Podcast

🎙 F-Squared Podcast #14 - Wiza Jalakasi - The Accidental Fintech Career

From a failed start-up to the "6M Users" Reality Check while at Chipper, and Solving Global Payments for Africa at Ebanx

Oct 23 •

🎙 F-Squared Podcast #13 - My Mom Told Me to Quit My Job, So I Decided to Build a Bank in Ghana

A conversation with Tarek Mouganie of Affinity Africa on leaving a top hedge fund, building a full-stack digital bank from scratch, and why a hybrid…

Oct 2 •

🎙 F-Squared Podcast #13 - The Moment Playbook: Multichoice’s Pan-African Fintech Play

An analysis of how MultiChoice turned an internal operational challenge into a new enterprise fintech, with insights from Moment CEO Joel Yarbrough.

Sep 19 •

🎙 F-Squared Podcast #12-The Untold Story of M-Pesa: How it was really built!

A deep dive with Catherine Karimi Gichunge, one of the first members of the original M-Pesa team, on the grit, strategy, and on-the-ground hustle that…

Sep 5 •

🎙 F-Squared Podcast #11- "It Shouldn't Matter if Your Money is Going a Mile or 10,000 Miles": The Blueprint for a Financial Network as…

A conversation with Sling Money's Mike Hudack on why we'll soon stop saying 'cross-border payments', just like we stopped saying 'long-distance calls'.

Aug 22 •

🎙 F-Squared Podcast #10 - That's Not a Lending Model, That's Charity": The Unvarnished Truth About Building a Credit Fintech in Africa

From Red Flags to Term Sheets: A Practical Playbook of Do's and Don'ts for Fintech Lending Founders in Africa.

Aug 7 •

🎙 F-Squared Podcast #9 - Building an SME Neobank for Africa with Zazu CEO Rinse Jacobs

Why the future of SME banking isn't a better account, but a unified financial platform.

Jul 24 •

🎙 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 •

🎙 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 •

🎙 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 •

F-Squared Podcast #5 - Inside Zone: Building Africa’s First Regulated Blockchain for Payments

A grounded conversation on rebuilding payment infrastructure without the crypto hype.

May 29 •

F-Squared Podcast Episode # 4 - Stablecoin Hype Curve, Operator Checklist

What excites investors and entrepreneurs in today's Stablecoin environment and why thoughtful builders still focus on licences, float, and corridor…

May 15 •

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