The Open Africa Podcast
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The Open Africa Podcast
On this podcast 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about technology, startups, and issues across the African banking and technology ecosystems. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Kredete, Rulebase & News across Africa
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about recent developments across the continent! They start off by discussing Kredete’s recent $22 million...
Chowdeck’s Raise, Nomba, Nedbank & iKhokha
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about Chowdeck’s growth and recent $9 million series A funding raise, Nedbank’s acquisition of iKhokha, a...
The Food Episode
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa are joined by Osarumen Osamuyi from The Subtext!
They talk about the recent collapses of Vendease and Ok...
Fincra’s Expansion, Palmpay’s plan to Raise, and Alleged Industry News
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about dLocal’s intention to acquire AZA Finance, Fincra’s Expansion to East Africa, Palmpay’s plan to Rai...
The Rant about Bank Charges
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about Banks—how banks make money, how banks loan money, and what most Nigerians think about bank charges,...
Paystack’s Zap, Payhippo’s Pivot, and Premium Tiers for Neobanks
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about Paystack launching Zap, PayHippo’s recent $4 million raise, rebrand as Rivy and pivot to clean ener...
Funding Rounds, Shutdowns, and Industry News
On this episode of the podcast, 'Laolu, Nosa, and Furo talk about Cedar Money’s $9.9 million seed round, Ghana-based fintech Oze securing undisclosed...
Cross Border Remittance & The LemFi Playbook
Welcome to our first explainer episode for 2025!
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On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about how cross border payments and remitt...
The One where we talk about Bento
On this episode of the podcast, 'Laolu, Nosa, and Furo talk about Moniepoint and Visa’s partnership, Accrue, SeamlessHR’s additional $9 million raise...
Raises, Bankruptcy & 2025 Predictions
On this episode of the podcast, 'Laolu, Nosa, and Furo talk about the KPMG Customer finance report; what exactly investing in commodity looks like, Le...
Open Africa Year in Review 2024
…and it’s a wrap! Thank you for rocking with your favorite finance trio this year (and don’t worry, we tried not to make “doomy” predictions this time...
Moniepoint wants to be a Commercial Bank
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about Moniepoint raising $110 million in their series C funding and achieving Unicorn status, their ambit...
Rise, Chipper, and US Dollar Woes
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about some developments in the ecosystem in recent weeks. They consider Rise’s acquisition of Hisa; a Ken...
MTN MoMo Reshuffle, Providus Merger, and First Bank Fraud
We call this the episode that almost never was but thankfully we were able to salvage it (everybody, say thank you ‘Laolu!) and now you get to listen....
Global Payments and a hackathon with tbDEX
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa have a guest! They are joined by Angie Jones, the Global Vice President of Developer Relations for tbd. This i...
Carbon, Cards, and Brass
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa do a deep dive into some not so exciting news in the Tech Ecosystem; Carbon shut down its debit card service o...
CBN is cleaning up the Ecosystem
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa recount recent popping headlines in the Tech Ecosystem, Orca’s $550,000 pre-seed round led by Norrsken22, the...
The End of The Peer
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa discuss YC’s list of best performing startups, the Peer’s shutdown, CBN’s directive for neobanks to temporaril...
CBN was right about Binance
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa recount some activities of The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in recent weeks; new BDC regulations, revoking of...
The Crypto Face Off Episode
Happy New Year, everyone!
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On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about some updates in the Cryptocurrency Industry; CNGN stable co...
Crypto is Open for Business in Nigeria
Merry Christmas, everyone!🎄
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On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa look at some industry predictions made in January, if they came to...
Interswitch, Crowdyvest, and a December Round Up
We recorded this episode remotely so if the sound quality seems a little off, that's why, please bear with us.
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On this episode, 'Laolu,...
Dash is shutting down and how to raise money in the Nigerian capital market
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa have a guest! They are joined by Kenny Bayeroju; an investment and finance professional based in Nigeria. Toge...
The Float Incident and Monitoring Your CEO’s Social Media
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa share their thoughts on some industry news - ChipperCash's pivot into offering KYC services, Anchor raising $2...
Moniepoint is expanding
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa discuss Moniepoint; evolution from B2B to B2C, expansion to Kenya and acquisition of Kopo Kopo, the limitation...
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The Ripple Effects of the [Unified] Exchange Rate
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa recap the events of the past month, discussing Bundle and Pillow in the retail crypto space, FX policies in Ni...
The Card Business and eNaira
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa take a deep dive on cards, shedding light on concepts like card types, card schemes, and the difficulties in r...
Lazerpay, Eyowo, and navigating B2C
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa weigh in on the latest happenings in the industry - Lazerpay and the media, technology journalism, the implica...
Retail Crypto Struggles in Nigeria
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa discuss the recent happenings in the Crypto space in Nigeria amongst several industry news - Paxful and Lazerp...
The Turmoils of African Tech Layoffs
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa consider the recent events in the African Tech Ecosystem - Alerzo's second round of layoffs in seven months an...
What is Tingo & How Nigerian bank transfers work
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa set out to solve the mystery of An Agri-fintech company's existence, Dozy Mmobuosi's ongoing plan to purchase...
AI is coming for Our Jobs
Happy New Year!
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On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa attempt to make predictions for 2023, consider how AI might be coming after our...
On Kora and what happened in Kenya
On this episode of the podcast, ‘Laolu, Furo, and Nosa have a conversation with Dickson Nsofor – Founder and CEO of Kora.
They talk about his jo...
On Genti Media
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa have guests; Ojiugo Uche and Ekemezie Uche - Co-founders Genti Media, an entertainment company promoting audio...
On Kuda and Fincra
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa have a guest; Wole Ayodele - CEO Fincra, a fintech providing Fincra providing solutions that enable their clie...
The “Redacted” Episode
* If you hear a number of blips - as you will - we had to filter this episode (quite heavily too) because we're really not trying to fight.. yet💀 *
On Dodgy Marketing & Snitching-As-A-Service
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about FinTech marketing on social media, some regulations, and why “Snitching-As-A-Service” just might be...
On Cards, Fraud, and Regulatory troubles
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa bring us up to speed on some of the latest happenings in the Tech Ecosystem – Union 54, Flutterwave's recent i...
On BridgeCard and Open Banking
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa discuss some of the latest happenings in the Nigerian Tech Ecosystem – Interswitch's recent $110 million raise...
On Foreign Exchange
On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about Foreign Exchange – how it works, how people source FX as individuals and businesses in Nigeria, rec...