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Michael Jordaan, CEO of Bank Zero. Picture: Supplied
Michael Jordaan, CEO of Bank Zero. Picture: Supplied

Deep insight into the plumbing of banking and no legacy business model enable the latest challenger bank to offer zero fees and other canny innovations.

Bank Zero co-founder and chairman Michael Jordaan is a strange combination of brilliant geek and humble venture capitalist, which is perhaps why his magic potion of a bank is already so intoxicating to South Africans weary of high bank fees.

He speaks to FM contributor and Stuff editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak about how the bank was conceived and how it plans to shake up banking.

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