AI agents now pay each other in fractions of a cent

South Africa’s banks say PayShap is growing rapidly, but the SARB says adoption remains too slow, and may mandate wider acceptance

An Alibaba AI agent used company servers to mine crypto. The problem is, no-one told it to. AI spending is now live, and nobody’s quite in charge

OpenAI’s Instant Checkout and Coinbase’s x402 point to a new web: frictionless micropayments replacing surveillance, subscriptions and ad-driven models

Not too long ago, Naspers’s e-commerce businesses were burning cash. Now they’re almost all profitable, while the Tencent juggernaut soldiers on

The Pan-African Payment and Settlement System could transform cross-border payments. But it faces integration, liquidity and infrastructure hurdles

Payments company Paystack is a market leader in Nigeria. But it’s set up businesses around Africa too, and is now making inroads in South Africa