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Africa Launches 33 Instant Payment Systems as Liberia Sets 73-Day Record
Africa’s push to connect its 400 million financially excluded adults to real-time digital payments accelerated sharply in 2025, with five new national instant payment systems going live across the continent and one country, Liberia, deploying an entire national infrastructure in just 73 days, according to the AfricaNenda Foundation’s 2025 Annual Report released this month.
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Gaps in interoperability as barriers to inclusive digital payments in Africa
Ennatu Domingo and AfricaNenda’s Jacqueline Jumah and Sabine Mensah argue that instant payment systems play a crucial role in Africa’s digital public infrastructure, but that there are still many barriers to its interoperability – which Europe can help address.
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AfricaNenda: Digital Payment Access is Steadily Increasing. What Barriers Remain?
The instant payment ecosystem in Africa continues to show increased dynamism, as the number of instant payment systems (IPS) expands and more transactions run through them, as documented in the State of Inclusive Instant Payment Systems in Africa 2023 report (SIIPS 2023).
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