From Fun to Business: How Fintech is changing Africa

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2. ❖ Software Developer
   ❖ Open Sourcerer
   ❖ Self-Acclaimed Developer Evangelist
   ❖ Community Builder
   ❖ Jollof Rice Ambassador
   ❖ Google Developer Expert
   ❖ Live in Lagos, Nigeria
   

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3. Building a business
   is hard. Getting
   paid should not be.
   

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4. First: Some Statistics
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   ❖ Population without a bank account - 40%
   ❖ Bank ATM per 16,000 people - 1 ATM
   

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5. First: Some Statistics
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6. First: Some Statistics
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7. The Community
   contributes to
   Businesses.
   

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8. Businesses
   contribute to the
   community.
   

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9. How?
   

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10. Let’s start with
    Communities
    

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11. Types of Communities
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    ❖ Developer Communities
    ❖ Private/Vendor Communities
    

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12. Developer Communities
    

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13. Developer Communities
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    ❖ forLoop
    ❖ Laravel Nigeria
    ❖ Angular Nigeria
    ❖ DevCenter
    ❖ Usable
    

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14. - Interaction between developer
    community members cultivate Ideas.
    - Ideas breed Products.
    - Products need to be accessible by a
    selected few or a billion users.
    

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15. Hold that thought
    for a second.
    

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16. - Hub8 needed to expand.
    - Africa is an emerging market. Massive
    population.
    - Hub8 chose Nigeria.
    - Hub8 needed to offer services to developers,
    technology enthusiasts and people needing
    an online presence.
    

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17. ..Hub8 needed a seamless solution to enable
    Nigerians pay for their services
    

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18. What did they do? - Hub8
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    ❖ Hub8 integrated RavePay
    

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19. Why RavePay? - Hub8
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    ❖ Payment via cards - Visa, MasterCard, Verve
    ❖ Payment via bank accounts
    ❖ Payment via USSD
    ❖ No additional integrations for expansion into
    South Africa, Kenya, Ghana and other African
    countries.
    

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20. Private/Vendor Communities
    

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21. Payments is People,
    and People matter.
    

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22. Private/Vendor Communities
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    ❖ Jollof Festivals
    ❖ Marketplaces
    ❖ Crowdfunded Platforms
    

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23. Case Study: MegaBet
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    ❖ Online Gaming Service
    ❖ Needed to expand to the African
    market. Got into the Nigerian scene.
    ❖ Needed a seamless way of accepting
    payments.
    URL: https://mobile.megabet.ng
    

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24. Case Study: MegaBet
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    ❖ Integrated RavePay
    ❖ Payment via cards - Visa,
    MasterCard, Verve
    ❖ Payment via bank accounts
    ❖ Payment via USSD
    

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25. Case Study: Thrivesend
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    ❖ Online Money Transfer Service offering very low
    transfer charge rates
    ❖ Send money from your card to any Nigerian
    bank account
    ❖ Local or International Visa, Mastercards
    URL: https://thrivesend.com
    

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26. Case Study: Thrivesend
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    ❖ Integrated RavePay
    ❖ Payment via cards - Visa,
    MasterCard, Verve
    

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27. Case Study - Wallet
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    Wallet.ng - Get Paid easily with just a link
    

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28. Case Study - Wallet
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    Wallet.ng - Get Paid easily with just a link
    

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29. Case Study - Wallet
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    Wallet.ng - Get Paid easily with just a link
    ❖ Payment via cards - Visa, MasterCard, Verve
    ❖ Payment via your Wallet
    

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30. Do well to send me some
    money!
    https://me.wallet.ng/unicodeveloper
    

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31. Case Study: Jollof Festival
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32. Case Study: Jollof Festival
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    ❖ Several Food Vendors present at the event
    ❖ Customers can pay with cash or on the spot bank transfers
    But, who still carries
    cash around?
    

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33. Case Study: Jollof Festival
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    ❖ Integrated RavePOS
    ❖ Vendors received payments from customers via card, bank
    account and USSD.
    ❖ Payment via Phones made easy with USSD -
    *402*MerchantID*Amount#
    Solution
    

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34. Developers, what are you
    waiting for?
    Start getting paid today!
    

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35. Quick, Secure, Fast Solution: RavePay
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    ❖ No Setup Fees
    ❖ Multi-company support
    ❖ Multi-currency support
    ❖ Transaction fees
    ❖ Rave Point of Sale
    ❖ Python, JS, Ruby, Cordova, iOS,
    Android SDKs
    URL: https://ravepay.co
    

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36. Quick, Secure, Fast Solution: RavePay
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    ❖ Rave Point of Sale
    

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37. Thank you #PyConNG
    Now, make Africa better!
    - @unicodeveloper
    

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