Month: December 2025

FCMB Asset Management Limited has received regulatory approval to proceed with the Series II issuance of the FCMB-TLG Private Debt Fund, with a target raise of up to N20 billion. The approval marks a key milestone in the fund’s expansion strategy and signals readiness for the launch of its second issuance phase. Following the approval, […]

For decades, arriving in Nigeria with foreign currency followed a familiar script. Visitors landed with thick envelopes of cash, searched for trusted currency dealers, negotiated rates in hushed conversations, and hoped the money would last until departure. Despite years of progress in banking, fintech innovation, and digital payments, cash remained the dominant entry point into […]

Long before venture capital, accelerators, or startup jargon entered his vocabulary, Achille Arouko’s relationship with technology began with curiosity—and a cybercafé. Growing up in the Benin Republic, technology was distant and abstract. Television was the most advanced device in daily life. Computers were unfamiliar, the Internet inaccessible, and information finite. That changed abruptly when a […]