for 97% of Cases — Putting hard numbers to the Bank of Ghana's recent call for a unified fraud prevention system, a new report discussed…
• Nigerian Crypto Processor Moves to Pay-As-You-Go Model to Boost Merchant Adoption — ForgeLayer, a Nigerian blockchain payment infrastructure provider, has switched from a fixed monthly subscription to a…
• Graph Databases Emerge as a Tool to Detect Organized Fraud Rings — A new system called 'Kavach,' detailed on Wednesday, uses a graph database (Neo4j) to model relationships between…
• Kenyan MPs Scrap Proposed 16% VAT on Mobile Money Transfer Fees — Kenyan Members of Parliament have proposed amendments to the Finance Bill, 2026, to exempt mobile money transfer fees…
• SARB Proposes 'Cash Smart Strategy' to Overhaul South Africa's $5.5B Annual Cash Costs — The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is proposing a major overhaul of the country's cash system through its 'Cash…
• Nigeria Proposes Stricter Ring-Fencing Rules for Financial Groups — Following up on the CBN's proposed 20% capital buffer for Financial HoldCos we tracked earlier this week, a new…
• Cloud Provider AFRICLOUD Enables Mobile Money Payments for Hosting in 11 Countries — AFRICLOUD, a cloud infrastructure provider, announced on Thursday that it now accepts mobile money for cloud hosting…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:19 AI-Powered Automation for Card Disputes Goes Mainstream with New Partnership
02:04 Nigeria's Central Bank Tightens Payment Rail Regulations with ISO 20022 Mandate…
02:48 South Africa Upgrades QR Code Standard for Full Interoperability, Integrates wi…
03:29 New Onchain FX Platform 'HyperFX' Launches for Instant Naira Settlement Using R…
04:11 Fraud in Ghana Shifts to Digital Channels, with PSPs Accounting for 97% of Cases
04:56 Nigerian Crypto Processor Moves to Pay-As-You-Go Model to Boost Merchant Adopti…
05:37 Graph Databases Emerge as a Tool to Detect Organized Fraud Rings
06:17 Kenyan MPs Scrap Proposed 16% VAT on Mobile Money Transfer Fees
06:54 SARB Proposes 'Cash Smart Strategy' to Overhaul South Africa's $5.5B Annual Cas…
07:32 Nigeria Proposes Stricter Ring-Fencing Rules for Financial Groups
08:08 Cloud Provider AFRICLOUD Enables Mobile Money Payments for Hosting in 11 Countr…
08:46 Wrap-up

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• SARB to Increase Regulation of Cross-Border Payment Facilitators in South Africa — The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) announced on Tuesday its intention to increase regulation of cross-border payment…
• Flutterwave Adds USDC Settlement with Strategic Investment from Circle — Hot on the heels of integrating Ripple's RLUSD, Flutterwave has secured a strategic investment from Circle Ventures to…
• PCI DSS v4.0.1 Mandates Stricter Control Over Checkout Scripts to Combat Web Skimming — The new PCI DSS v4.0.1 standard introduces stringent requirements to combat 'Magecart' style web-skimming attacks.
• Guide to High-Converting Cross-Border Payments Emphasizes Local Methods and Nuanced Fraud Rules — An operational guide published Tuesday outlines best practices for optimizing cross-border payment stacks in 2026.
• Kenya Enacts New Central Bank Law, Strengthening Financial Oversight and Crisis Management — On Tuesday, Kenyan President William Ruto signed the Central Bank of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2026 into law.
• Mastercard's 'Merchant Trust Services' to Require Proactive Scam Monitoring — Effective July 24, Mastercard will launch its 'Merchant Trust Services' initiative, shifting its fraud-monitoring focus…
• Direct ZAR-RMB Clearing via Standard Bank to Reduce Costs for SA-China Trade — Following a June 26 announcement, Standard Bank is now authorized by the People's Bank of China to clear Renminbi (RMB)…
• BanffPay Launches Liberia's First Unified Payment API, Secures PSP License — BanffPay announced on Tuesday it has secured a Payment Service Provider (PSP) license from the Central Bank of Liberia…
• GTCO's HabariPay Targets Nigerian SME Market with 200,000 PoS Terminals — In a significant competitive move detailed Tuesday, GTCO's fintech arm, HabariPay, plans to deploy 200,000…
• Equity Group, AfricaNenda, and Gates Foundation Partner to Drive Digital Public Infrastructure — Equity Group, the AfricaNenda Foundation, and the Gates Foundation announced a partnership on Tuesday to accelerate the…
• Nigerian Government Suspends New Digital Regulations to Develop Unified Policy — Following the barrage of Nigerian directives we've been tracking—from the CBN's looming data localization mandate to…
• ECB Mandates Banks Submit Plans to Counter AI-Driven Cyberattacks by October 31 — The European Central Bank (ECB) has directed all supervised banks to submit formal plans by October 31 detailing how…

