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June 2025

🌯Inclusive FinTech Knowledge Bites [Week #71]
Fintech’s infrastructure shift is here: from dirt roads to distribution rails. Explore Transsion’s two-speed innovation & Nigeria’s PoS hidden…
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🌯Inclusive FinTech Knowledge Bites [Week #70]
Discover how Africa’s youth are reshaping financial access, the real infrastructure behind fintech growth, and how it all inspired Chime’s IPO
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🌯Inclusive FinTech Knowledge Bites [Week #69]
Bitcoin hopes and risks in Kenya’s slums. Mobile wallets are reshaping finance from the edge in. Learn to spot hidden churn traps in agent networks.
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🌯Inclusive FinTech Knowledge Bites [Week #68]
How informal jobs fuel Africa’s youth economy, Brazil tests data dividends as next-gen UBI, and PalmPay’s offline-first agent network succeeds in…
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May 2025

🌯Inclusive FinTech Knowledge Bites [Week #67]
How Twiga is transforms distribution, MTN is powering digital credit in Africa, and the infrastructure for MSMEs that banks can’t reach.
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🕵️‍♂️ Behavioural Economics : How Agent Networks Humanize Financial Inclusion
Applying Behavioural Economics lens in Financial Inclusion
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🌯Inclusive FinTech Knowledge Bites [Week #66]
Village hubs in China and Indonesia fuel rural e-commerce, discover 4 last-mile models in Africa and how neighbourhood trust can solve Q-commerce.
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🌯Inclusive FinTech Knowledge Bites [Week #65]
Gold-melting ATM redefines savings, Bolt's cost-cutting tricycle targets equity, and why one platform backed drivers over discounts.
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April 2025

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