Addis Ababa, April 11, 2023 (FBC) – The 9th edition of the African Fintech Summit (AFTS) set to be held tomorrow at the Walter E. Washington Convention Centre, Washington DC.
According to Africa Fintech Summit (AFTS), the summit brings together regulators, policy makers, financial and technology industry executives, Fintech Founders, leading innovators, investors, and Government representatives from around the world in Walter E. Washington Convention Center, the venue that hosted the US-Africa Leaders Summit.
With participants who represent over $4.5bn in private equity and venture capital funding, the Africa Fintech Summit is the premier global initiative dedicated to financial technology growth in Africa, and provides the best opportunities for key stakeholders to share knowledge, zoom in on the trends, and opportunities shaping perspectives, and the future of fintech in Africa, AFTS has stated.
AFTS has indicated that the bi-annual summit holds each April in Washington, D.C., on the sideline of the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings, and each November in a different African city (most recently Cape Town (2022), Cairo (2021), Virtual (2020), Addis Ababa (2019) and Lagos (2018).
AFTSDC2023 will focus on the policy and regulation, US-Africa Fintech connections, Diaspora Finance, Remittance & Cross border Payment, tech talent, future of banking, mobile money growth and integration, Embedded Fintech, blockchain, Powering African Fintech via VC, intra-Africa Trade and payment infrastructure and financial inclusion among others, AFTS further indicated.
The DC Summit is backed by the strategic sponsorships of numerous prominent fintech companies including Flutterwave, Mojaloop Foundation, FonBank, and counting, AFTS added.