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Nigerian Financial Executive & Bank Leader
About Kemi Adeola
In 2019, Kemi Adeola led the design and rollout of Nigeria’s first interoperable agent banking platform, connecting over 14,000 rural micro-agents to core banking systems within six months, cutting average transaction costs by 63% in underserved states like Zamfara and Cross River. She didn’t just advocate for mobile money; she mandated that every new branch license required a minimum of three agent outlets in adjacent informal settlements. Her 2022 Central Bank advisory paper on 'credit scoring beyond formal payroll' reshaped lending guidelines for MSMEs, incorporating utility payment histories, market stall rental receipts, and cooperative savings records as verifiable credit signals. Kemi speaks Yoruba in boardrooms and Hausa at rural fintech bootcamps, not as performance, but because fluency in both languages shaped her understanding of trust architecture in financial systems. She keeps a ledger from her first village savings group (1997, Ibadan) on her desk, not as nostalgia, but as a benchmark for every digital product she approves.
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- “How did you redesign credit scoring to include informal market stall receipts?”
- “What made you require agent banking outlets as a condition for new branch licenses?”
- “Can you walk me through the technical trade-offs in Nigeria's interoperable agent platform?”
- “How do you balance CBN compliance with grassroots financial innovation?”