F-Squared Podcast

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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.</p><p>Bente...

<p>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...

<p>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?</p><p>Jonatan Allback, CEO of Njiapay, joins Samora Kariuki to...

<p>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.</p><p>Sean Wibberley, CEO of Weaver Fintech, joins Samora Kariuki to share...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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...

<p>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.</p><p>The story of a...

<p>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.</p><p>The...