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Podcast: Wharton FinTech Podcast
Episode: Coen Jonker, Co-Founder of Africa’s Tyme – Fintech for Inclusion & Importance of Persistence
Description: Miguel Armaza sits down with Coen Jonker, Executive Chairman and Co-founder of Tyme, a digital banking business operating in Africa and Southeast Asia. Tyme’s flagship project is TymeBank in South Africa, which was launched in February 2019 and has since grown to over three million customers just over two years. An incredible growth!
In this episode, we discuss:
- Coen’s background and why he’s always been interested in the transformative potential of business for economic inclusion
- Idea behind TymeBank and why Coen and his co-founders decided to launch banking solutions for the unbanked in South Africa
- Decisi...