Blog
Writing by Anslem Oshionebo on fintech, AI, payments, corporate strategy, finance, upstream oil and gas, entrepreneurship and the immigrant experience.
2026
- Financing Nigeria's Upstream Oil and Gas: Why Technical and Financial Diligence Must Meet Anslem Oshionebo, MD/CEO of Haricot Energies, on why upstream oil and gas deals in Nigeria succeed only when engineering and finance are tested together.
- Nigeria's Fintech Regulation: What Founders Need to Know Anslem Oshionebo on the regulators, licences and compliance obligations every fintech founder building in Nigeria should understand.
- Fraud in the Age of AI: Deepfakes, Synthetic Identities and What CFOs Should Do Anslem Oshionebo, Certified Fraud Examiner, on deepfake payment scams, synthetic identities and the controls CFOs should put in place now.
- Stablecoins and the Future of African Remittances Anslem Oshionebo on whether regulated stablecoins can cut the cost of sending money to Africa, and what still stands in the way.
- AI for Finance Teams: Where It Helps in Close, Audit and Reporting Anslem Oshionebo, CPA and former PwC technical accounting professional, on where AI genuinely helps finance teams and where human judgment still decides.
- AI in Debt Recovery: How Machine Learning Finds Debtors and Assets Anslem Oshionebo, CEO of Tenaza Asset Recovery & Intelligence, explains how AI changes skip tracing, asset tracing and debt collection for lenders.
- Why Sending Money Home Still Costs Too Much, and What Will Change It Anslem Oshionebo on why remittances to Africa remain the world's most expensive, where the cost really comes from, and the technologies bringing it down.
2021
- Africa's Role in Fintech Anslem Oshionebo on how Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Egypt became fintech hubs built on mobile phones and financial inclusion.
- How Fintech Generates Profit Anslem Oshionebo explains how fintech companies make money across crowdfunding, logistics and personal finance platforms.
- Ep. 5 of Challenges of an Immigrant Episode 5 of Anslem Oshionebo's Challenges of an Immigrant series: acceptance, sharing your culture and self-promotion in Western workplaces.
- Ep. 4 of Challenges of an Immigrant Episode 4 of Anslem Oshionebo's Challenges of an Immigrant series: leaving the comfort zone and building trust in informal work settings.
- How Is Fintech Changing the Financial World? Anslem Oshionebo on how fintech improves access to financial services, brings transparent pricing and draws in large companies.
- Challenges of an Immigrant: Ep. 3 Episode 3 of Anslem Oshionebo's Challenges of an Immigrant series: drawing on inner strength and looking beyond your own community.
- Anslem Oshionebo, Fintech Professional and Entrepreneur, Based in Dallas, Texas Profile of Anslem Oshionebo: Dallas-based fintech professional, engineer, FCA, CPA, Certified Fraud Examiner and community volunteer.
- #ChallengesOfAnImmigrant Ep. 2 Pt. 2 Episode 2 part 2 of Anslem Oshionebo's Challenges of an Immigrant series: accepting the inevitable, patience and joining a community.
- How Covid-19 Has Affected Immigrants Anslem Oshionebo on how the Covid-19 pandemic affected immigrants in the United States: travel restrictions, jobs, healthcare and detention.
- #ChallengesOfAnImmigrant: Ep. 2 Episode 2 of Anslem Oshionebo's Challenges of an Immigrant series: language, housing, work, status and staying engaged when it is hard.