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Matt Flannery & Premal Shah
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Global Fintech with Matt & Premal
The beginning days of Kiva
Matt and Premal first met one another through a shared passion for microfinance and co-founded kiva.org in 2005. In this special episode, they take a look back to hear from many of the staff who helped to launch, sustain, and scale Kiva in the early days and years. Thank you to everyone who played a role in getting Kiva off the ground. Thanks also to those from the early days who weren’t able to participate in this episode. And sincere gratitude to all the Kiva lenders around the world who continue to make Kiva possible. For those of you wh...
2021-06-30
45 min
Global Fintech with Matt & Premal
Kuda helps lead the way with neobanking in Nigeria
Babs is the co-founder and CEO of Kuda. Babs and his team are pioneering the expansion of financial inclusion, and the concept of neobanking in Nigeria. The Kuda Andriod app has been downloaded over 1 million times. A few years ago, Babs and a small team of people determined to transform banking launched a savings app for Nigerians. That app was the first step toward Kuda. Today, Kuda is even more determined and they’ve built a Central Bank-licensed, microfinance bank to help Nigerians get the best out of their money without overcharging them. Kuda includes tools for tracking spending habits, sa...
2021-03-09
22 min
Global Fintech with Matt & Premal
Shipping daily is part of the culture at Wallets.Africa
John Oke is the Founder and CEO of Wallets Africa. Wallets.Africa is based in Nigeria and helps Africans and African owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts. After working in the digital financial services sector for about a decade, the founding team came to the realization that customers' main gripes with traditional financial institutions always boiled down to poor customer service, accessibility, and unreasonable fees. The team looked at these problems and saw a future where people and businesses can make their bank app a key part of their daily life not...
2021-03-05
26 min
Global Fintech with Matt & Premal
Global Fintech with Matt & Premal: Shola Akinlade - Episode 1
Matt and Premal discuss Fintech with Shola Akinlade. Shola Akinlade is the CEO and Co-founder of Paystack, which was recently purchased by https://stripe.com/ (Stripe) for over $200 million in October. Paystack is a technology company solving payments problems for ambitious businesses. Their mission is to help businesses in Africa become profitable, envied, and loved. They are breaking all barriers so that African businesses can quickly and easily accept payments from anyone, anywhere. In this episode, Shola talks about what it takes to scale successfully. In September of 2020, Paystack did about 15 million transactions in one month, and in order...
2021-01-13
15 min
Global Fintech with Matt & Premal
Global Fintech with Matt & Premal: Odunayo Eweniyi - Episode 5
Odunayo Eweniyi is the Co-founder and COO of PiggyVest - a pioneering savings and investment app in Nigeria. https://www.youtube.com/redirect?redir_token=QUFFLUhqbllWQU1ZRnlNWEc2ZGMyb25rYzVOcU5oVFZ2Z3xBQ3Jtc0ttWkpiMk45M1d4WnFyRjNWZlV3N3JxaER6a2I4QVVFM1JnUnlkcUxWZEM4Y29ucFQwT0gwVVFVRllYQ1dnSmZkX0RPVGFKRlNsQ0ZPaUVicFdhRWxnWEFUU2xSSmJldFI3VDRCLVY5bDNLOGVtbm54dw%3D%3D&v=qVUlUlcw1Xo&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.piggyvest.com%2F&event=video_description (https://www.piggyvest.com/) PiggyVest is the first online “Savings & Investment” app in all of West Africa. They first launched as “Piggybank.ng” on the 7th of January...
2020-12-18
21 min
Global Fintech with Matt & Premal
Global Fintech with Matt & Premal: Jonny Price - Episode 4
Jonny Price is originally from the UK, where he started his career in strategy consulting with Oliver Wyman. In 2011, he joined Kiva.org as the Founder of its U.S. lending division, leading that team for seven years. In early 2018, he joined Wefunder as Director of Business Development. His primary role is recruiting great companies that are excited to use crowdfunding to raise capital and gain customers. He serves on the Federal Reserve Board's Community Advisory Council, and has a degree in History from the University of Cambridge.
2020-11-13
31 min
Global Fintech with Matt & Premal
Global Fintech with Matt & Premal: Maria Rotilu - Episode 3
Maria Rotilu is a former Management Consultant at Deloitte who transitioned into helping technology startups scale in Sub-Saharan Africa. She did this in leadership positions at Uber as the Country Manager and as General Manager, West Africa at Branch.co. Maria is currently the Managing Director at Oxford Seed Fund. Maria loves to help technology businesses reach global scale through her rich experience as a venture builder and also through her work at the Oxford Seed Fund - a team of select international team of entrepreneurs, investors, and industry specialists. The OSF invests up to £50,000 in the top Oxford-affiliated startups a...
2020-11-09
26 min
Global Fintech with Matt & Premal
Global Fintech with Matt & Premal: Sheel Mohnot - Episode 2
Sheel Mohnot helps to design, build, and improve human ecosystems through technology, as a creator or an investor/partner. Sheel's been quoted in a number of publications, including the New York Times, New Yorker, Reuters, WSJ, Venturebeat, Forbes, Inc, Crains, HuffPo, and India Abroad. He's interested in technology businesses that disrupt financial institutions or enable them to act more efficiently. He has a soft spot for companies that help those who feel abandoned by the current financial system but invests across the Fintech/Insuretech/Real Estate tech spectrum. Sheel has had 2 successful Fintech exits of his own and has...
2020-11-03
28 min