Inside Interswitch’s Journey: From Pioneering Payments to Shaping Africa’s Fintech Future
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Inside Interswitch’s Journey: From Pioneering Payments to Shaping Africa’s Fintech Future

July 22, 2025
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In 2002, long before “fintech” became a buzzword in Africa, one Nigerian engineer saw a broken financial system and envisioned a seamless digital payments network. That engineer, Mitchell Elegbe, would go on to found Interswitch, the company that built the rails for Nigeria’s electronic payments ecosystem and became a blueprint

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