F-Squared Podcast
by Frontier Fintech
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Why Good People End Up in the Wrong Roles | David Plummer
Why Good People End Up in the Wrong Roles | David Plummer
About this podcast
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.
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- Why Good People End Up in the Wrong Roles | David Plummer · 1 h 36 minA leader’s previous success leaves a difficult question unanswered: can they deliver in the conditions your business actually faces? David Plummer, co-founder of Triage and…
- Why Businesses Still Want a Human Behind Their Payments | Lumepay · 1 h 3 minWhen a supplier is waiting and a payment is stuck, a business owner needs a clear answer and someone who can help. Luc Varejes, COO at Lumepay, explains how human support…
- Absa’s Next Chapter: Eric Muriuki on AI and Pan-African Banking | Eric Muriuki · 1 h 15 minAbsa's Pan-African ambition raises a question about where the bank's next ideas, products and leaders will come from. After nineteen years at NCBA, Eric Muriuki, Absa's Managing…
- Why M-Pesa's Next Act Is About More Than Payments - With Epimack Mbeteni · 47 minM-Pesa built mobile money's distribution advantage, but Vodacom's next growth phase depends on far more than cash-in and cash-out. Epimack Mbeteni, Chief Commercial Officer of…
- KSh25 Billion a Month: Kenya’s New Digital Credit Frontier, with Kevin Mutiso · 1 h 13 minKenya has broad financial access and a rapidly expanding digital-credit market, yet only a small minority of adults are financially healthy. Kevin Mutiso, Chairman of the Digital…
- Paga's Tayo Oviosu: Why You Can't Bank a Billion People by Building a Bank · 1 h 2 minIn 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…
- Africa Doesn't Have a Dollar Problem. It Has a Plumbing Problem. · 1 h 0 minAfrican 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…
- Building the Rails for African Trade: Inside Onafriq | Dare Okoudjou · 1 h 20 minAfrica's mobile money networks have over 800 million registered accounts spread across dozens of closed loops. Moving money between them; across borders, currencies, and…
- Building Infrastructure That Puts You in Control of Your Money | Farzam Ehsani, Valr · 59 minValr 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…
- Inside the Bank Building Africa's First Regulated Digital Asset Stack | ABSA CIB · 54 minBanks 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…
- The Operating System for Stablecoins: Beyond the Crypto Hype | Stone Atwine · 1 h 5 minFor 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…
- The "Stablecoin Sandwich": How Conduit Fixes Cross-Border Payments · 54 minWhy 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…
- The Evolution of Nigerian Fintech: Scale, Scars, and Strategy | Olu Akanmu · 1 h 13 minWhy 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…
- From Car Wash to Exit: How Bente Krogman Built mTek (Acquired by Bolttech) · 1 h 15 minInsurance 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…
- The "Supply Chain Finance" Myth: Why Retailers Really Need Capital | Fred Njogu · 1 h 9 minMost 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…
- The "Black Hole" of African Payments: Why One PSP is Never Enough | Jonatan Allback · 1 h 7 minWhy 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…
- Weaver Fintech - The Former Catalog Retailer's 8x Fintech Flywheel | Sean Wibberley · 57 minHow 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…
- The Accidental Fintech Career: From Malawi to Scaling Chipper Cash & Ebanx | Wiza Jalakasi · 1 h 13 minHow 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…
- He Resigned After His Mom Said He’d Changed — Building Africa’s Next Fintech Giant. · 1 h 36 minHe 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…
- The Moment Playbook: Building a Pan-African Fintech with MultiChoice | Joel Yarbrough · 60 minIn 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…
