by Harriet Ritchie -

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: SoftBank Leads $400m Equity Funding Round for Fintech OPay of Nigeria as it Eyes International Expansion

The SoftBank Vision Fund 2, a vehicle of the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, recently led an investment package totaling USD 400 million in the Nigeria-based financial technology (fintech) firm OPay, a mobile platform for sending payments. The funding round values