Tech Front · FinTech
FinTech Front.
Inclusion, productive credit and infrastructure-grade rails.
The challenge
Why this Front exists.
African fintech has solved enormous problems in payments and access — and is now hitting the next frontier: productive credit, cross-border infrastructure and the financial rails beneath every other sector.
The FinTech Front backs builders working with operators, regulators and ecosystem partners on the financial infrastructure the continent now needs.
Where we're focusing
Briefs we're scoping with partners.
Inclusion
Accounts, savings and protection products for the still-underserved.
Productive credit
Lending to SMEs, agriculture and other engines of real-economy growth.
Infrastructure rails
Payments, settlement and cross-border infrastructure.
Regulation & compliance
RegTech, compliance tooling and policy infrastructure.
How it runs
Six to nine months, from brief to deployment.
Challenge brief
Co-authored with sector partners who own the problem.
Cohort build
Selected teams prototype in context — not in a slide deck.
Field trial
Solutions tested with real users in real settings.
Procurement bridge
Working products handed to the partners who can buy them.
Who we're looking for
Partners that can help us build this Front.
- Banks and financial institutions
- Fintech operators
- Central banks and regulators
- DFIs and impact investors
- SME and agri-finance partners