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
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…
Why Reconciliation Breaks at Scale — And How to Rebuild It Before It Takes You Down
Reconciliation is treated as an accounting task until it becomes an operational crisis. Here’s what actually breaks across African payment corridors — and how to…
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.