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Margot and Alexia founded Your Juno in 2020 with the goal to close the gender gap in financial literacy.

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They have developed a “Duolingo of Money” app, offering easy-to-digest courses on personal finance topics such as investing, salary negotiation or purchasing a home to help women and non-binary people gain financial confidence.

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After raising over £2 million to build the platform and accumulating 25,000 users in its first few months, the sister duo was named Forbes 30 under 30.

Nina is the founder and CEO of Bloom Money, a fintech company that empowers diaspora communities with tools to build generational wealth.A seasoned speaker, moderator, and panellist, she is passionate about delivering technology that can better customer’s financial lives.

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She is a recipient of the Tech Women 100 award and proudly sits on the Innovate Finance Women in FinTech Power List.

Gwera is a fintech and web3 expert with an interest in where both areas intersect and what kind of impact it allows.

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Gwera subscribes to the Crypto Mullet school of thought that sees fintech in the front facing user experience and crypto powering the back end. After spending time in the trenches with her own African cross-border payments venture, she joined UK neobank Monzo to scale their financial crime operations and internal product as the company grew from 100k to 4M customers, obtained a banking licence and expanded to the US.

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Gwera’s global expertise comes from her time at fintech consultancy 11:FS, where she worked with neobanks, advised fintechs, regulators and incumbents on building truly digital financial services.

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At 11:FS, she co-created the consultancy’s web3 advisory business that worked with leading crypto-native organizations, fintechs, regulators and global banks.Gwera founded Women Who Build Africa and also hosts crypto@scale, Africa’s first crypto podcast focused on the utility of crypto.

Madhvi has a decade of experience working in international news and financial technology, and manages content and the editorial team at the major fintech news platform Finextra. She is also a proud member of the Women in FinTech Powerlist 2020 Standout 35.

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A fintech journalist and commentator she's covered a variety of issues from fund-raising start-ups to crypto, to feminism and equality within finance.