{"id":8984,"date":"2022-09-12T17:47:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T17:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/?p=8984"},"modified":"2024-07-13T17:58:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T17:58:59","slug":"paris-fintech-forum-interview-of-elizabeth-rossiello-ceo-of-the-fintech-aza-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/paris-fintech-forum-interview-of-elizabeth-rossiello-ceo-of-the-fintech-aza-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Fintech Forum: Interview of Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO of the #fintech Aza Finance","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the interview, Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO and founder of AZA Finance, discusses the growth and operations of her company, the largest non-bank foreign exchange broker in Africa. AZA Finance, initially established as BitPesa, uses both cryptocurrency and fiat to facilitate cross-border payments and currency exchanges. The company, which has expanded significantly over the past nine years, focuses on achieving profitability in each market before expanding further. Rossiello emphasizes the importance of compliance and the hybrid approach of using both crypto and fiat for efficient trading. She also discusses the future of fintech in Africa, the impact of regulation, and the potential of emerging technologies like blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Watch it <a class=\"waffle-rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ipaTt8mfUzc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the interview, Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO and founder of AZA Finance, discusses the growth and operations of her company, the largest non-bank foreign exchange broker in Africa. AZA Finance, initially established as BitPesa, uses both cryptocurrency and fiat to facilitate cross-border payments and currency exchanges. The company, which has expanded significantly over the past nine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":4,"featured_media":8985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[188,473,585,586,770,259,583,646,347,185],"class_list":["post-8984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aza-news","tag-africa","tag-aza-finance","tag-bitpesa","tag-blockchain","tag-compliance","tag-cross-border-payments","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-fiat","tag-fintech","tag-foreign-exchange"],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984","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=8984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}