{"id":8924,"date":"2021-07-30T15:09:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T15:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/?p=8924"},"modified":"2024-07-11T15:12:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T15:12:06","slug":"bloomberg-blockchain-and-the-future-of-african-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/bloomberg-blockchain-and-the-future-of-african-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg: Blockchain and the Future of African Finance","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview, Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO and founder of AZA Finance, discusses the significant role of digital assets and blockchain technology in modernizing financial services across Africa. AZA Finance has become a leading non-bank broker for foreign exchange and treasury solutions, providing vital financial infrastructure to businesses on the continent. Rossiello highlights the impact of COVID-19, which accelerated the shift towards digital finance as traditional banks struggled with operational challenges. She emphasizes the importance of embracing blockchain and digital currencies to enhance accessibility and efficiency in financial transactions. Rossiello also touches on the need for strategic expansion through acquisitions and the normalization of digital currencies within the broader financial ecosystem. Watch it <a class=\"waffle-rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PhGuOhfi29U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview, Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO and founder of AZA Finance, discusses the significant role of digital assets and blockchain technology in modernizing financial services across Africa. AZA Finance has become a leading non-bank broker for foreign exchange and treasury solutions, providing vital financial infrastructure to businesses on the continent. Rossiello highlights the impact of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":4,"featured_media":8925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[473,586,208,806,530,400,678,808,185,807],"class_list":["post-8924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aza-news","tag-aza-finance","tag-blockchain","tag-covid-19","tag-digital-assets","tag-digital-currencies","tag-elizabeth-rossiello","tag-financial-infrastructure","tag-fintech-expansion","tag-foreign-exchange","tag-treasury-solutions"],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}