{"id":8978,"date":"2019-06-03T17:28:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T17:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/?p=8978"},"modified":"2024-07-13T17:29:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T17:29:56","slug":"unchained-bitpesas-elizabeth-rossiello-on-necker-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/unchained-bitpesas-elizabeth-rossiello-on-necker-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Unchained: BitPesa&#8217;s Elizabeth Rossiello on Necker Island","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview, Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO and founder of BitPesa (now AZA Finance), discusses the origins and mission of her company, which provides efficient foreign exchange and B2B payment solutions in sub-Saharan Africa using blockchain technology. Rossiello highlights the challenges faced in traditional remittances and payments, such as high fees and inefficient processes, and how BitPesa leverages Bitcoin to streamline transactions across borders. She emphasizes the importance of integrating technology with local financial systems to enhance financial inclusion and economic growth. Rossiello also shares insights into the regulatory landscape and the need for clarity and support from regulators to foster innovation in the financial sector. Watch it <a class=\"waffle-rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VCXK1BFF5vE\" 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 BitPesa (now AZA Finance), discusses the origins and mission of her company, which provides efficient foreign exchange and B2B payment solutions in sub-Saharan Africa using blockchain technology. Rossiello highlights the challenges faced in traditional remittances and payments, such as high fees and inefficient processes, and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":4,"featured_media":8979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[188,473,258,177,585,586,592,185,758,441],"class_list":["post-8978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aza-news","tag-africa","tag-aza-finance","tag-b2b-payments","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitpesa","tag-blockchain","tag-financial-inclusion","tag-foreign-exchange","tag-regulatory-challenges","tag-remittances"],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978","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=8978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}