Carbon’s Ceci López and Kike Fashola Are Banking on Nigerian Fintech Innovation

As the fintech industry matures, more and more women leaders are driving innovation forward. Kike Fashola and Cecelia Lopez are two of them, heading up credit risk decisioning at Nigerian digital bank, Carbon. Join us as we revisit their conversation with Provenir’s Adrian Pillay, originally aired in September 2023:d more sophisticated fraud tactics, from deepfake identity forgeries to large-scale phishing campaigns. If you’ve enjoyed or benefited from some of the insights of this episode, consider leaving us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts, and let us know what you learned, found helpful, or liked most about this show!

In our first EMEA-focused episode, host Adrian Pillay sits down with digital bank Carbon’s Ceci López (Head of Decisioning) and Kike Fashola (Chief Risk Officer) to take a look at the relationship between risk and reward and the future of fintech in Nigeria.

They dig into topics like using data science to support innovation, how to drive adoption of emerging tech in an emerging market, and some of the implications we may not always think of when we talk about AI in risk management.