This week's edition of Finovate Global highlights recent fintech headlines from Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa.
Circle and Sasai Fintech team up to boost adoption of USDC
Digital asset platform Circle announced a new partnership between one of its affiliates and Sasai Fintech, a business of Cassava Technologies. The partnership is designed to boost adoption of Circle's USDC stablecoin and expand internet-native financial infrastructure across Africa.
“Africa's digital economy...
One of the great promises of fintech innovation is the idea of democratizing finance. This includes everything from helping more deserving borrowers secure access to credit to helping a new generation of savers and investors learn good habits that will ensure financial wellness from young adulthood through retirement. As much of the fintech world becomes increasingly—and understandably—obsessed with the latest developments in AI and decentralized finance, a sizable contingent of...
- Italian fintech Opentech will power a new peer-to-peer money transfer solution under development by Viseca Payment Services and Cornèr Bank.
- Viseca and Cornèr Bank will leverage Opentech's OpenPay Send technology, an all-in-one platform that orchestrates card-based transfers across multiple schemes and endpoints.
- Opentech most recently demonstrated its technology at FinovateEurope 2026 in London. Stefano Andreani is Founder and CEO.
Viseca Payment Services and Cornèr...
- Financial crime and fraud prevention specialist Feedzai unveiled its RiskFM (Risk Foundational Model) solution this week.
- RiskFM covers a broad range of financial data to provide risk decisioning across fraud detection, anti-money laundering, and other financial crime.
- Headquartered in New York and founded in 2008, Feedzai made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2014 in London.
Financial crime prevention innovator Feedzai introduced its RiskFM (Risk Foundational Model)...
Finovate's celebration of Women's History Month continues!
This year FinovateSpring 2026 will feature a dozen female fintech founders and co-founders in its demo company line-up. Today, as part of our commemoration of Women's History Month, we are excited to showcase these innovators, whose solutions are helping banks, credit unions, and lenders bring new financial products and services to their customers and members.
“I'm thrilled to welcome these incredible female founders to...
