{"id":8903,"date":"2019-10-23T14:41:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T14:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/?p=8903"},"modified":"2024-07-11T14:58:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T14:58:37","slug":"the-kenyan-wall-street-aza-formerly-bitpesa-receives-15-million-funding-from-sa-lender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/the-kenyan-wall-street-aza-formerly-bitpesa-receives-15-million-funding-from-sa-lender\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kenyan Wall Street: AZA (formerly BitPesa) Receives $15 Million Funding from SA lender","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) has extended $15 million in funding to AZA, formerly known as BitPesa. This funding will improve liquidity and support AZA&#8217;s global expansion. AZA, now the parent company to BitPesa, BFX, and TransferZero, will offer various financial services, including cryptocurrency liquidity and exchange, SME payments, and business remittances. AZA&#8217;s headquarters remain in Nairobi, with regional offices in Lagos, London, Luxembourg, Dakar, and Madrid, and operations in multiple African countries. Read it <a class=\"waffle-rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kenyanwallstreet.com\/aza-formerly-bitpesa-receives-15-million-funding-from-the-development-bank-of-southern-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) has extended $15 million in funding to AZA, formerly known as BitPesa. This funding will improve liquidity and support AZA&#8217;s global expansion. AZA, now the parent company to BitPesa, BFX, and TransferZero, will offer various financial services, including cryptocurrency liquidity and exchange, SME payments, and business remittances. AZA&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":4,"featured_media":8904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[569,16],"tags":[773,188,771,585,775,583,772,778,595,776,355,777,774],"class_list":["post-8903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aza-news","category-company-announcements","tag-15-million-funding","tag-africa","tag-aza","tag-bitpesa","tag-business-remittances","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-dbsa","tag-development-bank-of-southern-africa","tag-financial-services","tag-global-expansion","tag-liquidity","tag-nairobi","tag-sme-payments"],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}