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Managing Editor, Africa · Lagos
Festus Folo is AfroEuropa's Managing Editor for Africa, based in Lagos, Nigeria, steering coverage across the continent's fastest-growing tech markets. Every story is editor-reviewed and credits its original reporting.
Anthropic's new mid-tier Claude Sonnet 5 nears flagship Opus 4.8 performance at under half the price, with availability across all plans.
Analysts say Bitcoin sits roughly $5,000 from a level that has marked the floor in past bear markets, drawing European traders' attention.
Google's new Nano Banana 2 Lite generates images in four seconds for under four cents per thousand, targeting developers building at scale.
Franklin Templeton moved a tokenized US Treasury to Virtu Financial in what Tradeweb called the first real-time transaction settled against USDCx on the Canton Network.
Robinhood unveiled its public mainnet, a set of DeFi products and plans to bring crypto trading to UK residents after months of testing.
Binance has opened trading in bStocks, tokenized US equities regulated in Abu Dhabi, alongside a limited-time campaign quadrupling Alpha Points volume for eligible traders.
Taiwan has approved legislation placing virtual asset firms under regulatory oversight for the first time and imposing reserve and trust requirements on stablecoins.
Emile Burger is leaving his role as chief executive of Tarsus Distribution after a tenure that also saw him serve as the company's finance chief.
Jefferies warned against buying Circle's dip as the Stripe- and Coinbase-backed OUSD stablecoin launches, while CEO Jeremy Allaire touts USDC's network scale.
Two Finextra commentaries argue banks are misjudging both their technology roadmaps and how they underwrite merchant sectors like supplements as 2026 approaches.
Anthropic's new mid-tier Claude Sonnet 5 reportedly approaches the performance of its flagship Opus 4.8 at a fraction of the price.
Companies deploying high-risk AI systems in Europe face their first hard obligations this week.
