Notes & perspectives
Writing
The people, decisions and practical questions behind payment and trade infrastructure.
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What I Want African Payment Infrastructure to Look Like in Five Years
A practical ambition: understandable services, useful records and a clear route to resolving problems.
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What Should Change After the Viaservice Agreement?
The useful follow-up to a logistics partnership is a clearer account of traders’ costs, working capital and journeys.
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The Questions a Clearing Agent Should Be Able to Get Answered
Fees, records, support and settlement: a useful service should make these answers easy to find.
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How the Tanzania Clearing-Agent Programme Is Intended to Work
A plain-language look at the TAFFA/TACAS programme and the information an agent needs before using a service.
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Africa’s next payment breakthrough is institutional
The continent has mastered the act of moving money. The next opportunity is to connect each transaction to the institution, record and decision that give it meaning.
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What clearance costs when the paperwork is on paper
The fee is the part everyone quotes. The waiting, the rekeying and the second trip are the part that actually decides whether a small trader can make a living.