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Frontier Fintech is a podcast about the business of fintech in Africa. We speak with founders, executives, investors, and regulators who are shaping financial services across the continent—helping you connect the dots in Pan-African fintech.
Frontier Fintech hosts F-Squared Podcast, a technology show with 27 episodes published.
In 2009, Tayo Oviosu printed a 300-page regulatory application, packed it into a suitcase, and carried it to Abuja because Nigeria had no framework for mobile payments and someone had to ask the Central Bank to write one
African traders earn in Europe and pay in China. Stablecoins are finally solving that triangular liquidity gap — and reshaping how Africa-Asia trade finance works. April Long spent thirteen years inside corridor banking
Africa's mobile money networks have over 800 million registered accounts spread across dozens of closed loops. Moving money between them; across borders, currencies, and regulatory jurisdictions, remains the unfinished i
Valr is Africa's largest crypto exchange by volume, but the business has evolved well beyond exchange. Under founder Farzam Ehsani, Valr now provides modular on-chain financial infrastructure that banks and telcos plug i
Banks have spent decades building the infrastructure that makes money move. Now, a new set of rails; blockchain, stablecoins, tokenized assets, is being laid alongside those systems. The question isn't whether banks will
For an operator moving millions across borders, Stone Atwine has come to understand where there’s real value to be created and where hype dominates. For him, having built his Fintech chops in a Mobile Money region, the v
Why does it take five days and $30 to move money from Mexico to the US, or Nigeria to China? In a world of instant communication, the "black hole" of correspondent banking is still swallowing billions in fees and lost ti
Why does Nigeria have 120 million people with digital identities but only 70 million with bank accounts? Despite a decade of growth, the "last mile" of financial inclusion remains a stubborn red ocean. Samora Kariuki sit
Insurance penetration in Kenya has hovered at 2% for decades. Why? Because the industry tries to sell annual policies to people who earn daily wages. It’s a relevance problem, not a demand problem. Bente Krogman didn't s
Most banks and fintechs misunderstand the problem at the last mile. They build "Supply Chain Finance" to fund invoices, assuming the sale has happened. But Fred Njogu explains that the real problem is the lost sale: the
Why do 30% of transactions in South Africa fail? And more importantly, why do merchants often get nothing but a generic error message when it happens? Jonatan Allback, CEO of Njiapay, joins Samora Kariuki to deconstruct
How do you build a lending business for a market traditional banks ignore? You don't start with a banking charter. You start with a catalog. Sean Wibberley, CEO of Weaver Fintech, joins Samora Kariuki to share the incred
How do you build an "accidental" career in fintech? Wiza Jalakasi, famously known as "the African fintech guy" and now Director of African Expansion at Ebanx, joins Samora Kariuki to trace his remarkable journey. It's a
He resigned from one of the world's largest hedge funds after his mom said he'd changed. Tarek Mouganie’s journey is anything but conventional, taking him from a PhD in material science to the trading floors of London, a
He resigned from one of the world's largest hedge funds after his mom said he'd changed. Tarek Mouganie’s journey is anything but conventional, taking him from a PhD in material science to the trading floors of London, a
In this episode, Samora Kariuki sits down with Joel Yarbrough, CEO of Moment, for a deep dive into the strategy and technology behind one of Africa's most ambitious new fintech ventures. The story of a pan-African fintec
In this episode, Samora Kariuki sits down with Catherine Karimi Gichunge, a member of the original M-Pesa team, for a deep dive into the untold story of how Africa's most iconic fintech was really built. The M-Pesa story
What if sending money across the world was as simple, free, and instant as making a phone call? In this episode, Samora Kariuki sits down with Mike Hudack, CEO of Sling, to discuss how his company is using stablecoins an
What does it really take to build a lending business that can attract millions in institutional debt in Africa? In this episode, Samora Kariuki sits down with credit experts AJ Davidson (Sixpoint Capital) and Aum Thacker
What does it take to build a digital bank that truly solves the problems of small businesses in Africa? In this episode, Samora Kariuki sits down with Rinse Jacobs, CEO of Zazu, a neobank moving beyond the account and ca
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