{"id":8992,"date":"2018-02-20T18:07:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T18:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/?p=8992"},"modified":"2024-07-13T18:08:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T18:08:31","slug":"the-lhoft-interview-with-elizabeth-rossiello-ceo-and-founder-of-bitpesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/the-lhoft-interview-with-elizabeth-rossiello-ceo-and-founder-of-bitpesa\/","title":{"rendered":"The LHoft: Interview with Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO and Founder of BitPesa","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The video features an interview with Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO and founder of BitPesa, discussing the company&#8217;s growth and strategic decisions. BitPesa, a B2B payments platform using blockchain technology, facilitates low-cost, fast, and easy payments for businesses across Africa. Rossiello highlights BitPesa&#8217;s expansion from Kenya and Nigeria to Senegal and further into North Africa and the Middle East. She explains the choice of Luxembourg for their European office due to its supportive regulatory environment and connections with both anglophone and francophone Africa. Rossiello also emphasizes the importance of their recent funding rounds to support infrastructure development and market expansion. Watch it <a class=\"waffle-rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N5TJkY8aOEo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video features an interview with Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO and founder of BitPesa, discussing the company&#8217;s growth and strategic decisions. BitPesa, a B2B payments platform using blockchain technology, facilitates low-cost, fast, and easy payments for businesses across Africa. Rossiello highlights BitPesa&#8217;s expansion from Kenya and Nigeria to Senegal and further into North Africa and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":4,"featured_media":8993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[188,258,585,783,760,903,767,902,904,886],"class_list":["post-8992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aza-news","tag-africa","tag-b2b-payments","tag-bitpesa","tag-blockchain-technology","tag-expansion","tag-funding-rounds","tag-infrastructure","tag-luxembourg","tag-market-growth","tag-regulatory-environment"],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992","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=8992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}