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Inside The Africa Tech Summit, Nairobi | Key Moments with TechTrends Media · The TechTrends Podcast

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  Good morning. We're live at the Africa Tech
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  Summit 2026. I'm right in the middle of the
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  innovation flow where tech founders, leaders and investors
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  from across Africa are showcasing ideas that are
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  solving real life problems and shaping the future of the
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  continent. So stick with us as you take you
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  inside the conversation, the technology and the talent
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  driving Africa's tech future moving forward.
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  Welcome. Good morning.
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  Good morning. Can you start by telling us your
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  name and the company you're working for?
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  Yeah, sure. I'm Josh Bresley and Head of
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  Sales at Power Bank. We're APSP and we work across 20
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  countries in Africa and essentially we give you one API
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  and gives large global businesses access to mobile
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  money without the complexity of having to do all of the
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  individual integrations. So.
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  What impact has the ATS done to your company in the past years?
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  I think the main benefit is around the ecosystem.
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  So we see all of our partners, all of our networks, a lot of
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  people in the space. We do tend to speak to merchants
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  and new prospects here as well. But I think certainly seeing the
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  the kind of partners that we already have and expanding those
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  relationships is what's most important.
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  Thinkra is a cross-border payment infrastructure business
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  for African businesses to be able to move value across Africa
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  and internationally. So cross-border payments,
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  cross-border infrastructure, moving value across Africa, that
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  is what required us. So I can see FINCRA is among the
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  headline partners of the Africa Tech Summit 2026.
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  So what impact has the Africa Tech Summit done to Fincra?
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  So I mean, this is like what our third year, fourth year coming
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  now. We love being a part of this
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  summit, right? And for us, you know, being very
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  dominant in Africa, Kenya is a very key country for us, right?
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  We have businesses here that we are serving.
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  We have partners here. You know, we're very, very in
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  tune with the regulators here. So being a part of the ETS just
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  gives us that opportunity to always like be in this space
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  where everyone is, where tech conversations are going on,
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  where the business conversations are going on, where the impacts
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  of conversations are going on. And, you know, we want to always
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  be at the forefront of that conversation.
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  At its core is a crypto exchange.
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  We believe in making it seamless for people to enter into the
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  crypto market from Fiat and the reverse, and providing a general
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  financial infrastructure for people to democratise finance
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  globally. This is the first time that
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  Cardano is here, so this is a very good opportunity for us to
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  actually do the scalability as well as outreach and even do the
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  Edu tech part which we normally do.
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  That is to inform people about what Cardano is.
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  Cardano is a type of blockchain and also with the ever changing
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  technology and emerging trends, this will be a very good
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  opportunity for us to meet like minded people from across the
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  world. Been an ATS 2026 Nairobi for the
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  very first time has been an enthralling experience having
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  gone around a lot of the boots. Over 80 boots of sheer
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  ingenuity. African founders walking across
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  various verticals from education to self development, financial
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  services and agricultural technology.
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  Using technology to solve pinpoints across the continent
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  has been truly motivating. And I think that one key take
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  out from a lot of the sessions here today is that when we build
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  products or must build products with their mind to serve and
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  also layer compliance over it. So that your product not only
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  wins the hearts and minds of people, but in doing that, it
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  serves, it meets the regulators at the point of their need.
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  All right, So it's, it's being a very interesting eye opening
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  conversation. And if you're not here, you're
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  missing out. And that brings us to the close
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  of the Africa. Text Army. 20. 26 hosted here in
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  Nairobi County, Kenya and it's evidence.
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  That Africas technology isn't just growing, it's evolving.
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  Becoming more resilient and more.
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  Collaborative. See you in the next ATS in
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  London.