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• UK Regulator's 'Mills Review' Frames Future of AI in Finance, Identifies Programmable Money as Key Infrastructure — The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on Monday released 'The Mills Review,' a landmark report concluding that AI…
• Visa and Stripe Launch Tools for AI-Driven 'Agentic Commerce' — Building on the autonomous payment protocols we tracked Stripe testing with Cross River Bank, major networks are moving…
• South Africa Proposes Sweeping Capital Controls for Cryptocurrency — South Africa's National Treasury released a draft bill to integrate cryptocurrencies into its capital flow management…
• Ripple Takes Equity Stake in Flutterwave to Drive Stablecoin Payments in Africa — Ripple has acquired an equity stake in African fintech giant Flutterwave to integrate its RLUSD stablecoin and Ripple…
• Kenya's Finance Act 2026 Expands 'Royalty' Definition to Tax Software and Card Network Fees — Adding to the recent digital payment tax pressures we've been tracking in Kenya, the Finance Act 2026 has broadened the…
• Nigerian Data Localization Mandate Spurs Local Infrastructure Offerings — Infrastructure providers are racing to capture the market created by the CBN's January 2027 payment data localization…
• Nigeria SEC Expands Crypto Sandbox, Prioritizes Asset Tokenization and Custody — Following up on the SEC's recent ARIP sandbox admissions—now cited as nine firms, including Luno, rather than the…
• Ghanaian Fintech Zeepay Faces Legal and Regulatory Crises — Ghanaian remittance and mobile money firm Zeepay is facing significant legal and regulatory challenges.
• BNPL Providers Defend Model Against SARB Scrutiny in South Africa — South African 'Buy Now, Pay Later' (BNPL) providers including Payflex and PayJustNow are actively defending their…
• Uganda Moves Forward with $5.5B Tokenized CBDC Project in Special Economic Zone — Miami-based Global Settlement Network (GSN) has acquired Uganda's AKIBA International to launch a $5.5 billion project…
• Bank of Ghana Calls for Unified, Industry-Wide Fraud Prevention System — The Bank of Ghana's Head of Fintech and Innovation, Elhanan Owureku Asare, is advocating for a unified fraud prevention…
• Ethiopia and Kenya Formalize Small-Scale Cross-Border Trade — Ethiopia's Customs Commission has introduced a directive to formalize small-scale cross-border trade with Kenya.

