CashlessAfrica Expo to Reward Industry Champions

The CashlessAfrica conference bid to hold March 22 – 23, 2017 will also acknowledge creativity, commitment and excellence in the digital financial services industry across Africa at the CashlessAfrica 2017 awards.

The awards honor the best of the breed across all sectors and segments covering financial technology providers, mobile network operators, financial institutions, mobile money providers, card services, financial institutions, application providers, regulators, microfinance organizations and individuals in the ecosystem in Africa and beyond.

Emmanuel   Okoegwale, Principal Associate MobileMoneyAfrica, organizer of the event, said that the award entry is open to all stakeholders in the digital financial services industry with at least one active deployment or on-going partnerships in the Africa market.

“It is open to remittance providers, financial institutions, mobile financial services providers, microfinance entities, mobile network operators, independent firms, card processors and others”.

The CashlessAfrica conference is a platform for financial services supply side actors to share their innovation, rethink their current models and gain valuable market insight of the African digital financial services market

During the main expo, leading thought leaders and panelists in the digital financial services ecosystem in Africa and beyond will address the issues around ‘The future of financial services’ at the two-day event taking place at the Lagos Oriental hotel, Lagos.

Digital disruption is shifting the balance stay of power in financial services and influencing the way, millions of people bank their money, make payments, remittances and more, in a continent where mobile phone penetration exceed bank accounts and bank cards ownership, combined.

Africa’s highly regulated financial industry now needs to adapt itself to the on-going disruptions in the Fintech space and the increasing demands of young and energetic customers which represent a significant percentage of the continent’s population.