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Open Africa Podcast

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1 year

Reminder: The reason you can’t use your NGN card for FX transactions is not because CBN banned them, it’s because the banks don’t have enough $ to settle your transactions. This “announcement” doesn’t make $ suddenly appear.

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10 months

What shall it profit a man to have high interest rate but no iOS app?

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10 months

Ilebaye, don't pick up the wrong call! Just saying...🤷🏽‍♀️

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Just in: Nigeria investment platform @Risevest rolls out "Managed by Rise"- full service US real estate investing starting at $50K. Users get outright ownership, property management & hands-off experience. Rise aims to open doors for Nigerians to own US property with ease.

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1 year

Exciting news! The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) just announced new guidelines for contactless payments. Let's unpack what this means for you.

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8 months

A Paystack Friendship - by The Fu'ad

A Paystack Friendship

Montages about dreaming, scenius, and lasting friendships.

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1 year

🏦💰 Ever wondered why transfers between two users in the same bank are super reliable? It's not magic, it's just banking! Let's dive into this fun little explainer with our friends Chidi and Ngozi. 🧵👇

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2 years

SEC license for Rise

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1 year

Transsion owns Tecno, Infinix and iTel. Transsion led PalmPay’s $40m seed. Palmpay also comes preinstalled on Transsion phones in 🇳🇬. 25m “users” is not so far fetched. As far as NIP activity is concerned, they’re top 5 so it tracks.

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4 months

Because you guys said fintech will buy a bank, they’ve increased price smh

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1 year

Is this…shade?

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5 months

LemFi hires ex OPay COO, Allen Qu to lead China expansion – TechFocus24

LemFi hires ex OPay COO, Allen Qu to lead China expansion

LemFi, a financial technology company building innovative international payment solutions, announced today that Allen Qu will lead the business’ expansion to China as Vice President of Growth. This...

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2 years

African payments giant Flutterwave vies to buy British fintech Railsr

Flutterwave and a consortium of existing Railsr shareholders are vying to buy the British company amid a tough environment for fintech funding, Sky News learns.

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11 months

Glovo and Shoprite enter a strategic partnership to offer home deliveries in Nigeria

In line with its vision to provide everyone with easy access to anything in their city, leading multi-category app, Glovo has entered into a strategic partnership with Nigerias largest supermarket...

africa.businessinsider.com

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Open Africa Podcast

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8 months

Everyone is building a “Pay with Transfer” solution for merchants, but what about us, civilians, who are tired of having to search bank list and type 10 digits every time. We have pains too

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1 year

Lemonade got an IMTO license in NG. Nice!

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11 months

This is a new one

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8 months

Says a lot that Moniepoint, despite investing in their earlier round, didn’t take this up.

Techpoint Africa

@TechpointAfrica

8 months

BREAKING: @bitmamaexchange has confirmed the acquisition of @ourpaydayHQ . The deal, which will see the integration of Payday's reported 300,000 users into @ChangeraApp , aims to enhance its stablecoins enabled cross-border payment solutions.

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1 year

Inside Chipper Cash’s Grueling Battle To Survive The Fintech Winter

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1 year

There’s ISW, Zone, Chams, and Etranzact. Paga, to a lesser degree. Alternatives exist, but there’s a reason most people don’t build that level of redundancy.

Papa Burrito

@bule_jr

1 year

Fintech today, Fintech tomorrow and nobody has been able to build an infrastructure system to rival NIBSS and provide redundancy?? All of you wanna build savings, investment and diaspora remittance apps only??

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1 year

@AkinwoleKunel @Abiola_Usman

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Open Africa Podcast

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10 months

By strengthening the judiciary. The rest will follow.

Big Tolz

@tolaadesanmi

10 months

How do you build credit infrastructure for a nation? 💭

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1 year

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1 year

Retail crypto is the mud. "Bundle Africa shuts down exchange service to focus on Cashlink"

Bundle Africa shuts down exchange service to focus on Cashlink

Effective September 2023, Bundle Africa's exchange service will cease to exist, the company says it will focus on its P2P platform Cashlink.

