{"id":48212,"date":"2022-08-05T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=48212"},"modified":"2022-10-13T12:22:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T11:22:33","slug":"unleashing-the-potential-of-financial-technology-through-digital-adoption-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2022\/08\/05\/unleashing-the-potential-of-financial-technology-through-digital-adoption-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerating Financial Inclusion surfing the Wave of Digital Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Accra, Ghana to host the 6th<\/sup> Edition Connected Banking<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The West African financial sector has been witnessing a wave of digital innovation that has fuelled services and applications that had the potential to really shake up the banking sector. Banks, Fintechs, and financial institutions have been harnessing digital solutions designed to serve touchless and remote banking, which has unlocked opportunities for the millions of digitally connected diaspora that remains formally unbanked but economically active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Central Banks in the region have been implementing policies to meet next-gen requirements of the evolved banking customer, this by analysing the challenges and successes of regions that have championed financial inclusion. The sector has also been adopting automated banking systems, advanced mobile money platforms, tailored credit and digitized lending facilities, and crypto-currencies for this promising market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this as a driver The International Center for Strategic Alliances (ICSA)<\/strong>, organizers of the Leading Banking summit Connected Banking 2022- (Formerly Africa\u2019s Digital Banking Summit). is all set to go live with the 6th<\/sup> Edition Connected Banking West Africa, which is themed as \u201cAccelerating Financial Inclusion Through Digital Adoption\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Two-day Summit will witness inputs by leaders and experts from the Banking Industry. The Summit goes live, on the 15th<\/sup> and 16th<\/sup> of November 2022 in Accra, Ghana<\/strong> with a concurrent virtual stream with almost 350+ delegates in attendance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Summit will witness insights and inputs from leaders like Dr. Maxwell Opoku-Afari from Bank of Ghana; Abena Osei-Poku from Absa Bank; Victor Yaw Asante from FBN Bank Ghana; Ndungu Thairu from Consolidated Bank of Ghana; Adesola Adeduntan from First Bank of Nigeria<\/strong> and many more who will touch upon key areas like Crafting a Cashless\/Cash-lite Economy; Digital Wallets and Digital Lending; Security \u2013 An all pervasive model; The Digital Only Model \u2013 Trend and Challenges; Synergies Between traditional FIs and Telecoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Connected Banking 2022<\/strong> historically has been bringing together the best minds from leading institutions to engage in an open, constructive dialogue with peers, industry subject matter experts and policy czars, and this year promises to be even better and bigger. Connected Banking will offer latest and actionable insights, networking opportunities, a chance to learn from the best in the business, and get ahead of the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find us at:\u00a0https:\/\/connected-banking.com\/wa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LinkedIn \u2013\u00a0https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/showcase\/connectedbanking<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact us:\u00a0mohammed@intercsa.com<\/a>\u00a0or 44 20 3808 8625<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accra, Ghana to host the 6th Edition Connected Banking The West African financial sector has been witnessing a wave of digital innovation that has fuelled services and applications that had the potential to really shake up the banking sector. Banks, Fintechs, and financial institutions have been harnessing digital solutions designed to serve touchless and remote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":48203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[565,172,13576,275,13584,262],"tags":[1793,706,31,14148,2814,389,15439,643,1019,233],"class_list":["post-48212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-finance","category-events","category-finance","category-intelligent-technology-newsletter","category-tech","category-used","tag-banking","tag-connectivity","tag-digital","tag-digital-adoption","tag-digital-connectivity","tag-digital-transformation","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-innovation","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50476,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48212\/revisions\/50476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}