Fintech News Dominates Holiday Headlines + Insights From CES 2017

Published: Jan. 18, 2017, 10:21 a.m.

b"The team at the African Tech Round-up has returned from the Festive break, and so we\\u2019re officially back to our normal programming. \\n\\nAt the tail-end of this episode, Andile Masuku chats with Nicholus Steward, founder and CEO of the Swazi Bridge Project. He attended the world\\u2019s biggest tech show, CES 2017 in Las Vegas two weeks ago, and he\\u2019ll be sharing insights he gleaned from the event.\\n\\nWe\\u2019re also catching up on some biggest stories that broke while we were on holiday, including Standard Bank acquiring Firepay\\u2014 the company behind the SnapScan payments app, the George Soros-backed VC, Leapfrog raising $800 million to invest in Africa's finance scene, and the Nigerian fintech startup, Paystack, closing a $1.3 million seed investment round involving Tencent, Comcast Ventures and Singularity Investments. There's no doubt about it, folks. Fintech is definitely a hot ticket at the moment!\\n\\nMusic Credits:\\nMusic by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)\\nMusic licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution"