How regulators across Africa and Asia are writing the rules for AI in finance, and what those rules mean for fintechs, SMEs and capital.
AI Indices
What the GIRAI 2nd Edition means for African financial regulators, the fintechs they license, and the capital watching both. The second edition of the Global Index on Responsible AI (GIRAI), published this year by the Global Center on AI Governance, is the most comprehensive measurement of AI governance ever assembled:
Regulation
A new GSMA study of 200 AI-active South African firms finds the problem was never the law. It's that good law, on its own, governs nothing. There is a comfortable story about why AI governance is weak in African markets, and it goes like this: the regulation
Regulation
Two of the most dynamic emerging markets looked at the same problem AI giving financial advice and reached for almost opposite tools. The contrast tells you something about what regulating AI actually means. Every regulator in the world is staring at the same question right now: what do you do
Regulation
The line between "education" and "advice" used to be academic. As of December 2026, it decides who needs a license. Build an AI tool that helps Kenyans with their money and you run into a question lawyers love and engineers hate: at what point does helpful