If African startups struggle with exits, how do they find their valuations?
I recently sat down with two entrepreneurs from opposite ends of Africa — Anthony Munyi in Kenya and Akwete “AK”...
AI and immortality in the year of the snake
In this playful speech given at an awards dinner in Tokyo, Japan in March 2025, I started by wanting to...
DeepSeek’s “Open Source” breakthrough from inside China
DeepSeek and Alibaba’s QN 2.5 have surpassed OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o and Meta’s Lama, shifting the AI landscape. This is not just...
Nigerian banks and fintechs need to focus on rebuilding the economy
First Bank Nigeria had invited me as keynote speaker at their Fintech 6.0 Summit in October last year, which the...
DeFi is setting the rules by which banking will be run shortly
In this wide-ranging keynote at the First Bank Nigeria's Fintech 6.0, I outlined how DeFi is setting new standards of...
Geopolitics and the global payment system
Right after SIBOS, as the SWIFT Interbank Operations Summit is called, was held in Beijing from 21-24 October, I posted...
