Archive · Crypto & digital assets
All 21 archive entries filed under crypto & digital assets, most recent first.
The Central Bank of Kenya advertised senior and managerial roles for virtual asset licensing and compliance functions in late April 2026, applications closing 18 May, before the VASP Regulations had even been finalised.
The National Treasury published the Draft Capital Flow Management Regulations 2026 for public comment in April 2026, replacing the Exchange Control Regulations of 1961 and bringing crypto assets formally inside South Africa's capital flow framework for the first time.
The FSCA published a supervisory update on crypto asset service provider licensing on 15 April 2026, reporting 30 supervisory inspections of CASPs conducted between April 2025 and March 2026 under the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act.
SEC Nigeria issued a rules exposure draft on 14 April 2026 setting a minimum paid-up share capital of N7.5 billion for Free Trade Zone Entities seeking to offer or issue shares on the Nigerian capital market, with a two-week comment window through the Rules Committee.
Public participation on the Draft Virtual Asset Service Providers Regulations 2026 closed on 10 April 2026, keeping Kenya on track to operationalise VASP licensing in 2026.
South Africa's National Treasury confirmed it will amend the Exchange Control Regulations to govern transfers of cryptocurrency to non-residents, per an April 2026 analysis published on Polity.
Africoin, a Rwanda-headquartered platform tokenising real-world assets (cocoa, coffee, gold, silver and verified carbon credits on Ethereum), was admitted to Ghana's SEC Virtual Asset Sandbox on 8 April 2026, among the first participants under the VASP Act 2025 (Act 1154).
The Central Bank of Nigeria granted Flutterwave a national microfinance banking licence in early April 2026, clearing one of Africa's largest payments processors to take deposits, lend and run accounts, with its SendApp remittance product (over one million users) as the consumer foundation.
Ripple published research on 6 April 2026 identifying eight African nations advancing crypto regulation, placing South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya in the lead, with Ghana introducing initial compliance measures and Botswana, Namibia, Seychelles and Ethiopia at earlier stages.
The Central Bank of Nigeria inaugurated a Payments Service Providers Committee in Lagos on 2 April 2026, seating the CBN, commercial banks, mobile money operators and fintechs at one table, with a new Payments System Vision promised within a month.
The National Treasury published the Draft Virtual Asset Service Providers Regulations 2026 for public consultation on 17 March 2026, the first implementing instrument under the VASP Act 2025.
CMA Rwanda has set out a regulatory approach to the tokenisation of financial assets, presented at the Inclusive FinTech Forum in Kigali in early 2026: securities tokenisation, real-world asset tokenisation and tokenised funds, treated under the existing Capital Markets Act rather than a new statute.
On 1 March 2026 the National Bank of Ethiopia declared all birr-paired peer-to-peer cryptocurrency transactions illegal unless explicitly authorised, citing foreign exchange manipulation, fraud and the absence of AML safeguards.
At the end of February 2026 the BCEAO circulated a questionnaire to fintech operators across the eight-state UEMOA zone on possible uses of cryptocurrencies in the regional financial system, reported by Jeune Afrique on 9 March.
The FSCA imposed a R710,000 administrative penalty on QuickTrade (Pty) Ltd, an online CFD and forex broker, for multiple breaches of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act, including customer due diligence and AML control failures, and coupled the fine with a remediation directive.
SEC Nigeria revoked the registration of Kensington Agro Trading Limited as a capital market operator with immediate effect, in a circular signed 9 February 2026 and published 2 March, acting under section 61(6) of the Investments and Securities Act 2025 and Rule 34(1) of the SEC Rules.
On 30 January 2026 SEC Nigeria issued a public warning against Aurum Bot, an online platform soliciting cryptocurrency investments from Nigerian retail investors without registration or licence.
SEC Nigeria's second public warning of 30 January 2026 named ModMount Services Limited, a CFD broker offering forex, stocks, indices, commodities and cryptocurrency to Nigerian investors, as unlicensed and suspected of fraudulent activity.
Ghana's Virtual Asset Service Providers Act passed Parliament on 19 December 2025 and received presidential assent on 30 December, the third new standalone digital-asset statute on the continent inside three months, after Nigeria's ISA 2025 and Kenya's VASP Act 2025.
Kenya's Virtual Asset Service Providers Act 2025, assented 15 October 2025 and in force from 4 November 2025, made Kenya the first East African country with standalone virtual asset legislation.
The FATF removed South Africa from its grey list on 24 October 2025, ending a multi-year remediation of the country's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regime coordinated across the Treasury, SARB, FIC and FSCA.
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