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North Africa Editor · Cairo
Nadia Hassan leads AfroEuropa's North Africa desk from Cairo, Egypt, covering the region's startups, fintech and digital economy. Every story is editor-reviewed and credits its original reporting.
The UK challenger bank is restructuring its banking and technology teams to reduce duplication and speed up product delivery, while continuing to hire AI engineers.
The state's attorney general amended its complaint against prediction-market platform Kalshi, alleging it marketed sports betting to users under 21.
A new consortium-backed dollar token, Open USD, has rattled Circle investors, with shares falling sharply as more than 100 firms line up behind the challenger.
Companies investing heavily in AI grew headcount by roughly 10% and entry-level hiring by 12%, according to a new Ramp study that pushes back on fears of mass job cuts.
Standard Chartered will let institutional clients mint and redeem Circle's USDC stablecoin directly through banking rails, starting in Dubai.
The AI infrastructure firm's Aramco Ventures-led round signals a shift toward affordable open models—one that could reshape compute costs for African developers.
AI-native fund operations platform bunch is becoming a shareholder in Luxembourg Fund Services, joining founder Massimo Longoni and CFE Finance Group in a bid to modernise private markets infrastructure.
Visa and M-Pesa are testing stablecoin payments in the Democratic Republic of Congo with Onafriq, signalling deeper crypto experimentation in African mobile money.
FBI chief Kash Patel invested heavily in Strategy (MSTR), a major corporate bitcoin holder, but failed to file a required disclosure on time, according to NOTUS.
The US software giant's second Moroccan research centre signals the country's rise as a trusted base for global tech firms building products for European and African markets.
Nasdaq will distribute its flagship TotalView equity data through the Pyth Data Marketplace, opening depth-of-book feeds to blockchain applications and developers.
Christopher Delgado admitted to fraud and money laundering tied to a scheme that took in at least $400 million, agreeing to forfeit mansions, cars and crypto wallets.
The US cleared Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 30, weeks after a cybersecurity finding triggered an export order that cut off access for all users.
The French banking group's asset servicing arm issued a euro-pegged token and subscribed to a tokenised Amundi money market fund, in what it calls a European first.
Nigeria's central bank stripped 47 microfinance banks of their licences, including one acquired by fintech Sycamore, which says the action stems from pre-acquisition problems.
A Finextra event puts the spotlight on how financial institutions can integrate AI into banking systems from customer-facing tools to back-office operations.
NYLIM is debuting a tokenized high-yield corporate bond portfolio in partnership with Centrifuge, marking a fresh step for institutional asset tokenization.
As digital money reshapes settlement and infrastructure, banks are examining where they can add value—and revenue—in an evolving payments landscape.
Shoppers spent a record $26.4bn during Amazon's four-day Prime Day event, with AI assistants increasingly funnelling buyers toward purchases.
The UK's regulator has finalised rules to court crypto firms just as the EU's MiCA regime tightens — opening a gap that is already pushing companies to rethink where in Europe they belong.
