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Today on the podcast, our hosts discuss:

Nigerian fintechs and all things CBN policies
What we know about the 16-month salary delay claims at Bloc


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Timestamps

00:00 - Intro
00:24 - Nigerian fintechs and CBN
23:12 - What we know about owed salaries at Bloc
 
Useful links



CBN stops account openings for Kuda, Moniepoint, OPay 
New anti-fraud law mandates Nigerian PoS agents to register as businesses with regulator 
Everything we know about 16-month salary delay claims at Bloc 

 
This episode was produced by Ogheneruemu Oneyibo and Crystal-Agnes Joseph
 
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Today on the podcast, our hosts discuss:

Tanzania's unlicenced loan apps
Nigeria's San Francisco startup house
Paystack's 2023 report


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Link to Insight of the Week: https://intelpoint.co/insights/nigeria-the-telecoms-industrys-contribution-to-the-gdp-has-hit-the-15-mark-twice-in-5-years/
 

Timestamps

00:00 - Intro
01:06 - Tanzania's unlicenced loan apps
11:00 - Nigeria's San Francisco startup house
22:11 - Paystack's 2023 report
 
Useful links

Tanzania's central bank bans unlicensed loan app with new directives
FG approves startup hub in San Francisco and an SPV that will build 90,000km of fibre optic cable 
Transfers might displace card transactions but not any time soon




This episode was produced by Ogheneruemu Oneyibo and Crystal-Agnes Joseph
 
Email us your feedback at podcast@techpoint.africa. Visit www.techpoint.africa/ for more stories.
 

Music - Beach by MBB - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEnQ8dHwDSk

 
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Today on the podcast, we welcome a familiar face, Omoruyi Edoigiawerie, Startup Attorney and Chief Servant, E & C Legal. He joins our hosts as we discuss:

Nigeria's about-to-be-implemented cybersecurity levy
Nigerian PoS agents registering with the CAC
The latest update on the Patricia hack

Did you know? Nigeria deploys 74,000 new Point of Sale terminals on average each month. Find out more here

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Timestamps

00:00 - Intro
02:40 - Nigeria's cybersecurity levy
28:01 - Nigerian PoS agents to register with CAC
37:22 - Update on the Patricia saga
 
Useful links




Hack or mismanagement? Inside Patricia's troubling customer fund crisis/


Nigerians to pay 0.5% cybersecurity levy on all electronic transactions/


Over 1.8 million PoS agents must register with the CAC/


Nigeria to remove naira on P2P platforms following order to shut crypto-related accounts/




This episode was produced by Ogheneruemu Oneyibo and Crystal-Agnes Joseph
 
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Our guest on today's podcast is Ray Youssef, CEO, NoOnes. We discuss Nigeria's recent clampdown on Binance and crypto and what happened with his last company, Paxful.
 
But before that, we highlight  a few stories from this week.

BuuPass acquires QuickBus
CBN stops Moniepoint, Kuda, OPay from opening new accounts
MTN Nigeria records first loss since 2021 IPO

Link to Insight of the Week: https://intelpoint.co/insights/mtn-nigeria-recorded-its-first-loss-in-2023-since-its-initial-public-offering/
 

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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:21 - Recap of the news
03:16 - Thoughts on the clampdown
08:10 - Did P2P really cause the fall of the naira?
12:21 - Did Binance make money from P2P?
14:44 - Is the Nigerian government justified in going after Binance?
17:29 - The real numbers for crypto in Nigeria
20:11 - Consequences of the clampdown
23:57 - The real crypto scammers
25:26 - The double-edged sword of licencing requirements
28:36 -  NoOnes' role
32:28 - The importance of P2P
35:15 - What went wrong with Paxful
38:09 - How NoOnes will redeem the Paxful failure
39:24 - Possible challenges for NoOnes
43:32 - Outro
 
Useful links



Kenyan BuuPass acquires QuickBus to expand to Nigeria and South Africa
CBN stops account openings for Kuda, Moniepoint, OPay
Q1 2024: MTN Nigeria's userbase sinks, loses ₦656.4 billion in foreign exchange





This episode was produced by Ogheneruemu Oneyibo
 
Email us your feedback at podcast@techpoint.africa. Visit www.techpoint.africa/ for more stories.
 

Music - Beach by MBB -
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Our guest on today's podcast is Rosemond Phil-Othihiwa, Corporate and Startup Lawyer. She joins us as we discuss:

The Thepeer audit
South Africa's approved crypto asset providers
Nigeria's first multilingual LLM

Link to Insight of the Week: https://intelpoint.co/insights/only-once-have-nigerian-fintech-startups-raised-more-than-1-billion-in-a-single-year/

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Timestamps

00:00 - Intro
00:22 - The Thepeer audit
22:21 - South Africa's approved crypto asset providers
31:24 - Nigeria's first multilingual LLM
 
Useful links




Nigeria launches first multilingual LLM after drafting initial National AI Strategy


Thepeer investors request audit following shutdown


Regulator confirms approved crypto asset providers for licencing in South Africa






This episode was produced by Ogheneruemu Oneyibo
 
Email us your feedback at podcast@techpoint.africa. Visit www.techpoint.africa/ for more stories.
 

Music - Beach by MBB -
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Our guest on today's podcast is Temitope Adeyemi, CEO and Founder, insurtech startup, Pay-U. He joins us as we discuss:

Pula's $20m raise
Starlink's troubles in Africa
Lessons from building Konga by Sim Shagaya


Link to Insight of the Week: https://intelpoint.co/insights/multichoices-revenue-has-been-growing-at-an-average-of-4/
 
Download Intelpoint's The Nigerian Insurance Industry report here
 
Listen to the episode where we first talked about Sim Shagaya's VC foray: https://podcast.techpoint.africa/episodes/tap-218
 
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Timestamps

00:00 - Intro
03:16 - Pula's $20m raise
27:26 - Starlink's troubles in Africa
35:01 - Lessons from building Konga by Sim Shagaya 
 
Useful links


Kenya’s Pula gets $20 million Series B to offer insurance to 100 million farmers in Africa
Telecom regulator orders Starlink to cut off subscribers in Zimbabwe
Starlink to disconnect subscribers in Ghana, South Africa, Botswana
Inside Sim Shagaya's mission to fund and support resilient African entrepreneurs
Sim Shagaya on lessons learnt building Konga




This episode was produced by Ogheneruemu Oneyibo
 
Email us your feedback at podcast@techpoint.africa. Visit www.techpoint.africa/ for more stories.

 


Music - Beach by MBB -
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