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2 years

PalmPay is doing QR cards like Wave did in Senegal

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10 months

Your CEO doing sponsored instagram posts? Time to turn on “Looking for Work” on LinkedIn because NGMI

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10 months

(Also, the interest is the 12m in small font at the bottom not the 72m in big font at the top)

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10 months

New Episode of the podcast for you to listen to this weekend!🫵🏾 We talked about ChipperCash's pivot, some industry raises, and the new kid on the block - Swap by Flutterwave. Listen here:

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10 months

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8 months

We saw your Spotify wrapped (if we were not in yours, do better🫵🏾) and just knew we had to give you a new Episode of the podcast! We talked about new CBN requirements, Interswitch, Crowdyvest, and some very interesting news that happened in November. Available everywhere, click

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1 year

Which provider bounced everybody?

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6 months

1. IMTOs were always limited to inbound per regulation. 2. You can still send outbound with your bank. 3. You can still receive wire transfers in FX.

Nairametrics

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6 months

CBN stops outbound international money transfer transactions, limits inflow payouts to Naira -

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1 year

📢 Let's talk about how bank transfers work in Nigeria! It's a system where banks communicate through a central hub called a switch. Imagine you're sending money from Bank A to Bank B. Bank A takes your money and tells the switch to pass the message to Bank B. 💸

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11 months

Experimenting with a community on Discord. It's like the podcast, but more real-time. Like this tweet for early access.

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9 months

Nigerian fintech, Kippa, shuts down payments product, to lay off workers - Nairametrics

Nigerian fintech, Kippa, shuts down payments product, to lay off workers

Fintech company, Kippa, is shutting down its offline payment product, KippaPay, a payment solution enabling users to send and receive

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10 months

Patricia begs customer to turn owed funds to company shares, saying "It's our last resort"

Patricia pleads with customers to turn its alleged ₦2bn debt to shares

"They said they are turning my money into shares, and I have no choice right now,” said Abraham Nelson, recounting his conversation with a representative of the crypto exchange.

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2 years

New Episode alert!🔊🔊🔊 We talk about Flutterwave, fraud in the ecosystem; how it happens, and the newest regulatory troubles! Listen here: Please like, retweet, and don't forget to tag us in your tweets! #openafricapodcast #podcastsinafrica

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9 months

They don't call it REST API for nothing

Ken Nwankwo

@keneshuku

9 months

Nothing wey person no go see for this ecosystem. An API that closes by 7pm API wey dey do 9-5 💀

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3 months

On stablecoins and cross-border payments | by Teju Adeyinka | May, 2024 | Medium

On stablecoins and cross-border payments

The hypothesis for stablecoins is simple: payments — the movement of financial value from one account to another — is broken in ways that…

tejuadeyinka.medium.com

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1 year

Hot Take: NG financial services needs to move from BVN to NIN.

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9 months

NIBSS needs to crash the cost of NIP to 0 and focus on building out Open Banking

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9 months

Once-hot Brazilian fintechs are losing market share to new competition from an unlikely source: Pix, a system created by the nation’s own central bank. @thatsleda has more

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1 year

🧵Bank deposits seem simple, right? You give the bank your money, they keep it safe, and you can get it back later. But there's a lot more to it. Let's dive into the world of bank deposits. 🏦💰

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1 year

Anyhoo, whether you agree or not, you should listen to our episode on Foreign Exchange, we explained in more details!

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9 months

Black Jaguar

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9 months

Today is another day to tell you that signups from Niger State, as a fintech, should make you cry. Yes, I am profiling!

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2 years

BREAKING: Nigeria's Kudi Changes Its Name To Nomba | Brand News Day Nigeria

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7 months

Insane intro to a paper

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8 months

Ok, let'd do this. What's a Correspondent Bank, Anyway? Think of a correspondent bank as a helpful buddy for banks, especially when they're in different countries. They're super handy for stuff like sending money overseas, sorting out transactions, and even tackling some of that

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8 months

A thread on correspondence banking today?

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9 months

Since TC won’t bring Radar back, we’ve decided to take matters into our hands and start a discord:

Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.

discord.com

Abubakar

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9 months

Way too often, I hear people talk about Radar by TechCabal and wish the niche tech forum could come back. I agree. Radar shut down at a time when Facebook and Twitter had firm control over one-to-many conversations, and users seemed less interested in another social product.

