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Moonshot by TechCabal is back! 🚀 This year, we’re moving to the iconic National Theatre, Lagos, to make room for our biggest chapter yet. We’re bringing together the discipline and ambition African tech needs, backed by serious numbers: 💰 $15B+ startup valuation on our exhibition floor. 💹 $5B+ capital represented by our investor pool. 🏆 $105K+ in TC Battlefield prizes awarded to date. Be a part of history. Come connect with the leaders, innovators, builders, creatives, and investors building the future of African tech. Early bird tickets are now available: moonshot.techcabal.com #Moonshot2026 #MoonshotbyTechCabal
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.@greyfinance is looking to use foreign currency salary records to help remote workers access credit, addressing a gap in how traditional lenders assess professionals earning internationally.
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With Paycheck, Obong said that a customer receiving $1,000 monthly could choose to allocate 20% to savings, another 10% to other financial needs, and retain 70% for immediate expenses. Users can adjust these allocations rather than follow a fixed spending formula.
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If you were not at #Moonshot2026 , we can only encourage you to be at #Moonshot2027. But in the main time, watch this recap from Day 1 through Tomiwa’s POV
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-@_Taaooma is speaking at Moonshot today! Today at Moonshot, content creator Taaooma joins Kehinde Fagbule, Senior Consultant at TC Insights, to unpack what it takes to build a creator business that lasts beyond viral moments. Don't miss it! #Moonshot2026 #MoonshotbyTechCabal
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EXCLUSIVE: @Mastercard , the global payments giant, and @InterswitchGRP , a Nigerian payments infrastructure provider, have partnered to bring @GooglePay to eligible Mastercard cardholders in Nigeria, allowing customers to make contactless payments using Android smartphones.
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The integration uses Mastercard’s tokenisation technology, which replaces sensitive card information with unique digital credentials to protect customer details during transactions.
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Interswitch provides the infrastructure connecting participating banks to the tokenisation and payment processing systems. #techcabal #tcexclusive #Moonshot2026
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In April, Flutterwave, a pan-African fintech unicorn, secured a national microfinance banking licence through its acquisition of open banking startup Mono. It joined a growing group of Nigerian fintechs moving into regulated banking.
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was driven by the need to control more of the infrastructure behind its payments business. “What we’ve seen is you cannot provide a great payment experience if you don’t control the entire stack, or at least a big piece of the stack,”
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Agboola said. “And in most of those large stacks, it’s easy to source a third party who does not share the same level of focus that you have.” Read the full story here : techcabal.com/2026/10/28/flu…
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Grey, the Y Combinator-backed cross-border payments company, has launched Paycheck, a salary account for professionals earning in United States dollars, British pounds, and euros, as it sets its sights on growing beyond its current base of three million users.
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“After a month of work, employees should have more to look forward to than the additional responsibility of sorting through transactions and keeping track of their earnings,” Idorenyin Obong, Grey’s co-founder and chief executive officer, said during a keynote address at Moonshot
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