Peter Otobong: The software engineer who learnt to code on a ‘borrowed’ laptop

The technology was not the problem.

For Peter Otobong and his team at Fraqtion Finance, the idea was simple enough: allow people to pool money to finance real-world trade, such as a Chinese company buying lithium from Nigeria. The software could be built. The architecture could be designed. The engineers could make the system work.

But then came the questions that code could not…