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I wrote about Wave, one of the most fascinating emerging stories in global fintech. Wave is building affordable, widely accessible financial infrastructure for Sub-Saharan Africa in an effort to become the continent's first contemporary fintech platform
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Ideally, the lending product would create: (1) A tech-enabled window into the creator’s business and (2) a repayment flow from the platform to the lender that mirrors the cash flows of the business. By building predictability into the unprecedented and de-risking the payback, a tech-enabled subscription platform may allow lenders to provide... See more
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