• The Evolution of the payments landscape: How digital transformation Is Impacting financial services
• Shaping the future outlook of the industry to serve customers better and guide them into the next payment era
• What do banks need to improve their payments transformation strategy?
• Partnering with future-ready solution providers: Is it a must?

• Payments innovation and its impact on financial inclusion
• Is Africa ready for a cashless economy?
• Discovering the transformative impact of Mobile Money
• Dealing with stumbling blocks to digital payment adoption, such as connectivity and digital
• infrastructure
• Cultural and behavioral factors to consider in driving digital payment adoption

• Digital payment regulation and its impact on financial inclusion in Africa
• Addressing the continuing race between fast-moving innovation and the pace of regulation updates
• Transparency and the interchanging of data – subject to customers’ privacy requirements
• Finding the balance: Seizing the limitless potential of new and disruptive technologies while complying with regulation
• Should banks pivot to crypto: A look at regulatory compliance
• CBDCs development: Discussing the journey so far

Panelists:

• Dr Markie Idowu, Chief Executive Officer, Xpress Payment Solutions Ltd, Nigeria
• Monica Monaco, Managing Director, TrustEuAffairs, Belgium

• What is keeping payment leaders awake at night? Explore the key challenges with payment transformation and discover potential solutions
• What are payment leaders doing to remain competitive and innovative in a rapidly changing ecosystem?
• Where are the best opportunities to develop new solutions, win customers, and claim market share?
• How do you ensure a seamless customer experience?

Panelists:

Aminat Olatunji, Head of Payments, Access Bank, Nigeria

Wayne Cook, Executive Director: Payments Sub-Saharan Africa, J.P. Morgan, South Africa

Dennis Njau, Director Network Business & Distribution, NCBA Group, Kenya 

Chipo Mushwana, Executive Emerging Innovation & Payments, Nedbank, South Africa

• Bridging the cultural gaps: Marrying fintechs’ innovative and entrepreneurial mindset with the risk-averse and traditional culture of banks
• Banks vs. fintechs: how to balance innovation and Regulations
• How can fintechs benefit banks through partnerships?
• From disruption to collaboration: how to build a successful partnership
• Exploring gaps, challenges and opportunities

Panelists:

Kenneth Ugwuanyi, Group Head Transaction Banking, United Bank of Africa, Ghana    

Nosa Oyegun, VP Product Innovation & Strategy, Kuda, Nigeria   

Marcello Schermer, Head of International Expansion, Yoco, South Africa

Ebenezer Akinyemi, Head, Fintech Partnership & Ecosystem, Parallex Bank, Nigeria

Panelists:

Tosin Olatunji, Group Head, Corporate Operations/Deputy General Manager, Access Bank, Nigeria  

Yves Soumelong, Regional Digital Product Project Manager – CEMAC, United Bank of Africa, Cameroon

• What do customers ideally want from a digital wallet?
• What are the keys to a simple and engaging user interface?
• How important are geo-location-based offers?
• To what extent is having transaction history and loyalty points across different account providers and retailers a major attraction for customers?
• Is it now crucial for a wallet to provide a one-stop shop through which customers can run their entire lives?

Panelists:

Brian Mahlangu, Digital Product Manager: Mobile (CIB), Absa, South Africa  

Osama Abbas, D-GM Meeza Digital, Egyptian Banks Company, Egypt

• Understanding the new payment systems and their potential to transform Africa’s payment landscape
• What are the challenges that lie ahead, and how can banks overcome them?
• Examining regulatory issues and compliance landscape across the region in the era of the digital economy
• Improving interoperability between different digital payment systems to create seamless transactions across Africa
• How is globalisation impacting the instant and cross-border payments

• Comparing global perspectives: Setting the priorities for instant payments in Africa
• Offering a seamless experience – Reducing friction in domestic and cross-border payments
• What can be done to improve efficiency and transparency in cross border payments?
• Mitigating cross border fraud risk through innovative prevention strategies
• Understand the role of digital currencies in the future of cross border payments
• Improving interoperability in digital payment in Africa

Panelist:

Dennis Njau, Director Network Business & Distribution, NCBA Group, Kenya

Diederik Bruggink, Head of Payments, Digital Finance and Innovation, WSBI-ESBG, Belgium

• How is the combination of open banking with instant payments likely to affect the African market?

• Planning ahead: what will the banks and payment providers of the future look like?
• Banking-as-a-service, banking-as-a-platform, banking-as-a-marketplace: how will the adoption and economics of each model unfold?

Panelist:

Pearl Nkrumah, Executive Director, Retail & Digital, Access Bank, Ghana

Nader Abdelrazik, Co-founder and CEO, MoneyHash, United States of America

Panelists:

Dr. Babatunde Obrimah, Chief Operating Officer, Fintech Association of Nigeria 

Gbenga Omolokun, Managing Director, VFD Microfinance Bank, Nigeria 

Dr. Austin Okpagu, Managing Director, JumiaPay West Africa 

Bunmi Cynthia Adeleye, Chief Strategy Officer: Shoprite Nigeria, Retail Supermarkets Nigeria limited, Nigeria  

Abidemi Asunmo, Group Head, e-Business & Transaction Banking, Premium Bank, Nigeria

Moderator:

Dipo Alabede, Chief Executive Officer, Clane Payments, Nigeria