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BURN, Africa’s leading clean cookstove manufacturer and carbon project developer, has signed a landmark agreement with the Trade and Development Bank Group (TDB Group) to scale access to clean cooking in Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Zambia. The deal, which includes both debt and results-based financing through TDB and its concessional arm, the Trade and Development Fund (TDF), will enable BURN to deliver its clean cooking appliances to 430,000 households across the region. The partnership is part of TDB Group’s new ASCENT Platform, supported by the World Bank under Mission 300, an ambitious initiative to connect 300…

Visa has appointed Tareq Muhmood to be its Regional President for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMEA). In his new role, he will be responsible for leading operations across more than 86 innovative and fast-growing markets. Visa’s CEMEA operations today serve more than 1,800 clients from 23 local offices across the region. Mr. Muhmood brings more than 30 years of banking and payments experience to the role. He most recently served as head of Value-Added Services for Visa’s Europe region, based in London, and originally joined Visa in 2019 as Group Country Manager for Southeast Asia, based…

Yellow Card announced a partnership with Visa to help drive the next phase of innovation in cross-border payments and financial infrastructure across emerging markets where Yellow Card is licensed to operate. Through this partnership, Visa and Yellow Card will collaborate to explore stablecoin use cases and opportunities to help streamline treasury operations, enhance liquidity management, and enable faster, more cost-effective money movement across borders. “Traditional payment companies continue to question not ‘if’ they need a stablecoin strategy, but how quickly they can deploy one,” said Chris Maurice, Co-Founder and CEO of Yellow Card. “We are thrilled to partner with Visa…

Mastercard and enza – a payment solutions company – have collaborated to connect fintech companies across Africa to the Mastercard network. This collaboration will enable fintech players to build propositions on the enza platform that serve both consumers and businesses with embedded Mastercard payment solutions capabilities.  According to a report by the European Investment Bank, the number of fintech companies in Africa has nearly tripled since 2020. Many of these innovators focus on embedding payment services into broader solutions that tackle financial access, offering alternatives to legacy systems that often have a high cost to serve. Fintech companies in Africa will now…

Genetec, the global leader in enterprise physical security software, hosted its inaugural security symposium as part of its regional strategy to consolidate its partners’ network and streamline access to unified, intelligent, and sector-specific security solutions across East Africa.  Held in the beautiful Radisson Blu Hotel & Residence Nairobi Arboretum, the exclusive forum brought together key channel partners from Africa to explore emerging physical security challenges and demonstrate how integrated security can ultimately power safer, smarter, and more resilient organizations and public spaces. The symposium reinforced the commitment by Genetec to support East Africa’s economic growth through technology that protects the everyday while enabling operational efficiency and long-term…

Zoho has announced the launch of Zia Hubs, a solution within Zoho WorkDrive that brings new forms of unstructured business data into the company’s broad portfolio of applications and AI services. Using Zia Hubs, organisations can now present any type of business content to Zoho’s powerful capabilities and services—including agentic AI, comprehensive analysis, and accurate, unified search—regardless of file format or structure. “According to IDC, 80 percent of business data is unstructured,” said Veerakumar Natarajan, Country Head, Zoho Kenya. “Most unstructured data is text-based, meaning pertinent information lives within email conversations, social media posts, word processor documents, or audio and video transcripts. With Zia Hubs built into…

Liquid C2 has attained Platinum Partner status with global cyber security leader Sophos, the highest level in Sophos’ partner programme. As a Managed Service Provider Partner across Africa, we can deliver flexible, subscription-based solutions and services across the continent. This milestone, which applies to all its operations across the continent, highlights Liquid C2’s proven capabilities in delivering cutting-edge cyber security services. Additionally, our customers will now be able to access cutting-edge protection through a monthly billing model—eliminating the need for large upfront investments and making enterprise-grade security more accessible and scalable. “As African businesses grow and evolve, they are exposed…

NTT DATA has launched its new report, “The AI Security Balancing Act: From Risk to Innovation,” highlighting the opportunities and risks AI presents in cybersecurity. The findings show a misalignment among C-Suite leaders when it comes to business goals and operational readiness for GenAI deployment. The report, which includes data from an NTT DATA survey of morethan 2,300 senior GenAI decision makers, comprising 1,500 *C-Suite leaders across 34 countries, found that while CEOs and business leaders are committed to GenAI adoption, CISOs and operational leaders lack the necessary guidance, clarity and resources to fully address security risks and infrastructure challenges associated with…

Embed Financial Group Holdings (EFGH) has announced the appointment of Eric Mboma as Chief Executive Officer for Africa. “It is with great pleasure and gratitude for me to announce that we have onboarded Eric Mboma as our CEO for Africa. I have known Eric and worked with him for a few years in Africa, and our love for the continent, and our aspirations for it, are aligned in many ways. Always a steady pair of hands, with a strong strategic mindset coupled with exemplary execution skillset. With his knowledge and capabilities, Embed Financial Group Holdings will be on track for…

Africa Data Centres has formed a commercial partnership with Blue Turtle Technologies, one of South Africa’s leading enterprise IT solutions providers, to deploy colocation services in the Cape Town and Midrand data centres. This agreement marks a significant step in expanding South Africa’s enterprise cloud and digital infrastructure ecosystem, enabling secure, scalable, and compliant colocation and private hosted cloud services for local enterprise customers.  The partnership enables Blue Turtle Technologies to deploy several racks, providing their enterprise clients with access to world-class, secure, and compliant colocation and private hosted cloud services. Additionally, this collaboration will also allow South African businesses…