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Introducing Kora Startup Kit

Introducing Kora Startup Kit

The Kora Startup Kit is a directory of handpicked, pre-vetted companies we recommend to businesses like yours starting up in Africa.

November 5, 2024
November 5, 2024
2 mins read
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Merchant Security Awareness

Typosquatting and brand impersonation explained

Typosquatting and brand impersonation explained

In this blogpost, we’ll teach you the difference between typosquatting and brand impersonation and steps you can take to protect yourself. 

October 21, 2024
October 22, 2024
6 minute read
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Industry Insights

Open Banking in Africa and the opportunities for businesses

Open Banking in Africa and the opportunities for businesses

Open banking is growing in Egypt, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and all over Africa. Here's how businesses can take advantage.

October 20, 2024
October 21, 2024
10 minute read
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Industry Insights

Five challenges you have to deal with when building a fintech in Africa (and solutions)

Five challenges you have to deal with when building a fintech in Africa (and solutions)

There are challenges to building fintech in Africa. We spoke to three experts to provide insights into how to solve them.

October 20, 2024
October 21, 2024
8 minute read
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Introducing Kora Identity APIs for customer ID verification

Introducing Kora Identity APIs for customer ID verification

With Kora's Identity APIs, you can verify customer IDs in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, and Nigeria. Create a smooth and secure KYC and KYB onboarding process for your business.

November 12, 2024
November 13, 2024
5 minute read
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Introducing Kora Startup Kit

Introducing Kora Startup Kit

The Kora Startup Kit is a directory of handpicked, pre-vetted companies we recommend to businesses like yours starting up in Africa.

November 5, 2024
November 5, 2024
2 mins read
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Product

Introducing virtual USD cards issuing for businesses

Introducing virtual USD cards issuing for businesses

Issue USD virtual cards for customers to pay for things online or their bills and also issue corporate cards for your business needs.

October 14, 2024
October 18, 2024
4 minute read
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Say hello to “Pay with Bank”

Say hello to “Pay with Bank”

A post informing the general public about Kora's latest feature. Pay with Bank.

February 27, 2023
November 11, 2022
2 mins read
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Events

Kora hosts the maiden edition of Sundown Sessions

Sundown Sessions is more than an event; it is a gathering for Africa's brightest minds to unwind, network, and absorb insights from leaders in the fintech startup ecosystem. ‍

November 22, 2024
November 22, 2024
3 minute read
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Events

Kora x GDG Owerri: Empowering Africa's next generation of tech talent

A summary of the KoraHack23 Hackathon sponsored by Kora and Google Developers Group.

May 8, 2023
May 8, 2023
2 mins read
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Kora partners with Healthracka to provide employees with free cervical cancer test kits

Kora partners with Healthracka to provide employees with free cervical cancer test kits.

April 6, 2023
April 6, 2023
1 min read
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Kora hosts Harvard Business School students at Lagos office

Kora welcomed the Africa Caucus group from the Harvard Business School to their office in Lagos, Nigeria.

March 31, 2023
March 31, 2023
1 min read
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Inside Kora

Kora opens UK office as it evolves its pan-African payment infrastructure

Located at the heart of the UK's fastest-growing region in terms of technology, Birmingham was chosen as Kora's first UK office because of its solid infrastructure and ease of access to talent.

January 24, 2024
June 20, 2022
3 mins read
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Merchant Stories

Really Simple Social built a tool that changed advertising in Nigeria

In advertising, agencies always have to balance the client’s expectations and deliverables without overshooting the client’s budget. So, getting a tool that works was important. The first objective was to provide social media marketing services that delivered to client expectations while being cost-effective. So, they built a solution to cater to that need and now help other agencies get the same result for their clients, not just in Nigeria but worldwide.

May 5, 2024
May 8, 2024
3 mins read
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Merchant Stories

The Ultimate Frisbee Club: Growing a community of disc sports athletes in Africa

To collect payments, Sadiq, the founder of the Ultimate Frisbee Club used Kora to create a payment link and shared it on the club’s WhatsApp group and it made the donations smooth and seamless. ‍Using Kora also helped him build transparency because he could now export the finances of the community and share them with the rest of the organisers and sponsors. ‍

May 5, 2024
May 7, 2024
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Merchant Stories

Revolutionising leather fashion in Nigeria, Ghana and beyond. A journey with Detail Africa

Strategically using Kora to accept payments in Ghana, Detail Africa embraces a pan-African perspective. The move aligns with the company's expansion plans, demonstrating a commitment to reaching new markets across the continent. 

November 17, 2023
November 17, 2023
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Merchant Stories

Oystr: Unlocking credit access for the unbanked in Africa

How Oystr Finance is unlocking credit for Africa's unbanked.

July 5, 2023
July 10, 2023
3 mins read
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Embrace Equity

#EmbraceEquity: Favour

For our International Women’s Month series, #EmbraceEquality, here’s Favour, a member of the People Operations team at Kora.

March 10, 2023
March 10, 2023
1 min read
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Embrace Equity

#EmbraceEquity: Promise

For our International Women’s Month series, #EmbraceEquality, here’s Promise, a Senior Product Manager at Kora.

March 10, 2023
March 10, 2023
1 min read
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Embrace Equity

#EmbraceEquity: Ayobami

For our International Women’s Month series, #EmbraceEquality, here’s Ayobami, a front-end engineer at Kora.

March 10, 2023
March 10, 2023
1 min read
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Embrace Equity

#EmbraceEquity: Ajiri

For our International Women's Month series, #EmbraceEquality, here's Ajiri, a Senior Product Designer at Kora.

March 10, 2023
March 10, 2023
1 min read
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Merchant Security Awareness

Opening the wrong email can expose you to cybercriminals. Here’s how to protect yourself

It’s important to have proper processes to protect you and your business from an email attack. In this post, we’ll give you tips to immediately apply to boost your email security and protect yourself from scams.

March 20, 2024
March 20, 2024
4 mins read
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Merchant Security Awareness

AI is revolutionising cyberattacks. This is what you can do to defend your business

The rise of AI offers several benefits to society at large. It also ushers in security concerns. Social engineers are already using Generative AI to create sophisticated phishing campaigns. As a quick refresher, social engineering is the art of misleading people via psychological manipulation. It’s not hard to imagine how social engineers could use AI to power their attacks.

February 27, 2024
February 27, 2024
3 mins read
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Merchant Security Awareness

Best practices for safely implementing AI in your business

Artificial intelligence (AI) is gradually becoming an everyday tool for more and more employees — be it for creating documents, images, or code. However, if used carelessly, AI can also pose risks, for example, data protection, copyright issues, or liability for possible damage. 

January 23, 2024
January 23, 2024
3 mins read
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Merchant Security Awareness

Security Awareness: Social Engineering Red Flags for the holidays

Cybercriminals have upped their game. Have you? Look out for these red flags so you don’t fall for cybercriminals’ tricks.

December 22, 2023
December 22, 2023
3 mins read