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  • Senior Reporter and Newsletter Editor, TechCabal
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Africa is building a single payments market but its currencies remain divided

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Africa is building regional payment systems that could make cross-border money transfers faster and cheaper, but its fragmented currencies remain a problem that payment rails alone cannot solve. The continent has more than 40 currencies, many of which are not directly convertible, forcing banks and payment providers to rely on settlement banks, correspondent banking and pre-funded accounts to move money between markets. Cross-border payments already work despite Africa’s currency fragmentation.
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Next Wave: The next media business will be a strange one

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By Kenn Abuya Verified
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First published August 16, 2026 Something funny is happening in the media business today. The Internet spent 20 years teaching publishers to chase scale, and just as many of them got pretty good at it, the Internet decided that scale was no longer the prize.
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Kenya approves first locally domiciled ETF as bank stocks rally

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Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has approved a new investment fund from Wall Street Africa (WSA), a Nairobi-based financial media and fintech startup, that will allow investors to buy into a group of listed banks in a single investment. The WSA Banking exchange-traded fund (ETF) will hold shares in banks listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). According to CMA,  it will be Kenya’s first locally domiciled exchange-traded fund and is expected to list in the fourth quarter.
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