BOLD TALKS: Elizabeth Rossiello on Fintech Innovation & Cross Border Payments

Subscribe to our BOLD Awards YouTube Channel:    / @boldawards   BOLD Talks | Epi Ludvik and Elizabeth Rossiello, Founder and CEO of AZA Finance Welcome to BOLD Talks, where we spotlight leaders shaping the future of innovation. In this episode, Epi Ludvik sits down with Elizabeth Rossiello, Founder and CEO of AZA Finance, a pioneering fintech company transforming cross border payments and foreign exchange infrastructure across Africa and beyond. Founded in Nairobi in 2013, AZA Finance has grown into a leading market maker across every major African currency, facilitating fast, secure, and cost effective payments between frontier markets and the global economy. Through innovative platforms like TransferZero and BFX, Elizabeth and her team are helping businesses move money across borders with greater speed, transparency, and accessibility. Before founding AZA, Elizabeth worked across sub Saharan Africa as a microfinance analyst, collaborating with organizations including the Gates Foundation, Grameen Foundation, and Acumen Fund. Her unique perspective on financial inclusion, regulation, and emerging markets has helped shape one of Africa's most influential fintech success stories. In this conversation, Elizabeth shares the bold decisions behind building a fintech company in frontier markets, the realities of scaling across more than twenty countries, lessons in leadership and resilience, and her vision for the future of financial infrastructure across Africa. From payments and foreign exchange to regulation, innovation, and entrepreneurship, this episode offers a fascinating look at the systems powering the future of global finance. Know your power. be BOLD. Shape the future. #beBOLD #BOLDAwards #ElizabethRossiello #AZAFinance #Fintech #CrossBorderPayments #FinancialInclusion #AfricaTech #Innovation #boldtalks ► More BOLD Awards Instagram:   / boldawards   Twitter:   / bold_awards   LinkedIn:   / boldawards   Facebook:   / boldawardsglobal