{"id":9017,"date":"2019-10-22T10:03:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T10:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/?p=9017"},"modified":"2024-07-15T10:03:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T10:03:30","slug":"venture-burn-kenyas-bitpesa-announces-its-rebranded-secured-15m-in-debt-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/venture-burn-kenyas-bitpesa-announces-its-rebranded-secured-15m-in-debt-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Venture Burn: Kenya\u2019s BitPesa announces it\u2019s rebranded, secured $15m in debt finance","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi-based fintech BitPesa has rebranded to become AZA Group and secured $15 million in debt financing from the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). AZA Group now serves as the parent company of BitPesa, TransferZero, and BFX. The rebranding aims to expand AZA&#8217;s operations in the Middle East, Northern, and Southern Africa, increasing liquidity and servicing larger clients. Since its inception in 2013, AZA Group has transacted $1 billion in volume across Africa and has seen 300% transaction growth with the acquisition of TransferZero and the launch of BFX. The company continues to address the lack of financial infrastructure in Africa using innovative financial and technological tools. Read it <a class=\"waffle-rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ventureburn.com\/2019\/10\/kenyas-bitpesa-rebrand-15m-debt-finance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi-based fintech BitPesa has rebranded to become AZA Group and secured $15 million in debt financing from the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). AZA Group now serves as the parent company of BitPesa, TransferZero, and BFX. The rebranding aims to expand AZA&#8217;s operations in the Middle East, Northern, and Southern Africa, increasing liquidity and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":4,"featured_media":9018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[188,779,184,585,919,778,530,678,347,918,920,197],"class_list":["post-9017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aza-news","tag-africa","tag-aza-group","tag-bfx","tag-bitpesa","tag-debt-financing","tag-development-bank-of-southern-africa","tag-digital-currencies","tag-financial-infrastructure","tag-fintech","tag-rebranding","tag-transaction-growth","tag-transferzero"],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017","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=9017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}