Optasia investors are unsettled as founder Bassim Haidar exits most of his stake

Billionaires Africa | 25.04.2026 19:16
Optasia, the AI-driven microlending platform that listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in November 2025 in one of the bourse's biggest new additions in years, has unsettled investors with a sequence of developments that, taken together, raise questions few post-IPO companies would want asked this early in their public market life, the Financial Mail reported on April 23.