{"id":8966,"date":"2020-12-04T17:10:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T17:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/?p=8966"},"modified":"2024-07-13T17:12:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T17:12:40","slug":"henri-arslanian-elizabeth-rossiello-assets-all-over-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/henri-arslanian-elizabeth-rossiello-assets-all-over-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"Henri Arslanian: Elizabeth Rossiello &#8211; Assets All Over the Globe","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview, Elizabeth Rossiello, founder and CEO of AZA Finance, discusses the challenges and potential solutions for cross-border payments in Africa. She explains how cryptocurrencies can lower the cost and friction of these transactions, which are significantly higher in Africa compared to other regions. Rossiello highlights the importance of reducing de-risking, where financial institutions avoid African markets due to perceived risks. She also touches on the impact of major initiatives like Facebook&#8217;s Libra and the role of central bank digital currencies in improving financial inclusion and accessibility. Rossiello&#8217;s message to policymakers emphasizes the importance of being open to new technologies that can modernize and reduce friction in the financial system. Watch it <a class=\"waffle-rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gw4Acf7_3To\" 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, founder and CEO of AZA Finance, discusses the challenges and potential solutions for cross-border payments in Africa. She explains how cryptocurrencies can lower the cost and friction of these transactions, which are significantly higher in Africa compared to other regions. Rossiello highlights the importance of reducing de-risking, where financial institutions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":4,"featured_media":8967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[188,473,458,259,591,890,400,592,707,891],"class_list":["post-8966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aza-news","tag-africa","tag-aza-finance","tag-central-bank-digital-currencies","tag-cross-border-payments","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-de-risking","tag-elizabeth-rossiello","tag-financial-inclusion","tag-financial-technology","tag-libra"],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966","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=8966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}