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119 - The Crypto Compatibility Problem
Kenya's digital assets industry has the regulations, the licences, and the roadmap. What it lacks is a language that central banks and compliance…
May 4
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Samora Kariuki
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🎙 F-Squared Podcast #25 - Africa Doesn’t Have a Dollar Problem. It Has a Plumbing Problem | April Long
On corridor banking, triangular trade flows, and what stablecoins actually change — with April Long
Apr 30
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Samora Kariuki
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Frontier Fintech GPS# 70- April 29th 2026
OPay hits US$ 3.1 billion valuation, CBK hires for Virtual Assets department, Safaricom MyOneApp continues to scale and other stories that matter.
Apr 29
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Samora Kariuki
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Frontier Fintech GPS# 59 - February 4th 2026
Feb 4
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#17 Core Banking Platforms
May 24, 2021
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Samora Kariuki
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#34 Will we be Wave-ing Goodbye to Telco Led Mobile Money?
Sep 20, 2021
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Samora Kariuki
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#48 Embedded B2B Vendor Lending in Africa - Can it Scale?
Mar 7, 2022
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Samora Kariuki
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#31 First we must build Infrastructure
Aug 30, 2021
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Samora Kariuki
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#44 B2B Payment Operations
Nov 29, 2021
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Samora Kariuki
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#118 - MyOneApp and the Edsel Problem
Ford’s most famous failure and what it tells us about managerialism, tech ambition, and Safaricom’s FinTech 2.0 moment
Apr 27
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Samora Kariuki
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Frontier Fintech GPS# 69- April 22nd 2026
CBN and NCC sign MOU to combat fraud, South Africa relaxes capital controls, MTN and Airtel Nigeria suspend Airtime lending and other stories that…
Apr 22
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Samora Kariuki
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#117 - Payments Follow Trade
Why building modern cross-border payments infrastructure for Africa means building it with Asia at the centre. A Partner Piece with Waka formerly Pyxis
Apr 20
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Samora Kariuki
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🎙 F-Squared Podcast #24 - Building the Rails for African Trade: Inside Onafriq | Dare Okoudjou
On bilateral agreements, the fax machine problem, and why mobile money has five to ten years to define its own standard before Visa does it instead.
Apr 16
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Samora Kariuki
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Frontier Fintech GPS# 68- April 15th 2026
Capitec onboards to Wise Platform, Valr and Onafriq partner to power Crypto adoption, CBN enforces agent exclusivity rules and other stories that matter
Apr 15
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Samora Kariuki
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#116 - Cheaper, Faster, More Reliable
Remittances, like supermarkets and airlines before them, will be won by operators with the discipline to invest in infrastructure nobody sees — not by…
Apr 13
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Samora Kariuki
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Frontier Fintech GPS# 67- April 8th 2026
Fluttewave goes into banking, Lucky raises US$ 23 million Series B, Vodacom Tanzania completes platform and other stories that matter.
Apr 8
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Samora Kariuki
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🎙 F-Squared Podcast #23 - Building The Infrastructure That Puts You in Control of Your Money | Farzam Ehsani, Valr
Farzam Ehsani on Valr, the Bahá'í prophecy that shaped his conviction, and why the exchange was just the starting point
Apr 2
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Samora Kariuki
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🎙 F-Squared Podcast #25 - Africa Doesn’t Have a Dollar Problem. It Has a Plumbing Problem | April Long
On corridor banking, triangular trade flows, and what stablecoins actually change — with April Long
Apr 30
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Samora Kariuki
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🎙 F-Squared Podcast #24 - Building the Rails for African Trade: Inside Onafriq | Dare Okoudjou
On bilateral agreements, the fax machine problem, and why mobile money has five to ten years to define its own standard before Visa does it instead.
Apr 16
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Samora Kariuki
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🎙 F-Squared Podcast #23 - Building The Infrastructure That Puts You in Control of Your Money | Farzam Ehsani, Valr
Farzam Ehsani on Valr, the Bahá'í prophecy that shaped his conviction, and why the exchange was just the starting point
Apr 2
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Samora Kariuki
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🎙 F-Squared Podcast #22 - Inside the Bank Building Africa’s First Regulated Digital Asset Stack | ABSA's Digital Assets Team
Understanding Absa's Custody journey and how compliance became the ally, and tech became the bottleneck.
Mar 19
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Samora Kariuki
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Frontier Fintech GPS# 70- April 29th 2026
OPay hits US$ 3.1 billion valuation, CBK hires for Virtual Assets department, Safaricom MyOneApp continues to scale and other stories that matter.
Apr 29
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Samora Kariuki
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Frontier Fintech GPS# 69- April 22nd 2026
CBN and NCC sign MOU to combat fraud, South Africa relaxes capital controls, MTN and Airtel Nigeria suspend Airtime lending and other stories that…
Apr 22
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Samora Kariuki
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Frontier Fintech GPS# 68- April 15th 2026
Capitec onboards to Wise Platform, Valr and Onafriq partner to power Crypto adoption, CBN enforces agent exclusivity rules and other stories that matter
Apr 15
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Samora Kariuki
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Frontier Fintech GPS# 67- April 8th 2026
Fluttewave goes into banking, Lucky raises US$ 23 million Series B, Vodacom Tanzania completes platform and other stories that matter.
Apr 8
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Samora Kariuki
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#112 - The Bank That Cannot Learn
How legacy architecture turns AI from a compounding advantage into an expensive ornament
Mar 2
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Samora Kariuki
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#108 - The Cobra Effect: The Self-Inflicted Disruption of Nigerian Banking
How a decade of gaslighting and lobbying cleared the field for Moniepoint and OPay.
Feb 2
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Samora Kariuki
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#105 - The Great Decoupling: Bridging the Gap Between South Africa’s Two Economies
From Shoprite to Lesaka: How retailers and aggregators are building the financial infrastructure the formal sector left behind.
Dec 1, 2025
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Samora Kariuki
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#104 - 10 Years of Construction: The Bull Case for African Bank Branches
While the West retreats to the cloud, African banks must conquer the street. Our new Index reveals why the next decade belongs to the builders, not just…
Nov 24, 2025
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Samora Kariuki
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