Africa’s investment landscape is full of opportunities, but accessing them across national borders has not always been straightforward.
Investors looking to diversify their portfolios across African markets often encounter different regulatory requirements, brokerage systems, currencies, and settlement processes. For international investors and members of the African diaspora, these challenges can make participation even more complicated.
MyStocks Africa is positioning itself to address some of these barriers.
The financial technology company is developing a digital investment platform that brings together opportunities across multiple African capital markets, allowing eligible investors to explore equities, exchange-traded funds, bonds, funds, and selected pre-IPO investments through one account.
Currently covering more than eight markets, according to the company, MyStocks has a longer-term ambition to make investment opportunities across all 54 African countries more accessible.
At the center of this expansion is a strategy that combines technology with institutional partnerships, an area being driven by Scanlon Botha, the company’s co-founder and chief partnerships officer.
Building Connections Across African Markets
Connecting investors to investment opportunities across different countries requires more than a digital platform. It also requires relationships with the financial institutions responsible for facilitating transactions within those markets.
For MyStocks, partnerships with banks, brokerage firms, financial institutions, and technology companies form an important part of its operating and expansion strategy.
Botha is responsible for developing these relationships, expanding distribution opportunities, and strengthening the company’s international presence.
His role reflects a broader challenge facing fintech businesses seeking to operate across Africa: building the institutional relationships and infrastructure required to make cross-border financial services work.
MyStocks’ approach is built around creating a more connected investment experience, reducing the need for investors to navigate multiple platforms and financial intermediaries independently.
As the company expands its reach, the strength of these partnerships will be important to how effectively it can deliver on its wider ambitions.
The Dangote Refinery IPO and Access to African Investment Opportunities
One of the company’s recent initiatives has involved connecting eligible investors to the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals initial public offering in Nigeria.
The offer, which opened in September 2026, comprised 4.1 billion ordinary shares priced at ₦525 each, with a minimum subscription of 10 shares. The Nigerian Exchange announced the commencement of the ₦2.15 trillion offer, which closed in October.
Through its Dangote IPO initiative, MyStocks provided an additional digital route through which eligible investors could access the offering, subject to verification, regulatory requirements, and the terms of the offer.
The initiative illustrates the type of opportunity the company is seeking to facilitate: connecting investors, including those outside a particular market, to significant investment opportunities within African economies.
Beyond the Dangote offering, the company’s wider ambition is to make access to African investment markets less dependent on geographical location.
A Pan-African Vision for Investment
MyStocks’ long-term ambition extends beyond providing access to individual stock exchanges.
The company wants to build a connected investment ecosystem spanning Africa’s capital markets, making it easier for investors to discover and participate in opportunities across different economies.
Its platform currently highlights access to markets, including Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, and other African markets, alongside investment products that extend beyond publicly listed equities.
This approach also reflects a wider shift in how financial inclusion is being discussed across the continent.
While much of Africa’s fintech growth has centered on payments, digital banking, and financial transfers, investment accessibility presents another opportunity: enabling more people to participate in business ownership, capital formation, and long-term wealth creation.
For this ambition to become sustainable, however, technology must work alongside reliable financial infrastructure, regulatory compliance, and trusted institutional partners.
MyStocks acknowledges this distinction in its operating model. The company functions as a financial technology platform, while regulated partners provide brokerage, custody, settlement, and other regulated services where required.
What Comes Next for MyStocks Africa?
As African capital markets continue to develop, the ability to connect investors with opportunities across different countries could become increasingly important.
For MyStocks Africa, the challenge is translating its pan-African vision into a functioning network of accessible markets, institutional relationships, and investment services.
Scanlon Botha’s partnerships role is part of that effort, supporting the company’s expansion beyond individual markets and strengthening the relationships needed to build a cross-border investment platform.
Ultimately, MyStocks is pursuing a bigger opportunity than simply making stocks available through an application. It wants to make African capital markets more connected to one another and more accessible to investors around the world.
Whether it can achieve that ambition will depend not only on the technology it builds but also on the strength of its partnerships, its ability to navigate different regulatory environments, and the trust it earns from investors.
