By Our Reporter In African culture, whenever a young man is going to marry his bride, it is taken as a collective responsibility of the community to make contributions toward the success of the celebrations. This is always done through wedding meetings where people converge and manually collect money, while others make pledges and fulfill […]
By Our Reporter When a peacock is lying down, one can hardly appreciate its beauty. But when it stands and its wings are fully spread, it reveals one of the most beautiful color patterns. The same applies to digital data. Because data is unstructured and is everywhere, very few people get to appreciate its significance. […]
By Our Reporter One of the biggest challenges faced by start-up businesses is poor record keeping, which results in the inability to make proper business analyses. The other key challenge is managing payments and money in general. It is these problems that prompted Emmanuel Kimaro, to start Bizzyn, a business management tool that enables users […]
By Our reporter Nomanini is a South Africa-founded payments platform that connects financial service providers and fast-moving consumer goods companies to consumers. Founded in 2011, Nomanini, which means ‘anytime’ in the ‘Siswati’ language, started out as a point-of-sale gadget distributor to retailers where they could be able to sell airtime to customers. It has since […]
By Our Reporter East Africa has one of the fastest-growing populations, predominated by women and youth. The same region has a ballooning informal sector economy including Boda Boda riders, market vendors, and salon operators among others. Unfortunately, the majority of these have little, somewhat no clue about financial discipline, especially the art of saving. It […]
By Our Reporter It is now 22 years since one of East Africa’s oldest financial technology companies, Craft Silicon launched operations. What started as a back-end financial solutions company has since transitioned into a huge banking and financial inclusion enabler providing a wide range of solutions, from core banking, microfinance, anti-money laundering, and electronic payments […]
By Our Reporters At the start of July 2016, news broke that two Tech giants had come together and devised an African Transport solution. The Tech Giants were Craft Silicon and Safaricom. The Transport solution was Little Cab; a ride-hailing APP that was launched in Kenya to directly compete with the likes of Uber, and […]
By Our Reporter In 2001, two young African men from opposite ends of the continent sat across each other at a dinner table and had a discussion over a cup of coffee. So intense was the conversation that problem-solving models were created on a serviette that would fuel the establishment and growth of a multinational […]
By Our reporter FinTech Uganda Limited, a subsidiary of FinTech Group is one of the oldest financial technology companies in Africa with a variety of fully integrated models that assist over 240 financial institutions across Africa to manage payments and collections, asset financing, mortgage business, and insurance premium financing, among others. Having opened shop back […]
By Our Reporter At the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Denis Orech and two friends from Lira University decided to devise means of delivering goods and services to people in Lira town who were trapped in their homes due to a national lockdown. The three, using their knowledge in information technology, started an […]
