--- title: London lands Africa’s hottest fintech IPO | daily.dev description: Airtel Africa has chosen the London Stock Exchange for the IPO of its mobile money unit, Airtel Money, targeting a listing in the second half of 2026. The IPO... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/london-lands-africa-s-hottest-fintech-ipo-hana6midu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: London lands Africa’s hottest fintech IPO | daily.dev og:description: Airtel Africa has chosen the London Stock Exchange for the IPO of its mobile money unit, Airtel Money, targeting a listing in the second half of 2026. The IPO... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/london-lands-africa-s-hottest-fintech-ipo-hana6midu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Hana6MiDu.png og:image:alt: London lands Africa’s hottest fintech IPO og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # London lands Africa’s hottest fintech IPO **[TechCentral](https://daily.dev/sources/techcentral)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Airtel Africa has chosen the London Stock Exchange for the IPO of its mobile money unit, Airtel Money, targeting a listing in the second half of 2026. The IPO could value Airtel Money at around $10 billion and raise $1.5 billion, potentially making it one of London's biggest listings in years. With over 54 million customers across 14 African countries, Airtel Money would become the first of Africa's big three mobile money platforms to list separately from its telecoms parent, providing a public benchmark for valuing African mobile money businesses. The timeline was pushed back from H1 2026 due to war-related energy cost pressures stemming from the Iran conflict. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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