Meghan McCormick

Meghan McCormick is a Ghana-based entrepreneur covering women building high-impact organizations across the African continent. She's the co-founder and CEO of Oze, a fintech working to close Africa's $331 billion small business credit gap.

Quotes

• "I believe that true innovation happens at intersections."[1]

• "Let’s think beyond payments. Payments should be the rails that support a vast array of financial products and services."[2]

• "Where we can be strengthened is in connecting more meaningfully with markets who are focused on banking and financing."[3]

• "If you can combine the ingenuity of African innovators with the experience of European bankers, you can create solutions that will give millions access to powerful financial tools."[4]

• "One of the biggest challenges is maintaining rapid growth while educating customers."[5]

• "Financial inclusion is about outcomes. It’s about what intuitive, accessible, and affordable financial tools can do to improve business performance and quality of life."[6]

• I love solving big, systemic, sticky problems. Mm. I think it’s what gets me up in the morning.[7]

• Obviously this work that we do is hard and, and underfunded in many cases. [8]

• we can get people to ideate, we can support them to build better businesses, but they’re still running into this wall of, they have no access to resources.[9]

• I enjoy and get fulfilment from working through problems that are difficult to solve, chop it off bit by bit and at the end of the day bring meaningful change. The Entrepreneurial Spirit is a part of who I am. [10]

• I would say just do it. This is the best time to start a business if you haven’t already. Get your experience now and whether you’re now starting your business or already have, it’s not too late to start using OZÉ. Go for it and make sure you have the right place and support to do it.[11]