08/25/2021

Can companies build on their digital surge?

What this CEO failed to appreciate was that the improvements in digital sales had almost nothing to do with what the company had done and almost everything to do with the realities of life during the pandemic, when people were flocking to digital channels

08/25/2021

Ex-Greensill Risk Chief Addresses its Failure

Downes was a top executive at Greensill, the U.K.-based supply chain boutique led by Lex Greensill which maintained an $10.1 billion line of funds with Credit Suisse.

08/24/2021

African fintech OPay valued at $2B

The new financing also comes two years after OPay announced two funding rounds in 2019 — $50 million in June and a $120 million Series B in November.

08/20/2021

African fintech raises $15M

In a conversation with TechCrunch, Playford references building personalized user fintech experiences to what Alipay and WeChat have done in the past couple of years.