Africa: Technology

Most fintech founders treat compliance the same way many Nigerians treat car insurance: get the bare minimum coverage, pay the premium, hope you never need it, and try not to think about it too much.

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South Africa's 2026 Budget marks a significant step forward in the regulation of crypto assets, particularly in relation to cross-border capital flows.

Most organisations sign non-disclosure agreements ("NDA") as a matter of routine. They are often treated as preliminary documents exchanged at the start of a commercial discussion, reviewed lightly and executed quickly.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (‘NCC'), the National Pension Commission (‘PenCom'), the Nigeria Revenue Service (‘NRS'), the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (‘FRCN')...

On 27 February 2026, the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) issued a public notice declaring that Birr-paired peer-to-peer (P2P) arrangements on trading platforms are not permitted unless explicitly authorized by NBE, and that any Birr-denominated P2P trading or exchange involving cryptocurrencies is prohibited.

Technology vendors rarely ask direct permission to train their models using your data. Instead, that permission is often hidden in ordinary-looking clauses found in SaaS and other agreements.

If you have accessed any social media platform recently, you will have likely been met with a wave of caricatures generated by artificial intelligence ("AI") tools.

Most organisations sign non-disclosure agreements ("NDA") as a matter of routine. They are often treated as preliminary documents exchanged at the start of a commercial discussion, reviewed lightly and executed quickly.