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• South Africa's SARS Proposes Sweeping Crypto Tax Rules, Forms Audit Unit — On Wednesday, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) published comprehensive draft guidance for the taxation of…
• Nigerian Central Bank Proposes Stricter HoldCo Rules, Impacting Fintech Subsidiaries — On Sunday, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) released exposure drafts for revised guidelines on Financial Holding…
• Nigeria's NIMC Act Transforms Digital ID into Economic Infrastructure — President Tinubu on Sunday signed the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) Act 2026, a landmark law that…
• Afreximbank President Pushes for PAPSS Expansion, Reveals 'PAPSS Card' — Afreximbank is escalating the push for its Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) we've been tracking, with…
• Data Breach at Nigeria's Providus Bank Leads to Wave of Unauthorized Card Fraud — Customers of Nigeria's Providus Bank are reporting a surge in unauthorized card transactions, which appear to be linked…
• Apple Pay Expands Merchant Tokens for Stored Credential Billing — Apple has quietly expanded its Apple Pay Merchant Token specification, enabling ecommerce merchants to store tokenized…
• MoonPay Acquires AI Accounting Firm Entendre to Automate Stablecoin Finances — Crypto payments firm MoonPay has acquired Entendre, a maker of AI-powered accounting tools, to automate the financial…
• Kenya Proposes Strict 30% Local Reserve Requirement for Stablecoin Issuers — The clash we noted over Kenya's proposed stablecoin reserve rules is coming into sharper focus.
• Shopify Rolls Out Native B2B Checkout for Plus Merchants — On June 24, Shopify made its B2B Native Checkout available to all Shopify Plus merchants, integrating wholesale…
• Ecobank Nigeria Adds New Fees for Foreign Currency Transfers — Effective July 1, Ecobank Nigeria has implemented new charges for foreign currency transfers within the bank.
• SARB Considers Scrapping Prime Rate, Renaming Repo Rate — The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is considering a major overhaul of its interest rate framework, which could…
• AWS Undergoes Strategic Workforce Shifts to Focus on AI Growth — Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making strategic workforce adjustments, including some layoffs, as it doubles down on…

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• Stripe Builds Payment Infrastructure for AI Agents to Autonomously Spend Real Money — In a collaboration announced Thursday, Cross River Bank and Stripe are providing bank-grade card issuance…
• Stripe's 2026 Product Suite Review: Deeper AI in Fraud, Link Network Growth, and Persistent Cross-Border Challenges — A Saturday review of Stripe's 2026 product suite highlights significant advancements in AI, particularly with Stripe…
• Chargeback Software Market Hits $2.6B as AI Agents Create New Liability Concerns — Building on the escalating chargeback volumes and friendly fraud trends we've been tracking, the market for chargeback…
• Fitch Upgrades South Africa's Credit Rating for First Time in 21 Years — On Sunday, Fitch Ratings upgraded South Africa's long-term credit rating, the first such move in 21 years.
• Micro-Transaction Probing Emerges as Precursor to High-Value Fraud — Cybercriminals are increasingly using 'micro-transaction reconnaissance'—making tiny, often sub-dollar payments—to test…
• Nigeria Unveils 'Payment System Vision 2028' to Become Africa's Payment Hub — Following its strict 2027 data localization mandate, Nigeria's Central Bank (CBN) has launched its 'Payment System…
• Surge in Sophisticated ATM Attacks Targets African Banks' Authorization Infrastructure — Nigeria’s Computer Emergency Response Team (ngCERT) issued a high-risk advisory on Saturday concerning a surge in…
• Google Deepens Africa Investment with AI Lab and Digital Exchange Port — At its Google Cloud Africa Summit 2026 on Sunday, Google announced an expanded strategy for the continent, building on…
• South African Rand Strengthens as Citi Forecasts Favorable Policy Response — The South African Rand has strengthened in recent weeks, with the USD/ZAR exchange rate nearing 16.23.
• Digital Wallets See 'Explosive' 155% Growth in South Africa — South Africa is witnessing a surge in digital wallet usage, with transaction value growing nearly 155% between early…
• Nigerian Fintechs Embrace Banking Licenses, Shifting from Payments to Balance Sheet Models — Major Nigerian payment companies like Moniepoint, Paystack, and Flutterwave are increasingly acquiring banking…
• Ethiopia's EthSwitch Deploys AI for Credit Scoring and a New Merchant Portal — EthSwitch, Ethiopia's national payment switch, is launching a merchant portal and an AI-driven credit scoring system to…

