Podcast episodes
EP15: The Business of Payments - recorded live at Africa Tech Summit London
The Business Of Payments episode was recorded live at Africa Tech Summit London 2023 at London Stock Exchange featuring insights and views from payments leaders across Africa. Moderated by Nkiruka Uwaje Founder at Grovvth Advisory, the coversation features;Solomon Amadi – VP Processing Infrastructure at Moniepoint Inc, Elizabeth Rossiello – CEO at AZA FinanceGbenga Ajayi – Partner at QED InvestorsChris Folayan – Head of Global Expansion at Interswitch Africa Tech Summit Connects podcast shares insights from across the African tech scene. Subscribe for updates and join us in Ghana, Nairobi and London! More details on Africatechsummit.com.
EP14: Digital identity - powering open finance across Africa with Esigie Aguele, CEO of VerifyMe
Africa Tech Summit Connects podcast shares insights from across the African tech scene. Subscribe for updates and join us at the fourth Africa Tech Summit Nairobi Feb 23-24th, 2022 or Africa Tech Summit London, September 2022Featuring: Esigie Aguele Co-founder /CEO of VerifyMe Nigeria and Andrew Fassnidge, Founder of Africa Tech Summit, this episode explores the trust infrastructure and how digital identity and verification services are supporting open finance and ecommerce in Africa.Aguele also shares insights on the challenge of attracting and retaining tech talent and the impact this is having on innovation, as well future as the trends to look out for this year with DeFi and tokenisation.
EP13: Payments in Africa - Deep dive into the fintech landscape with Akshay Grover CEO of Cellulant
Africa Tech Summit Connects podcast shares insights from across the African tech scene. Subscribe for updates and join us at the fourth Africa Tech Summit Nairobi Feb 23-24th, 2022 or Africa Tech Summit London, September 2022 www.africatechsummit.comFeaturing: Akshay Grover, CEO of Cellulant and Andrew Fassnidge, Founder of Africa Tech Summit, this episode deep dives into the digitisation of payments and fintech landscape in Africa. Akshay shares insights on cross border trade, the growth of SMB’s and building products to service demand in predominantly cash economies with over 70-85% of trade still done with cash. The episode also shares insights on new growth markets, and products including buy now pay later (BNPL), credit, crypto and DeFi.https://www.africatechsummit.com/nairobi/
EP12: Crypto in Africa - CBDC's, DeFi & fintech regulation with Carmelle Cadet, CEO of EMTECH
Africa Tech Summit Connects podcast shares insights from across the African tech scene. Subscribe for updates and join us at the fourth Africa Tech Summit Nairobi Feb 23-24th, 2022 or Africa Tech Summit London, September 2022 - www.africatechsummit.com.Featuring: Carmelle Cadet, CEO and Founder of EMTECH and Andrew Fassnidge, Founder of Africa Tech Summit, this episode unpacks the growth of digital currencies and crypto in Africa, sharing insights on central bank digital currencies (CBDC's), the growth of crypto, stable coins and DeFi in Africa,For more content and updates on upcoming Africa Tech Summits visit www.africatechsummit.com
EP11: Twitter in Africa - empowering free speech and combating misinformation across the continent
Africa Tech Summit Connects podcast shares insights from across the African tech scene. Subscribe for updates and join us at the fourth Africa Tech Summit Nairobi Feb 23-24th, 2022 or Africa Tech Summit London, September 2022 - www.africatechsummit.comRecorded live at Africa Tech Summit Connects, Emmanuel Lubanzadio, Head of Public Policy for Sub-Saharan Africa at Twitter shares insights with Andrew Fassnidge, Founder of Africa Tech Summit. The podcast unpacks how the leading social media channel is helping to drive digital literacy across the continent, supporting free speech against a backdrop of government internet blackouts and widespread misinformation. For more content and updates on upcoming Africa Tech Summits visit www.africatechsummit.com