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This collaboration signals a significant advancement in the region’s payment landscape, providing consumers with enhanced flexibility in managing their purchases.
Lipa Later has emerged as a pioneer in offering innovative credit solutions that allow consumers to make purchases and pay for them in installments.
This strategic alliance with Mastercard will amplify Lipa Later’s reach and impact, bringing BNPL options to a broader audience across the African continent.
The partnership aligns well with the growing trend of BNPL solutions gaining traction globally, as consumers seek more flexible and manageable ways to make purchases.
Through its technology and network, Mastercard will empower Lipa Later to scale its BNPL services efficiently and securely across multiple markets.
By allowing consumers to spread payments over time, BNPL solutions offer an alternative to traditional credit options and align with changing consumer preferences.
The Lipa Later-Mastercard partnership signifies a noteworthy advancement in the African fintech landscape, as BNPL solutions gain momentum and become an increasingly integral part of modern commerce.
This collaboration holds the potential to reshape consumer behavior and financial access, ultimately contributing to more inclusive and digitally empowered economies across the continent.

South African startup Jem HR, a platform that helps companies manage HR and employee benefits through WhatsApp, has raised $3.3 million in a pre-Series A funding round.

The Trade and Development Bank (TDB), a key financial institution focused on African development, has secured a $100 million financing package from the British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance arm.

Spiro, a leading African electric mobility company, has secured $50 million in debt financing in a new funding round that will accelerate the expansion of its battery-swapping infrastructure and related clean mobility technologies across the continent.