Fintech is a feminist issue
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However, the gap between today’s reality and tomorrow’s promise seems ever wider. Too many women remain unbanked, undercompensated, and wholly blocked from financial markets. Can technological advances in financial services be a real lever for change?
In episode #17 of Campus 10178, the ESMT Berlin podcast, we speak with Solape Akinpelu, the co-founder and CEO of HerVest, a women-focused, inclusive fintech platform enabling women to participate in key financial services in Africa. In leading the Nigeria-based social enterprise, Akinpelu and HerVest bring a gender-lens approach to traditional financial services, wielding tech innovations in the space so that women gain access to the lending, savings, credit, and investments that can transform their financial futures.
“Supporting and amplifying the role of gender initiatives and perspectives in fintech is non-negotiable.
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