Africa’s Fintech Revolution: Mobile Money, Soft POS, and the Next Billion

Africa’s Fintech Revolution: Mobile Money, Soft POS, and the Next Billion

Published: June 6, 2025

Duration: 34:08

In This Episode

This week’s episode of Breaking Banks brings you insights from Cape Town, South Africa, and the Circle of Fintech event hosted by Crossfin. Africa accounts for a remarkable 70% of mobile money accounts globally, and over the past decade, fintech and mobile money have brought 1.1 billion Sub-Saharan Africans into the formal financial services system..

In the episode, Brett King is joined by Dean Sparrow and Anton Gaylard, Co-Founders of Crossfin to talk about next gen financial services infrastructure emerging from South Africa and extending across the planet. They explore the evolution of fi...