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MTN IHS Towers capital allocation war chest MoMo fintech strategy 2026

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MTN Spent Its War Chest on Towers. Now What?

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March 28, 2026

MTN’s 2.2 billion dollar IHS Towers acquisition consumes 60 percent of its fintech war chest. BETAR analyses the balance sheet impact, dividend risk, and what it means for MoMo’s product ambitions in 2026-2027.

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Africa banking sector FY2025 earnings roundup — Equity Group, KCB, Standard Bank, FirstRand

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Africa Banking Sector FY2025 Earnings Round-Up: Who Won, Who Struggled, and What the Numbers Reveal

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March 23, 2026

BETAR’s cross-continental FY2025 banking earnings analysis: Equity Group +55%, Standard Bank record R49.2bn, KCB 99% digital, and Nigeria’s normalisation squeeze. The full picture from the season that split African banking in two.

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One Licence, Two Markets: What the Kenya-Rwanda Payment Passporting Deal Means for East African Fintech

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March 22, 2026

Kenya and Rwanda have signed a landmark MOU to build a mutual recognition framework for payment service providers — the first bilateral step in the EAC’s five-year cross-border payments integration blueprint.

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CBN Biometric Mandate: Nigerian Fintechs Must Rebuild Account Opening by July 1 — BETAR.africa

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CBN Biometric Mandate: Nigerian Fintechs Must Rebuild Account Opening by July 1

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March 22, 2026

The CBN requires liveness checks for all new account openings from July 1. Nigerian fintechs must rebuild their onboarding stack.

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Ghana's VASP Sandbox: 11 Firms Approved, Crypto Regulation Framework Takes Shape — BETAR.africa

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Ghana’s VASP Sandbox: 11 Firms Approved, Crypto Regulation Framework Takes Shape

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March 22, 2026

Ghana’s Bank of Ghana has approved 11 firms into its crypto regulatory sandbox. What the framework looks like and what comes next.

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Africa Banking FY2025 Earnings roundup — BETAR.africa

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Africa Banking Sector FY2025 Earnings Round-Up: Who Won, Who Struggled, and What the Numbers Reveal

UphivaBETAR
March 22, 2026

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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CBN's BVN Phone Lock: Nigeria Tightens the Fraud Screws on Fintech — BETAR.africa

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CBN’s BVN Phone Lock: Nigeria Tightens the Fraud Screws on Fintech

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March 22, 2026

The CBN now ties Bank Verification Numbers to a single registered phone number. The fraud control logic — and the compliance implications.

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CBN's Double Mandate: Nigeria Fintechs Face Compounded AI Compliance Deadlines — BETAR.africa

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CBN’s Double Mandate: Nigeria Fintechs Face Compounded AI Compliance Deadlines

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March 22, 2026

Nigerian fintechs face simultaneous biometric and AI-AML compliance deadlines — and the rebuild is more expensive than either mandate alone.

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Nigeria's VARA Framework: Africa's Largest Crypto Market Rewrites the Rules Without a New Law — BETAR.africa

Policy & Regulation

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Nigeria’s VARA Framework: Africa’s Largest Crypto Market Rewrites the Rules Without a New Law

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March 22, 2026

Nigeria has created a binding crypto regulatory framework through administrative action — no new legislation required.

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Nigeria's CBN Makes AI Mandatory in Anti-Money Laundering Compliance — BETAR.africa

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Nigeria’s CBN Makes AI Mandatory in Anti-Money Laundering Compliance

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March 22, 2026

The Central Bank of Nigeria has embedded AI into its AML compliance framework — the first time machine learning is mandatory under Nigerian banking law.

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MTN Spent Its War Chest on Towers. Now What?

Africa Banking Sector FY2025 Earnings Round-Up: Who Won, Who Struggled, and What the Numbers Reveal

One Licence, Two Markets: What the Kenya-Rwanda Payment Passporting Deal Means for East African Fintech

CBN Biometric Mandate: Nigerian Fintechs Must Rebuild Account Opening by July 1

Ghana’s VASP Sandbox: 11 Firms Approved, Crypto Regulation Framework Takes Shape

Africa Banking Sector FY2025 Earnings Round-Up: Who Won, Who Struggled, and What the Numbers Reveal

CBN’s BVN Phone Lock: Nigeria Tightens the Fraud Screws on Fintech

CBN’s Double Mandate: Nigeria Fintechs Face Compounded AI Compliance Deadlines

Nigeria’s VARA Framework: Africa’s Largest Crypto Market Rewrites the Rules Without a New Law

Nigeria’s CBN Makes AI Mandatory in Anti-Money Laundering Compliance

MTN War Chest Q2 2026: 90 Days In, the Acquisition Pipeline Has Changed

Nigeria Bank M&A Wave 2026: Who Acquires the Recapitalisation Failures and at What Price?

Nigeria Bank M&A Wave: Who Acquires the Recapitalisation Failures — and at What Price?

COMESA Clears Vodacom’s Safaricom Stake: What 55% Ownership Means for East Africa’s Telecoms Map

Airtel-Starlink Direct-to-Cell in Kenya: The End of the Coverage Excuse

Nigeria BRIDGE Fibre Rollout: How the World Bank’s Pay-for-Results Architecture Is Funding Africa’s Biggest Broadband Project

Nigeria BRIDGE Fibre Rollout: How the World Bank’s Pay-for-Results Architecture Is Funding Africa’s Biggest Broadband Project

GITEX Africa 2026 Day 2: STAR Summit — AI, Cybersecurity and Fintech Take Centre Stage

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MTN War Chest Q2 2026: 90 Days In, the Acquisition Pipeline Has Changed

Nigeria Bank M&A Wave 2026: Who Acquires the Recapitalisation Failures and at What Price?

Nigeria Bank M&A Wave: Who Acquires the Recapitalisation Failures — and at What Price?

COMESA Clears Vodacom’s Safaricom Stake: What 55% Ownership Means for East Africa’s Telecoms Map