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Adedeji Olowe has spent years pushing Nigeria's financial system toward greater openness. Through Lendsqr and his work with Open Banking Nigeria, he has advocated for an ecosystem in which financial data can move securely between institutions with a customer's permission. That vision became increasingly relevant as Nigeria developed its formal open-banking framework, potentially transforming how fintechs access account information and build financial products. Olowe belongs on the Borderless 100 because open banking tackles a less visible but fundamental border — the walls between financial institutions. If African consumers are ever to have genuinely portable financial identities, access and services, data interoperability will be one of the foundations.