Senior Fintech Analyst
Nchedolisa Akuma is an experienced digital financial services consultant. She has built up relevant industry expertise working as a strategy advisor for one of Nigeria's largest payment companies. Her core focus areas include payments, credit, consumer finance, and digital financial regulations.
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19 SEP 2023We assess the problems Flutterwave's recently launched Swap aims to solve.
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13 SEP 2023In the fight for Kenyan merchants, banks have three advantages—bigger account limits, targeted loans and competitive pricing—over Safaricom’s M-PESA.
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31 AUG 2023Nigerian women face education, location, and other barriers when accessing financial services. We analyse five barriers and benefits to fixing them.
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24 AUG 2023We assess the adequacy of credit finance solutions for Kenya’s small businesses.
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14 AUG 2023We uncover nine trends that show Nigeria's evolving consumer payments, unpacking opportunities to boost financial inclusion.
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01 AUG 2023Is Nigeria’s payment juggernaut doing a good job of supporting the digital economy?
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24 JUL 2023An assessment of how the CBN's policy reversal on remittances will benefit the Nigerian economy.
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14 JUL 2023Unpacking PalmPay's innovative financial inclusion approach and its secret ingredients—steep discounts, wide distribution, and payment infrastructure.
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07 JUL 2023We assess events driving Ghana's financial inclusion success.
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22 JUN 2023Cross-border fintechs built their moats on Nigeria's FX market inefficiencies. With Nigeria's latest FX reforms, we assess what could change.
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14 JUN 2023Implementation of Nigeria's Startup Act has stalled. What does this mean for tech businesses?
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31 MAY 2023Analysing the more effective platform for reaching the financially excluded; USSD or mobile banking
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19 MAY 2023Amidst no consolidated identity management system in Nigeria, we look into strategies Fintech startups apply to reduce bad borrower incidence.
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04 MAY 2023The Journey to Digital Nigeria: Progress and Challenges of the National Broadband Plan.
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18 APR 2023POS wars: Banks vs Fintechs
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05 APR 2023We assess how foreigners' bias, closed-down funds and historically low deal flow defined Africa's tech ecosystem in March.
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28 MAR 2023An analysis of how Nigeria’s digital payment systems have evolved.
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02 MAR 2023How Nigeria's cash scarcity is impacting mobile money agents.
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14 FEB 2023We look into the CBN's financial inclusion agenda for AfriGo, its domestic card scheme.
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06 FEB 2023Assessing B2B solutions for Nigeria's small businesses.
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17 JAN 2023Assessing the new CBN cash withdrawal limit and its impact on POS agents.
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09 JAN 2023POS jobs, dodgy borrowers, fraud reports and other predictions to look out for in Nigeria's Fintech ecosystem in 2023.
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03 JAN 2023How microfinance banking licenses are helping digital lenders reduce costs and expand their revenue base.
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07 OCT 2022Regulators must create enough incentives in their licensing standards to attract potential startup founders to build viable payment solutions.