Africa Banking Sector FY2025 Earnings Round-Up: Who Won, Who Struggled, and What the Numbers Reveal
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Africa 2025 full-year bank results reveal a continental divide: record profits in East and Southern Africa, profit compression in Nigeria.
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Africa’s Series A Drought Is Real. Local VCs Are Filling the Gap.
Foreign VC retreat from African Series A rounds has created a funding gap — and local capital managers are moving to fill it.
Sistema.bio FarmCarbon $53M: The Carbon Credit Structure Turning Livestock Waste Into Clean Energy Finance
Sistema.bio and FarmCarbon close a $53M fund turning smallholder livestock waste into biogas energy and carbon credits. The architecture: carbon credit as subsidy mechanism, not headline product.
Two Telecoms, One Continent: What Airtel Africa and MTN’s FY2025 Results Reveal About Africa’s Biggest Strategic Bet
Airtel Africa and MTN have both reported FY2025 results. Both recovered sharply from currency-driven losses. But their strategies — asset-light vs infrastructure build, fintech IPO vs acquisition war chest — could not be more different.
South Africa’s R688M Google Settlement: Africa’s First Enforceable Big Tech Payment to Media Publishers
South Africa’s Competition Commission secured R688M from Google under the MDPMI inquiry — Africa’s first enforceable Big Tech payment to news publishers. Here is what the settlement actually means, stream by stream.
MTN Group FY2025: Nigeria Is Now the Engine
MTN Nigeria generated EBITDA of $1.926B in FY2025 — 84% above South Africa’s $1.048B. Nigeria has overtaken South Africa as MTN Group’s top profit contributor for the first time in the group’s 30-year history.
Kenya Has One of Africa’s Cleanest Grids — and One of Its Most Expensive Electricity Bills
Kenya generates 92% of its electricity from renewables — and charges businesses more per kWh than most European countries. How clean became expensive.
MTN’s 30 Million Connected Homes Play: The Fixed Wireless Bet That Could Reshape African Broadband
MTN is targeting 30 million connected homes across Africa through fixed wireless access — a bet that could redefine who controls African home broadband.
Wise Is Now in Nigeria. Here Is What That Actually Means for the $24 Billion Corridor
Wise has received its IMTO licence from the CBN. What it means for pricing on the UK-Nigeria corridor, who it threatens, and what it cannot do.
MTN’s FY2025 Results Validate the War Chest Thesis — Now Comes the Harder Part
MTN Group’s FY2025 numbers confirm the capital is intact and cash generation has accelerated. The harder question: when does the $2B acquisition war chest actually get deployed?
