Archive - Frontier Fintech Newsletter

🎙 F-Squared Podcast #8 – Ola Oyetayo on Cross-Border Payments in Africa

What it really takes to move money across borders and why stablecoins aren’t a silver bullet.

Jul 10 •

Frontier Fintech GPS# 39 - July 9th 2025

Nigerian banks resume international card transactions, LemFi expands to Egypt, Stanbic launches a US$ 100m fund and other stories that matter.

Jul 9 •

#89 - Mercado Pago and Embedded Finance: Charting the Next Era of Digital Lending

What Latin America’s market leader reveals about Africa’s path to sustainable digital credit.

Jul 7 •

Frontier Fintech GPS# 38 - July 2nd 2025

Tymebank's issues with Home Affairs, M-Pesa experiences sustained market share decline, Wave raises US$ 137 million and other stories that matter

Jul 2 •

June 2025

#88 - Winners and Losers in the New Core Banking Order

A strategic breakdown of how banking is being restructured, the bifurcation of financial services and why core banking vendor economics will never be…

Jun 30 •

🎙 F-Squared Podcast #7 – Kamal Budhabhatti on Voice, AI, and the Future of Digital Banking

From Craft Silicon to Little: How One Engineer is Rewiring Africa’s Fintech Infrastructure

Jun 26 •

Frontier Fintech GPS# 37 - June 25th 2025

CBK increases clearing hours for RTGS, Chpter partners with Flutterwave, Flutterwave secures Cameroon PSP license and many other stories that matter.

Jun 25 •

#87 - All Aboard the Stablecoin Hype Train

Stablecoins will matter, but only where the need is clear and distribution is taken care of. They won’t matter where they are marginal improvements.

Jun 23 •

Frontier Fintech GPS# 36 - June 18th 2025

Lemfi Acquires Pillar, Moove moves towards unicorn status, JP Morgan fuels Stablecoin rush and other stories that matter.

Jun 18 •

🎙 F-Squared Podcast #6 – From M-Shwari to Loop: Eric Muriuki on Building Fintech Infrastructure at Scale

A grounded conversation on scaling digital credit, platform-thinking, and Kenya’s fintech evolution.

Jun 12 •

#86 - Open Banking in 2025 - Game Changer or Boring Pipes

A sober analysis of Open Banking's outcomes, what it means for the broader industry and why Fintechs shouldn't index too much on it.

Jun 9 •

Frontier Fintech GPS# 35 - June 4th 2025

Moniepoint finally acquires Kenyan MFB, South African Court creates new headaches for Crypto Regulators, Fincra secures Tanzanian PSP license and other…

Jun 4 •

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