The Battle for Africa's Financial Rails: Stablecoins, Regulators, Cross Border Payments and Trade with Mimi Kufuor

About this episode

Mimi Kufour discusses the challenges and developments in Africa's financial landscape, focusing on stablecoins and cross border payments.

Episode 227 with Mimi Kufuor, Global COO of KoinKoin, a digital assets exchange and financial infrastructure company focused on solving cross border liquidity and payment challenges across Africa and other emerging markets. Mimi oversees the company's global operations across multiple jurisdictions and works closely with regulators as digital asset frameworks continue to evolve. She also serves as a Strategic Advisor to the Chamber of Digital Assets and Blockchain Innovation in Ghana, contrib...

People in this episode

Host: Terser Adamu

Guest: Mimi Kufour

Topics covered

• stablecoins
• regulators
• cross border payments
• financial infrastructure
• digital assets
• Africa

Keywords

• stablecoins
• cross border payments
• financial infrastructure
• digital assets
• Africa
• regulators
• liquidity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: KoinKoin, Chamber of Digital Assets and Blockchain Innovation

Places: Ghana

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