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10 months

Product Managers:

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2 months

Happy New Month everyone!😀 We have a new episode of the podcast just for you; we talk about some Fundraising news in the Ecosystem, the CBN’s new directive for BDCs, Google’s Umoja, and BlackCopper’s 2 billion naira debt. Listen here:

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4 months

👀👀👀

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10 months

Nigerian fintech PayDay is looking to sell the company six months after $3m raise

Exclusive: PayDay looks to sell six months after raising $3million

Months after raising $3 million, the Nigerian fintech PayDay is in talks and is hoping to conclude a sale of the company soon.

techcabal.com

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11 months

Our first episode since Twitter became X!💀 We talked about Moniepoint’s evolution and expansion, Bankly becoming a MFB, Chipper Cash’s Forbes interview, and what we collectively agree might just be a wave of “Fintech Fatigue” Listen listen🔗

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1 year

Fintech volumes are driven by fraud.

TechCabal is preparing for Moonshot👨🏾‍🚀

@TechCabal

1 year

Unpopular opinions about tech in Africa that would get you in this position?

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1 year

📢📢 In this brand new episode of the podcast, we set out to solve a mystery and explain why your Nigerian bank transfers failed these past few weeks. Listen here:

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Open Africa Podcast

@OpenAfricaPod

3 years

New Episode Alert feat. @nadayar of @ouredenlife ❗ We had an insightful conversation about Edenlife and the journey so far. Listen here: P.s: we apologize for this episode's quality, please bear with us. #openafricapodcast #podcastsinafrica

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10 months

New Episode Alert!💥 We know you think every new episode is funnier than the last but this one is definitely the most hilarious!🤭 Listen to us talk about Dash and how to raise money in the Nigerian capital market. P.s: we had a guest! 🔗

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1 year

Shege has arrived

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8 months

The lazy conclusion here is that the new guys drove them out. But, what if there isn't a big enough market to justify the investment? Maybe Jumia sees something that the others haven't quite seen yet. Is the ceiling, at best, a "lifestyle business"?

Open Africa Podcast

@OpenAfricaPod

8 months

Jumia Food to shutdown in Nigeria from December 2023

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1 year

We're live, people!🎙️ Listen to us recap some very interesting happenings in the industry this July, we talked about FX, Retail crypto, GTBank’s new rollout ('Laolu has very strong opinions about this🤭) and so much more! 🔗

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10 months

Exclusive: Risevest completes the acquisition of fintech Chaka

Months after conversations began between both companies, TechCabal can now confirm that fintech startup Risevest has fully acquired Chaka

techcabal.com

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1 month

This is something a company like Mono or SmileID should do

Layer - Instant onboarding for new customer accounts | Plaid

Bad onboarding kills conversion rates. Instantly onboard new customers from the Plaid Network with just a phone number. Learn about Layer.

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8 months

YC-backed fintech Bujeti raises $2M for its corporate cards and spend management platform | TechCrunch

YC-backed fintech Bujeti raises $2M for its corporate cards and spend management platform |...

Bujeti allows African businesses to issue cards at will to their employees, while maintaining the control of their spendings.

techcrunch.com

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28 days

Prospa has acquired Goodnews Microfinance Bank, rebranding it as Prospa Capital Microfinance Bank.

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1 year

BREAKING: CBN lifts cash deposit restriction on domiciliary accounts, allows $10k withdrawals daily - Nairametrics

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6 months

Need you to put out the word that we’re backkkk!🥳 In this new episode, we talk about some very interesting happenings in the cryptocurrency industry with Patricia, Coinbase and Yellow Card, alongside other general ecosystem news. Listen here:

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2 years

JUST IN: Bank of Ghana bans opening of new Dollar Accounts –

JUST IN: Bank of Ghana bans opening of new Dollar Accounts

The Bank of Ghana(BoG) has in a last-ditch desperate measure halted local banks from opening of new dollar accounts for customers without written express permission from the Central Bank.Banking...

ghananewsonline.com.gh

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10 months

This might be worse than the tokens. The tokens were, at least, debt. i.e. Patricia owed you money. Sure, they might not have paid but you could stand on something. Converting it to shares means if the company goes bust, you just charge it to the game and you can't fight

Open Africa Podcast

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10 months

Patricia begs customer to turn owed funds to company shares, saying "It's our last resort"

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1 year

We haven't done one of our explainer threads in a while so we're going to pick something interesting to talk about today: Invoice Financing! We've seen a couple startups raise money to build Invoice Financing startups so it feels apt. Let's dive in! 🏊‍♀️

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9 months

What a turnaround

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3 years

Welcome to Season 4!🎉🎉 In this new episode of the podcast, we had a guest on, to tell us more about Web3 and if we should be interested in it. You already know we had a blast recording this one😅 Please listen and share! Link:

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4 months

Big 3 of Nigerian Tech?

