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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has cleared seven more crypto platforms for its Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme (ARIP), marking the regulator’s most significant expansion of its digital asset sandbox since the programme’s pioneer cohort in August 2024. The new entrants, Bitbarter Technologies Limited, Luno Fintech Nigeria Limited, GetEquity Limited, Koinkoin Global Network Limited, Wrapped CBDC Ltd, Trovotech Ltd, and Blockvault Custodian Ltd, will each receive an Approval-in-Principle (AIP), granting conditional permission to operate within ARIP’s defined parameters while remaining under the SEC’s supervision. How firms get here ARIP admission runs through two structured phases. An applicant first files an…

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has never doubted that it wants a share of crypto profits. What it has lacked, until now, is a coherent rulebook explaining exactly how that share gets calculated. On 1 July 2026, SARS released a draft guide to the taxation of crypto assets, an attempt to finally close the gap between an eight-year-old media statement and a market that has since exploded into staking, DeFi, arbitrage bots and NFT-adjacent tokens. The guide isn’t law. It carries no binding force and creates no “practice generally prevailing”, as SARS states in its preface. But it is…

Ryan Haines / Android AuthorityMost people are no longer upgrading their Android phones every two years. It’s now the norm for consumers to replace their devices every three or four years. It also doesn’t hurt that carriers have embraced 36-month or even 48-month contracts.As such, I totally understand if you’re buying a phone with the intention of keeping it for three or more years. But before you put your money down or sign that contract, I’ve got some tips to keep in mind if you want to buy a phone that will last for years and years. What’s the best…

Africa Private Equity News is pleased to present the June 2026 issue of our Dealmaker’s Log, which tracks the reported African private equity/debt and venture capital transactions from last month (and extending back to an archive of transactions since May 2023).This edition features 38 new transactions from firms including: Carlyle, A.P. Moller Capital, Helios Investment Partners, Capitalworks, Adenia Partners, AfricInvest, Old Mutual Private Equity, TLG Capital, Inspired Evolution, BluePeak Private Capital, ARM-Harith, Cygnum Capital, IMG Capital, Aruwa Capital, Edge Growth, Knife Capital, Holocene, NewTrails Capital, Breega, Algebra Ventures, Janngo Capital, and many more!Access the Dealmaker’s Log June 2026 below: (only…

Candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2027 National Assembly elections in Ondo State have appealed to party members to accept the outcome of the party’s primary elections and avoid protests, stressing that unity is essential to securing victory in the general elections. The appeal was made on Friday in Akure after the candidates returned from Abuja, where the APC concluded the uploading of results from its National Assembly primary elections. Speaking on behalf of the candidates, the APC flag bearer for Ondo West/Ondo East Federal Constituency, Michael Akintomide, urged aggrieved party members to remain calm and respect…

Alexis Caude is the managing partner of Africa-focused investment firm Adenia Partners. In a recent interview with How we made it in Africa, he revealed how he invests his personal money. Caude takes a somewhat conservative approach to his personal investments. He invests in the hospitality sector in Europe and the US, an industry he knows well. He also holds gold and US equities, leaning toward value stocks rather than the technology-driven momentum category. When it comes to equities, he buys both index funds and individual stocks. Referencing Warren Buffett, Caude explains that if one doesn’t have the time to study individual stocks,…

Last month, Mombasa made history as the first African city to host the Our Ocean Conference (OOC) – an international convening to protect and conserve the ocean, gathering well over a hundred countries. Yet the significance of the conference went far beyond where it was held. It demonstrated why Africa is increasingly becoming one of the world’s most influential voices in shaping the future of our ocean. At OOC, the world watched Kenya host and champion ocean action, calling on governments to move from ambition to implementation. African nations announced new marine protected areas in their waters, from Tanzania to…

Paga, one of Africa’s oldest fintech companies, is deepening its push into wealth products through a partnership with blockchain infrastructure startup TBook that will allow users to invest in tokenised real-world assets (RWAs). The partnership will connect Paga’s payment and compliance infrastructure with TBook’s marketplace for tokenised assets built on the Sui blockchain, giving customers and businesses access to investments ranging from fixed-income products to tokenised private assets. The partnership deepens Paga’s infrastructure strategy. Paga Engine, its payments infrastructure business, which it said processed about $12 billion in transaction value in 2025, can now distribute tokenised investment products alongside its…

100% of Nigerian SMEs agree that digital and online payments are vital to growing their business Nigerian SMEs rank training and upskilling staff (79%) and digitizing their business (78%) as their top growth priorities More than two-thirds of SMEs (69%) are seeking credit to grow their business Nigeria’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are looking ahead with confidence and are aligned on what will get them there. More than eight out of ten SMEs (81%) feel confident about the next 12 months, and they unanimously agree that digital and online payments are vital in helping grow their businesses. A Mastercard…