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OKO Finance (Mali): What Nine Years of Silence Revealed

Asili Africa
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This is the story of OKO Finance. Simon Schwall, and two co-founders barely on the record — Raphael Haziza the actuary, Shehzad Lokhandwalla the CTO. A 2019 pilot in Mali with 450 farmers, Allianz underwriting, Orange Money paying out on a parametric trigger — a rainfall satellite crossing a threshold, no adjuster in the field. Twenty thousand CFA in, thirty thousand CFA out, automatically.

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