Welcome to the 9th episode of the Fintech Founders Series! This time we explore an Africa’s fintech success story of Chijioke Dozie, the CEO of Carbon, a credit banking app that is rewriting the rule of lending in the region. Carbon is providing millions of underbanked households in the continent easier access to credit along with a huge financial services suite such as its new BNPL app launched in June 2022.
The insightful discussion along with our hosts, Ronit Ghose and Gaurav Dhar, sees Chijioke shared his years of experience and knowledge on the Fintech evolution in Africa and the credit gap that remains a huge problem to solve for Carbon. Among many topics covered:
🔹 Fintech emergence in Africa
🔹 How has consumer lending changed in Africa
🔹 Success story of Carbon
🔹 Being a challenger bank and solving consumer problems
As Chijioke said,
“Customers are still underbanked, and that’s the challenge for ourselves that we need to solve this problem – that’s where the future is.“
Chijioke Dozie, the CEO of Carbon
You can watch the sessions below on Youtube, or listen it on Apple and Spotify Podcasts.
