On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa discuss some of the latest happenings in the Nigerian Tech Ecosystem – Interswitch's recent $110 million raise and their newly updated perks for employees of the company, BridgeCard - an app that allows you have all your cards in one place, and Open Banking.

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On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about Foreign Exchange – how it works, how people source FX as individuals and businesses in Nigeria, recent regulations and restrictions, and how the “black market” come to play.

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On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa discuss Moniepoint and Nomba, toxic workplaces, and the potential impact of MTNs PSB license.

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On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about some of the recent raises in the Ecosystem– BigCabal's $2.3 million seed funding, Dash's $32.8 million seed funding, Moove's $105 million series B funding – and finally take a deep dive into the B2B supply chain businesses in the African startup scene.

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On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa discuss some of the latest happenings in the Nigerian Tech Ecosystem – Earnipay's launch and what they do, Reliance's $40M raise led by General Atlantic, Flutterwave 3.0 and it's implications for the startup scene in Africa.

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On this episode, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa have Gbenga – big time fan of the podcast and blockchain engineer – to give insights on what exactly Web3 is, why it exists, and if we should be interested in it.

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On this episode of the podcast, 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about the Payment Service Bank (PSB) License, how the license can be obtained and what the license does.

We also considered MTN's existing mobile money network in countries across Africa, how it works, and what an expansion would look like.

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On this episode 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa, following the recent trends in the Finance and Technology industry talk about compliance and Risk management; what the Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) controls do, why they exist, and who they apply to.

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On this episode 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa consider some of the recent raises by companies in the Ecosystem, what they do and the impact of these raises – Mono raising $15M, Stitch's $2M seed extension and expansion to Nigeria, Sparkle's seed round raise of $3.1M, Brass' $1.7M raise, Moove and MFS Africa.

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We apologize for this episode's quality. Something broke during recording and we didn't catch it until after. We thought about scrapping it several times, but it is such a fun and insightful conversation that we decided not to. Please bear with us.

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On this episode 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa have a conversation with Nadayar - CEO/Cofounder at Edenlife; a tech company in Lagos bringing the convenience of room service to homes.

They talk about the journey so far, why Edenlife is important, and biggest challenges.

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