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Africa Launches 33 Instant Payment Systems as Liberia Sets 73-Day Record

19 March 2026

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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