{"id":198474,"date":"2025-05-20T12:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-maxab-wasoko-acquires-egyptian-b2b-e-marketplace-fatura\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T12:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:40:12","slug":"kenya-maxab-wasoko-acquires-egyptian-b2b-e-marketplace-fatura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-maxab-wasoko-acquires-egyptian-b2b-e-marketplace-fatura\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Maxab-Wasoko Acquires Egyptian B2b E-Marketplace Fatura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>MaxAB-Wasoko, the merged retail e-commerce and supply chain platform, has acquired Egyptian e-marketplace Fatura from EFG Finance, a subsidiary of EFG Holding.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">As part of the transaction, EFG Finance will receive an equity stake in MaxAB-Wasoko and a seat on its board of directors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The acquisition is part of MaxAB-Wasoko&#8217;s strategy to consolidate B2B commerce and fintech operations across Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The move follows the 2024 merger between Egypt-based MaxAB and Kenya-based Wasoko, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505200200.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 MaxAB-Wasoko, the merged retail e-commerce and supply chain platform, has acquired Egyptian e-marketplace Fatura from EFG Finance, a subsidiary of EFG Holding. As part of the transaction, EFG Finance will receive an equity stake in MaxAB-Wasoko and a seat on its board of directors. The acquisition is part of MaxAB-Wasoko&#8217;s strategy to consolidate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":198475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[9984,258,256,39921,6639,51395,51396,4688,430,51394,257,254],"class_list":["post-198474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-acquires","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-b2b","tag-egyptian","tag-emarketplace","tag-fatura","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-maxabwasoko","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}