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TechTrends podcast is an African tech podcast that tracks and reports on technology trends - startups and business news from across Africa.
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The TechTrends Podcast | Inside I&M Bank's Digital Playbook (opens the original)
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Before leading Group Digital Business at I&M Bank, Eunice Gatama helped build Fuliza M-PESA at Safaricom — one of East Africa's most iconic digital finance products. In this episode, she joins Nick Kanali to unpack how that experience shapes her approach to digital banking, and what it takes to lead digital strategy across five markets: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Mauritius. We dig into I&M Bank's digital transformation - 90% of new-to-bank customers onboarding digitally, 5x growth in t
The TechTrends Podcast | Building the Agentic Enterprise in Africa | WSO2Con 2026 (opens the original)
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Africa's AI moment is here - but most enterprises aren't ready for it. The challenge isn't access to AI tools. It's the foundational infrastructure underneath: APIs, integration, identity, and governance. Get that wrong, and every AI initiative fails. In this episode, Nixon Kanali sits down with Dinal Gooneratne , VP and General Manager for Africa at WSO2 , ahead of WSO2Con Africa 2026 - the first-ever WSO2 flagship conference on the continent, coming to Nairobi's JW Marriott this September. The
The TechTrends Podcast | From Smartphones to Safe Water: The iClear Story (opens the original)
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From selling TECNO smartphones across Africa to building a water purification company serving 10,000+ customers in Kenya and Nigeria — this is the story of Yanxiong Zhong, Co-Founder and CEO of iClear Wellife.In this episode, Zhong joins TechTrends to unpack the problem most people never think about: water can look and taste fine and still not be safe to drink. He shares how six years in senior commercial roles at Transsion Holdings shaped his understanding of African markets, why he chose Rever
The TechTrends Podcast | How Verto Is Building Africa's Cross-Border Trade Infrastructure (opens the original)
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Mark Mwaniki, Commercial Director, Verto East Africa, joins the TechTrends Podcast to unpack how businesses are moving money across African borders and why every payment corridor is a different problem to solve. We talk fintech consolidation, hidden FX costs, regulatory trust, and what it actually takes to build cross-border payment infrastructure that works at scale. Follow us on all our socials Twitter: https://twitter.com/@TechTrendsKE
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