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11 months

Word on the streets is that you guys are using Open Africa Podcast learnings to hack interviews now. 😏 We're not mad, as long as you share our content. Start here

The Open Africa Podcast

On this podcast 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about technology, startups, and issues across the African technology ecosystem. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

podfollow.com

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1 year

Crypto platform Pillow is exiting Nigeria

Crypto startup Pillow ceases operations, cites regulatory climate as the reason.

techcabal.com

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9 months

We don't even like saying “we said so” so then, didn't we?🤷🏾‍♀️

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9 months

Haven't seen much from the blogs so let's talk about something pretty cool over the weekend. @ouredenlife unveiled their new look and platform, Eden Marketplace, at the African Startup Fest

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2 years

Last week, we looked at web3, this week, we're considering DAOs! 😌 What are DAOs exactly? How did they come to be? What can I use them for? Look through the thread for a breakdown, you're welcomee!✨ 1/4

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3 months

Ask and you shall receive:

Paystack 2023

How Paystack served ambitious makers in Africa, in 2023.

paystack.com

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6 months

Would be nice is Paystack (or Flutterwave or Interswitch) did an industry report on the state of online payments.

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1 year

Everybody’s interbank is failing at the same time. NIBSS:

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2 years

Welcome to our new followers!✨☺️ If you're still wondering what we do – we basically have the most enjoyable conversations around finance, tech, and startups in Africa on this side of the block! Listen to all our episodes here:

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9 months

Visa has selected 23 African startups for its inaugural Africa Fintech Accelerator program. This marks a significant step in supporting the growing fintech community in Africa and connecting more unbanked individuals to the digital economy

Visa selects 23 African startups for fintech accelerator

Anchor, Orda Africa, Dojah, Moni and 19 other African startups have been selected for the inaugural cohort of the Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator.

www.benjamindada.com

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3 months

A new tax from Abuja has dropped: Cybersecurity Levy. This tax will go towards funding national cybersecurity initiatives and activities that the ONSA oversees. In simple terms, some of your electronic transactions will become slightly more expensive starting soon.

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4 months

Have to redo that deck

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1 year

If you're wondering how NIBSS works and why Fintech people haven't created a rival NIBSS yet, you should watch this excerpt from the newest episode of the podcast, we have answers.. Full episode here:

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1 year

From NIBSS

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Providus is doing lil price increase on their virtual accounts and… ripple effects

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1 year

Hello people, we have a new episode❗ We talked about revoked banking licenses, technology journalism, and the woes of B2C companies in Nigeria. Listen here🔊

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10 months

Banter aside, any loan app without an iOS app by design is probably not respecting your data or privacy. Because there are plenty permissions that Google extends and Apple doesn’t.

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2 months

Waking up to revoked license is the the 4th stage

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3 years

Did you know @getequity lets you invest in Startups for as little $10? We spoke to them in our latest episode about their journey so far and biggest challenges. Link here 👉🏾

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6 months

What they say vs What they do

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11 months

At Tinubu $ or Buhari $? We’re going to have to start dropping the rate when doing this $ conversions.

TechCabal is preparing for Moonshot👨🏾‍🚀

@TechCabal

11 months

Since its public debut one year ago, Anchor has processed more than $550 million.

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1 year

Hi there! 👋 Ever wondered what happens when you dispute a card transaction? Let's break it down in simple terms. Think of it as a journey with multiple steps. 🚶‍♂️💳 #CardDisputes

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2 years

Refresh your podcast apps, ladies and gentlemen📢 In this new episode, we talked about Moniepoint and Nomba, toxic workplaces, and MTN's PSB license! Listen to The “state of the industry” episode here:

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3 months

You have probably noticed how banks in Nigeria charge a small ₦50 fee when you receive a transfer above ₦10,000. This fee is called the Electronic Money Transfer Levy (or Stamp Duty).

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“Free transfers” was the “get paid early” for Nigerian neobanks. Great wedge for first movers, but table stakes now

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