Paystack Acquires Ladder MFB + CBN N250M Fine — Building for Regulation Before Being Caught By It
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Paystack’s N250M CBN fine for Zap and the Ladder MFB acquisition tell the same story: Nigeria’s fintech grey zone is closing fast.
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Africa EV Infrastructure Gap: $5B Market, 200 Public Chargers — The Crisis No One Is Solving
Africa’s EV market is growing at 32% annually. Its public charging infrastructure is not. The gap is a business model problem, not an adoption problem.
Southern Africa Hydropower Crisis: When Climate Change Kills the Continent’s Baseload
Zambia and Zimbabwe are experiencing one of the worst electricity crises in a generation as El Niño droughts drain Kariba Dam to critically low levels. Climate change is undermining the very clean energy the continent already has.
America’s Africa Energy Pivot: Clean Cooking and Critical Minerals Instead of Climate Finance
The Trump administration has not abandoned Africa’s energy sector — it has rebranded it. USAID grants are out. EXIM Bank commercial credit is in. What this means for governments that built energy plans around US concessional finance.
How M-Pesa Captured at Least 40% of Kenya’s Stock Exchange in Weeks
Safaricom launched Ziidi Trader, connecting M-Pesa directly to the Nairobi Securities Exchange. Within weeks, M-Pesa payments captured at least 40% of NSE transaction volume — a structural shift in Kenya’s capital markets.
