If you’re making online payments to or from Nigeria, the chances are that a local startup, Paystack is helping you spend your money. When Olubi and Akinlade first approached the idea for Paystack, ...
Over the last year, the Covid-19 pandemic has fueled a shift towards digital banking and mobile money. In Africa, this change in habits has international investors eyeing the lucrative opportunity to ...
American financial services company Stripe recently acquired a Nigerian start-up Paystack for a reported $200 million. Paystack was co-founded by Shola Akinlade in 2016 as a solution for merchants in ...
This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Like Stripe, Paystack provides APIs that let merchants, with ...
Africa has been one of the least-developed regions globally when it comes to technology and being on the less advanced side of the so-called digital divide. But with a huge population and a set of ...
Paystack, one of Nigeria's most hotly anticipated tech start-ups, has just secured $1.3M Seed investment from both international and homegrown investors. The investors include Tencent, Comcast ...
When Stripe announced earlier this year that it had picked up another $600 million in funding, it said one big reason for the funding was to expand its API-based payments services into more ...
On February 13, hundreds of people gathered at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial center. The crowd was there to see a new club, Sporting Lagos FC, play its first-ever football ...