Aakkio Consulting helps individuals and organizations in Financial Services (Lending), summon the insights, systems and strategy they need to grow smarter, faster and profitably
Born from Accio — the summoning spell — Aakkio means to call forth potential. We bring that idea to lending: summoning knowledge, growth, and transformation through strategy, learning, and community.
Each offering under Aakkio exists to help you summon something essential
Explore our carefully curated online courses to learn what drives modern lending and how to build lending products or businesses that are sustainable and profitable.
Access a marketplace of free, ready-made templates and frameworks across all sectors or lending and get your products, processes, or plans standardised in seconds.
Get clarity. Talk to experts across all sectors of lending and ask any questions or request for their insights on your strategies, products or any challenge you're facing.
Setting up a new lending business? Get everything you need to go go-live in one place. Auditing or rebuilding your strategy or processes? Get tailored consulting and training for teams.
The Academy for Modern Lending
The Aakkio Academy offers robust, impactful courses on lending, collections, growth, and financial operations, designed for professionals building the future of finance.
This course breaks lending down to its core, covering lending principles, key models, revenue drivers, and how to balance growth with profitability to align your short and long term lending strategy with your goals.
Risk is central to lending. This course covers how lenders assess, price, and control credit risk, using credit policies, scoring models, and risk-adjusted pricing to protect against losses while supporting growth.
This course covers the end-to-end process of building lending products from strategy and PRDs to testing and iteration so you can launch compliant, functional, and commercially successful offerings.
This course explores how to design and scale effective collections right from product design, covering recovery strategies, performance tracking, and digital tools through practical frameworks and case studies.
This course covers go-to-market strategy, acquisition metrics, and ROI tracking, helping you optimize campaigns and drive sustainable portfolio growth. The course also helps you identify and track metrics that matter to profit.
This course teaches you how to drive growth through digital marketing, covering high-converting campaigns, SEO strategy, paid vs. organic channels, and performance tracking to compound results.
This course shows how to build and manage high-performing lending teams, aligning structure, incentives, and culture to drive productivity and results across different units in a Financial Institution
This course unpacks how treasury, reconciliation, bookkeeping, and reporting work together to protect and grow your bottom line. You’ll learn how to build financial controls, automate tasks, and prepare accurate reports.
This course covers the legal, regulatory, and governance foundations of lending from contracts and KYC/AML to data privacy and audit readiness so your business stays compliant and future-ready.
Access ready-made templates, playbooks, and frameworks that save hours of guesswork, from credit scoring sheets to collection call scripts and financial dashboards.
Get Clarity, Not Opinions
Ask verified experts in lending, risk, and business operations. Schedule a quick consultation or submit a specific question and get answers backed by experience.
Oke is a senior fintech executive and lending expert with over a decade of experience building, scaling, and advising credit-led businesses on financial products across Africa using practical, execution-driven frameworks grounded in real-world lending and embedded finance experience.
Simisola is an accomplished financial services leader with over a decade of experience in sales, business development, and strategic partnerships. She excels at designing processes that drive business growth and expansion and believes that people are at the core of success.
Omoniyi is a seasoned Credit and Risk Management professional with extensive expertise in designing and implementing credit policies, portfolio management frameworks, and enterprise risk governance across the financial services sector.
When Your Team Needs Transformation, Not Theory
Aakkio works with organizations to modernize credit, improve collections, and embed operational intelligence through custom consulting and team learning.
Our advisory services combine strategic insight with technical depth across credit, product, data and technology to help you seign scalable lending models and refine product strategy
Each program is built around your organization’s goals, bridging strategy, operations, and execution to turn learning into measurable business transformation.
Transform the way your organization executes. We distill proven strategies, data insights, and operational expertise into bespoke playbooks.
Our capability audits benchmark skills, uncover inefficiencies, and reveal strategic opportunities to strengthen your organization’s overall effectiveness.
Aakkio Circle is a private community of professionals shaping the next era of lending and growth. Share wins, swap ideas, and stay inspired.
Working with Aakkio completely changed how our credit team thinks about lending strategy. Before, we were reacting to defaults, now we can anticipate and to a large extent, mitigate some of them
Alex A., Head of Product - Digital LenderI recently had to set up a product and credit risk function at a new lending startup and the courses and templates from Aakkio gave me a solid foundation to build on.
Grace K., COO - Micro LenderMid last year, I realized my team needed grounding in the fundamentals of lending to help them make better decisions in product design and operational processes. Aakkio came in and trained the team and the technical expertise is significantly improved
Babatunde, CPO - Microfinance Bank