Wild divergence between Kenya and Rwanda this quarter — interoperability is doing the heavy lifting in EA.

Worth a read — Nigerian retail is moving faster than the macro suggests.

Standard Bank's digital cost ratio finally crossed the line. Capitec still way ahead though.

Pepkor entering banking is the distribution story of the year — 30M shoppers is a deposit base most banks would kill for.

H1 funding rebound is real but concentrated — three sectors took 70% of the money. Read the deal-flow breakdown before you model 2027.

Stablecoin settlement volumes on the NGN corridor surprised even us. This benchmark tracks what banks aren't reporting yet.

The readiness-to-credit link here mirrors what we see in our own book — digital behaviour predicts repayment better than payslips.

The sovereign debt reset piece is the clearest read on 2026 capital markets I've seen. Eurobond windows are reopening selectively.

Finally a proper map of who's building what in African PropTech. The mortgage-tech whitespace is bigger than the chart suggests.

Carbon markets are moving from pilot to portfolio. The 2026 inflection data here is now my go-to citation for board decks.

Rate cuts changed corridor economics overnight — the H1 money-movement maps explain where the margin went.