Fifteen Corridors. One Operator’s Perspective.
Cross-border payments across Africa don’t fail because of the idea — they fail in the execution. I write about the infrastructure, the friction, and the tools that actually hold up under volume.
15+ payment corridors · 20+ IMTO partners · Built from the field, not from a pitch deck
Recent Writing
The Three Operational Realities of Running iGaming Payments in West Africa
Most operations conversations about iGaming payments in Africa land on the same conclusion: mobile money is the winning deposit rail. It’s…
Fintech Teardown: LemFi — An Operational Deep-Dive
Operational Deep-Dive Series — #2 I run operations for a cross-border remittance company across 15 African corridors — from Sierra Leone…
Fintech Teardown: Wave Mobile Money
Operational Deep-Dive Series — #1 I run operations for a cross-border remittance company across 15 African corridors — from Sierra Leone…
The Stack
Tools I actually use to run cross-border payment operations — with honest notes on each.
Google Apps Script — Custom reconciliation automation, SOA generation, and exception tracking across partner settlement flows.
Metabase — Self-service dashboards for transaction monitoring, payout performance, and exception visibility across corridors.
n8n — Workflow automation for transaction status polling, partner notifications, and operational alerting.