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

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

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

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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Bridging fiat and crypto and improving your payments experience with Petr Kozyakov, CEO of Mercuryo

Petr Kozyakov, co-founder and CEO of Mercuryo spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast about bridging traditional Finance (fiat currency) and crypto to enable users to switch seamlessly between fiat and crypto and improve the payments experience.

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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

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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Asia Pacific Series with Angela Conroy: How to use your credit card even if you can't? Ask CardUp

Nicki Ramsey, founder and CEO of CardUp, based in Singapore, talks to Angela Conroy, co-founder and CEO of Notarum, about the joys and challenges of becoming an entrepreneur after a corporate career in American Express. CardUp is a credit card enablement platform that enables using a credit card in places where cards are not accepted today.

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Africa Series with Stacey Japhta: Empowering emerging market entrepreneurs

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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Keeping you safe in the online world with Entersekt

A discussion with Christian Ali, SVP Product at Entersekt, a global authentication solutions company, an original FinTech, whose solutions are used by banks and other clients around the world. We talk about keeping payments and e-commerce secure in times of massive volume increases and more frequent cyber attacks. Keep safe!

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Voice of FinTech: Live Speaker Series - Ask us anything about FinTech, AI, VC investing in APAC, the US and LatAm

In this live virtual event, we talked to the Voice of FinTech hosts based in APAC, Angela Conroy and Chia Jeng Yang 谢征阳 and Americas, Clementina Giraldo and David Yakobovitch, respectively, about FinTech (or RegTech), AI, VC investing in APAC, the US and LatAm. Listen to find out which are the hottest FinTech verticals and trends around the world!

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LendIt FinTech USA Preview with Plaid, Mouro Capital (ex Santander InnoVentures) and OakNorth

Ahead of LendIt FinTech USA, we talk to representatives of companies participating in this virtual event: Keith Grose, Head of UK and International at Plaid, Jillian Cohn, Partner at Mouro Capital (formerly Santander Innoventures), and Sean Hunter, CIO of OakNorth, about Plaid's international expansion plans, the rationale for spin-off Santander Innoventures and re-branding as Mouro Capital, why OakNorth licenses its proprietary technology to other banks, respectively, and much more! The link to register and discount code for Voice of FinTech listeners inside the notes on the next page.

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Founder story: Pivoting to Scale with Rapyd and guest co-host Adelle Grisaffe from RFi Group's Global Digital Banker podcast

In this bonus episode, together with Adelle Grisaffe as a guest co-host, we interview Sarel Tal, VP EMEA from Rapyd, London based, FinTech-as-a-Service platform. Rapyd provides APIs that help integrate local payments and FinTech capabilities. Adelle is London based Australian, producer and host of RFi Group's (Retail Finance Intelligence) podcast Global Digital Banker. We talk about pivoting from B2C to B2B to accelerate scaling up, Rapyd's unfair advantage vs. competitors and the state of Open Banking in Europe. We also cover short and long term threats and opportunities coming of the current health crisis for start-ups and FinTechs in particular.

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Tomorrow: Founder story - Pivoting to Scale with Rapyd and guest co-host Adelle Grisaffe from RFi Group's Global Digital Banker podcast

In this bonus episode, together with Adelle Grisaffe as a guest co-host, we interview Sarel Tal, VP EMEA from Rapyd, London based, FinTech-as-a-Service platform. Rapyd provides APIs that help integrate local payments and FinTech capabilities. Adelle is London based Australian, producer and host of RFi (Retail Finance Intelligence) podcast Global Digital Banker. We talk about pivoting from B2V to B2B to accelerate scaling up, Rapyd's unfair advantage vs. competitors and the state of Open Banking in Europe. We also cover short and long term threats and opportunities coming of the current health crisis for start-ups and FinTechs in particular.

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Finovate Berlin

In this episode, we speak to Greg Palmer, VP at Finovate, based in San Francisco, a leader in FinTech conferences around the world about the Berlin edition that took place in February. Also, we talk about Finovate's concept that varies across the globe and plans for San Francisco, New York and Asian editions, updated for the current situation around the COVID-19. We then speak to Myles Stephenson, CEO of Modulr, London based, integrated payment service for businesses about Copernican Leap in banking, direct connectivity of FinTechs to Bank of England and Modulr's growth plans.

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Silkpay - Founder story: Chinese mobile payment acceptance solutions (Alipay and WeChat Pay) for European merchants

An interview with Annie Guo, CEO and founder of Silkpay. Annie talks about her passion for running her own company and how Silkpay connects European merchants and Chinese tourists using Alipay and WeChat Pay so they can pay in Europe just like they are used to at home.

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Monito - Founder story: Stop overpaying when sending money abroad!

An interview with Francois Briod, CEO & co-founder of Monito, a comparison website for foreign exchange services. He explains how he and his co-founders became frustrated with excessive foreign exchange fees and rates and launched a company that compares rates (including all the fees) among banks and money transfer FinTechs and shows you the best deal!

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