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• Nigeria Mandates Data Localization by January 2027 — Following the Central Bank of Nigeria's mandate requiring all payment data to be stored domestically by January 1…
• Nigeria SEC Expands Crypto Sandbox, Admitting Luno and Six Others — Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has granted Approval-in-Principle to seven new fintech and digital…
• AI Powers a New Generation of Sophisticated Fraud — Fraudsters are increasingly leveraging AI to execute sophisticated scams, including deepfake voice instructions and…
• Launch Africa Ventures Exits Peach Payments in Secondary Sale to 27four — Pan-African VC firm Launch Africa Ventures has sold its stake in South African payment processor Peach Payments to the…
• Afreximbank Intensifies Push for PAPSS Adoption — Afreximbank and the AfCFTA Secretariat are increasing their advocacy for the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System…
• South Africa's FSCA Publishes Three-Year Regulation Plan — South Africa's Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) released its three-year regulation plan for 2026-2029 on…
• SARB Prioritizes Payment Rails Modernization Over Retail CBDC — The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is officially prioritizing the modernization of its existing digital payments…
• Report: Merchants Massively Underestimate Friendly Fraud's Share of Chargebacks — Digging deeper into the 2026 Chargeback Field Report from Chargebacks911 we recently covered, the data reveals a severe…
• China Expands Yuan Clearing to 19 African Countries via Standard Bank — China has approved South Africa's Standard Bank and its parent ICBC to clear Renminbi (Yuan) transactions across 19…
• M-PESA Masks Phone Numbers in Transactions to Enhance Privacy — Safaricom's M-PESA is rolling out a new privacy feature that masks users' full phone numbers in 'Send Money'…
• East African Community Approves Framework for Cross-Border Data Flows — Experts from East African Community (EAC) partner states have approved a harmonized framework for trusted cross-border…
• Core Banking Modernization Drives Shift to Cloud and APIs — Financial institutions globally are accelerating core banking modernization, moving from legacy batch-processing…

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• Nigeria's Banking Crackdown Catches Fintechs Using Microfinance Licenses for Growth — The Central Bank of Nigeria revoked 46 microfinance bank (MFB) licences on Wednesday, impacting several fintechs…
• SARS' New Mandatory Online Traveller Declaration System Faces Launch-Day Glitches — Effective Wednesday, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) made it mandatory for all travellers to complete an…
• Kenya Imposes 16% VAT on Digital Payment Processing Fees — Effective Wednesday, Kenya's Finance Act 2026 has imposed a 16% VAT on digital payment processing fees for over 40…
• Visa, M-Pesa, and Onafriq Pilot Stablecoin Settlements in DRC — Visa, M-Pesa, and pan-African payments company Onafriq have launched a pilot in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)…
• Visa Rolls Out AI Tools to Automate Credit Card Dispute Resolution — Visa has introduced six new AI-powered tools aimed at making the credit card charge dispute process more efficient and…
• CBN Mandates Data Localization and Stricter Governance in H1 2026 Directives — A review of the Central Bank of Nigeria's directives in the first half of 2026 reveals a major push for tighter control…
• Kenyan Treasury and Crypto Firms Clash Over Stablecoin Reserve Rules — Virtual asset providers in Kenya are challenging a proposed National Treasury regulation that would require 30% of…
• Vodacom Finalizes Acquisition, Takes Majority Control of Safaricom — Vodacom Group has completed its acquisition of an additional 20% effective stake in Safaricom, raising its total…
• Report: Friendly Fraud Drives Up Merchant Costs and Consumer Prices — According to the 2026 Chargeback Field Report from Chargebacks911, 83% of enterprise merchants have seen a rise in…
• Nairobi-Based Daya Raises $2.4M Pre-Seed for Stablecoin Payment Infrastructure — Nairobi-based startup Daya has raised a $2.4 million pre-seed round led by Hivemind Capital to build infrastructure for…
• South Africa's Constitutional Court Allows Forex-Rigging Case Against Six Global Banks to Proceed — South Africa's Constitutional Court ruled this week that the Competition Commission can move forward with its…
• AfCFTA Digital Trade Protocol Pushed for Faster Ratification — Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General of the AfCFTA Secretariat, is calling for accelerated ratification of the AfCFTA…

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