{"id":9023,"date":"2018-01-02T10:17:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T10:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/?p=9023"},"modified":"2024-07-17T06:44:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T06:44:53","slug":"the-banker-bitpesa-eases-fx-pain-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/the-banker-bitpesa-eases-fx-pain-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Banker: BitPesa eases FX pain in Africa","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Rossiello, founder and CEO of BitPesa, discusses how her company uses Bitcoin and blockchain technology to address foreign exchange (FX) challenges in African markets. BitPesa, a digital FX brokerage, facilitates B2B payments across six sub-Saharan countries and is licensed in the UK. The company provides liquidity and competitive FX solutions, using Bitcoin to lower costs and improve transaction speed. Despite regulatory hurdles, particularly in Kenya, BitPesa has gained traction with large corporates and is expanding into new regions. Rossiello emphasizes blockchain&#8217;s role in revolutionizing financial services and enabling global operations from Nairobi. Read it <a class=\"waffle-rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebanker.com\/BitPesa-eases-FX-pain-in-Africa-1514883632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Rossiello, founder and CEO of BitPesa, discusses how her company uses Bitcoin and blockchain technology to address foreign exchange (FX) challenges in African markets. BitPesa, a digital FX brokerage, facilitates B2B payments across six sub-Saharan countries and is licensed in the UK. The company provides liquidity and competitive FX solutions, using Bitcoin to lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":4,"featured_media":9024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[682,258,177,585,586,400,926,927,355,925],"class_list":["post-9023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aza-news","tag-african-markets","tag-b2b-payments","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitpesa","tag-blockchain","tag-elizabeth-rossiello","tag-financial-services-innovation","tag-fx-challenges","tag-liquidity","tag-regulatory-hurdles"],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023","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=9023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}