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🎙 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.
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Samora Kariuki
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.
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Samora Kariuki
#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.
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Samora Kariuki
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
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Samora Kariuki

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…
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Samora Kariuki
🎙 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
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Samora Kariuki
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.
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Samora Kariuki
#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.
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Samora Kariuki
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.
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Samora Kariuki
🎙 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.
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Samora Kariuki
#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.
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Samora Kariuki
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…
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Samora Kariuki
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