Monthly Archives: August 2021

Trials and tribulations of going against the grain | Dylan Bourguignon, CEO of SO-SURE


Investors’ and advisors’ mantra is “focus on only one segment of the value chain”. Those are wise words… Unfortunately, when you’ve seen up close-up the root causes of the insurance sector’s failure to gain the consumer’s trust, you realise it …

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Iggy Bassi, Founder and CEO, Cervest | Q&A


What was your vision for founding Cervest? Tell us more about how Climate Intelligence plays into this. The idea for Cervest was conceived as I was operating my sustainable agribusiness company in Ghana. Although well-funded, we had no way to assess …

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Apple’s ‘Buy now pay later’ | Clever innovation or symptom of a developing fintech market?


Apple is typically ‘first’ in terms of category defining products and services. They know what the consumer wants and needs well before the consumer does. But in this case they are comfortable slotting in as a fast follower. Klarna and …

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