Voice of FinTech Africa Series with Patrick Awori: African Fintech - state of play with Andrew Barden, Director Insights Dedalus Global & Lead Organizer of Africa Fintech Summit

Nairobi
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Patrick Awori, Founder and CEO at Imaginarium, a Kenyan-based FinTech behind the Circle, a virtual savings platform, hosted another episode of Voice of FinTech: Africa Series. Patrick spoke to Andrew Barden, Director of Insights at Dedalus Global | Lead Organizer and Content Director at Africa Fintech Summit about the state of play on the African FinTech scene and the upcoming Africa Fintech Summit in South Africa.

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Voice of FinTech Africa Series with Patrick Awori: African VC perspectives with Lavanya Anand, Principal of VestedWorld

Nairobi, Kenya
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In this episode of the Africa Series, Patrick Awori speaks to Lavanya Anand, Principal at Vested World, a leading early-stage VC with a diversified portfolio covering East and West Africa about VC perspectives on the opportunities in Africa and zooming on the hottest one of all, FinTech!

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Africa Series with Adejoke Adekunle: Building a digital bank in Africa with Odun Eweniyi, COO of PiggyVest

Lagos, Nigeria
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In this episode of the Africa Series, Joke Adekunle spoke to Odun Eweniyi, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Piggyvest - an online saving and investment platform founded in 2016 to help Nigerians achieve their financial goals. Today, the startup has over 3 million customers and has recently acquired companies like Abeg - popularly known as the Cashapp for Africa.

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Voice of FinTech Africa Series with Patrick Awori: Growing mobile payments across Africa with MFS Africa's Head of Growth, Daniel Maison

Nairobi, Kenya
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In this episode of the Africa Series, Patrick Awori speaks to Daniel Maison, Head of Growth at MFS Africa. They discuss MFS's positioning on the mobile wallet market, how they address customer payment needs, and the role of FinTech in supporting sustainable growth.

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Voice of FinTech Africa Series with Patrick Awori: Powering e-commerce in Africa with Flutterwave's Elizaphan Mouko

Nairobi, Kenya
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In this episode, Patrick Awori interviews Elizaphan Mouko, Flutterwave’s East Africa Business Head, about their strategy for the region and why supporting Africa’s small businesses is an important pillar for their organization and economic development in general. In addition, we spoke in detail about Flutterwave’s comprehensive service offering and their simple onboarding process.

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Africa Series with Stacey Japhta: Currency trading solutions for frontier markets with CEO and co-founder of AZA Finance, Elizabeth Rossiello

Nairobi
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In this episode of the Africa Series, Stacey Japhta, VP Growth at TalentintheCloud, interviews Elizabeth Rossiello. Elizabeth discusses all things FinTech, a fitting formula for acquisition, and why Boards push back on crypto.

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Africa Series with Stacey Japhta: Improving financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending

Cape Town, South Africa
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In this episode of Africa Series, Stacey Japhta spoke to Tim Nuy, founder and CEO at Finclusion Group and Matsi Modise, its Non-Executive Chair about how to improve financial inclusion through using alternative credit score data, Finclusion's mission, Matsi's governance experience and more!

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Africa Series with Stacey Japhta: Personalizing customer service with Aneesa Ameer, Head of Innovation at ABSA Life

Gauteng, South Africa
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In this episode of the Africa Series, Stacey Japhta spoke to Aneesa Ameer, Head of Innovation at ABSA Life in South Africa. Aneesa discussed all things FinTech, personalizing customer service and encouraging your kids to think outside the box.

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Voice of FinTech Africa Series with Patrick Awori: Building trust infrastructure for underserved SMBs in Africa with Hilda Moraa from Pezesha

Nairobi, Kenya
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In this episode of the Africa Series, Patrick Awori spoke to Hilda Moraa, founder and CEO of Pezesha; a Kenyan headquartered digital financial marketplace platform that connects quality SMB to working capital from investors on its marketplace. Hilda is a trailblazer in the Kenyan and African FinTech space. From founding and exiting her Fintech startup in 2015, Weza Tele, she has done it all, rising to both national and international acclaim.

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Africa Series with Stacey Japhta: Building digital businesses with Basalt

Johannesburg, South Africa
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In this episode of Africa Series, hosted by Stacey Japhta, Stacey speaks to Wayne Zwiers, founder of Basalt. Basalt is a global Fintech studio focusing on designing and developing digital banking and insurance solutions for the future, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. They discuss all things FinTech, important attributes to look for in your leadership team, and the difference between the traditional model and the new model of VCs in Africa.

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Africa Series with Adejoke Adekunle: Early Stage Investment and Fundraising with Tobi Oke of V8 Capital Partners

Lagos, Nigeria
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In this episode, Adejoke Adekunle discusses capital access and technology investments for start-ups in Africa, what it takes to raise funds in today’s tech ecosystem and the intersection of FinTech across sectors and more with Tobi Oke, Managing Partner at V8 Capital Partners, both based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Africa Series with Adejoke Adekunle: Infibranches' vision to close the financial and energy access gap in Africa

Lagos, Nigeria
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In this episode of Africa Series with Adejoke Adekunle, Adejoke speaks to the CEO of Infibranches Technologies, Olusola Owoyemi, based in Nigeria, about what it takes to solve Africa’s last-mile problems, the misconceptions about rural communities and how Infibranches Technologies is using access to financial services as a lever to close the gap on everything else.

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Africa Series with Stacey Japhta: Empowering emerging market entrepreneurs

Zurich, Switzerland
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In this episode, Stacey Japhta chats with Buhle Goslar, CEO Africa of Jumo. They discuss building units from the ground up, the reason we're not seeing the full benefits of financial inclusion in South Africa & moving away from pay secrecy.

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Africa Series with Adejoke Adekunle: Hello Tractor - Power (tractors) to the people (farmers)! Pay-as-you-go financing with Mastercard

Lagos, Nigeria
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In this episode, we discuss farm mechanization in Africa, how Mastercard accelerates the Hello Tractor vision to close the mechanization gap in Africa and how the company uses data and IoT technology to enhance tractor financing.

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