Fatma is a financial services professional with 12+ years of experience in FinTech, EdTech and banking. She is passionate about empowering people and growing businesses.
You’ve heard of governments delivering food to the vulnerable, waiving utility charges or rents in government properties, minimum salaries for the unemployed, temporary part-time employment, and an increase in unemployment benefits.
In Kenya, the first time you heard fintech was probably after the launch of M-PESA in 2007. While fintech has been in existence since 1866, fintech as we know it burst onto the scene circa 2008 with pundits touting the end of brick and mortar banks.
Each one of us has, at one point, been a victim of financial stress regardless of where we are on the economic spectrum. You are or have been stressing about money.
What was certain yesterday is now ambiguous and evolving rapidly. We are operating on insufficient often conflicting information, and it feels like we’re testing the ground as we go.
With schools closed for the rest of the year, parents are looking for ways to keep their kids learning. As the primary educators, parents are taking advantage of this break to teach life skills.
For most of us, money is purely the national currency; Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania Shillings, Rwandan Francs, US Dollars, among others. Did you know that there are alternative currencies that complement the national currency?