Events
Events
AfricaNenda Unveils Ghana's Instant and Interoperable Payment System to African Central Banks and Payment Switches
Ghana's advanced Instant Payment solution, GhIPSS Instant Pay (GIP), took center stage during a recent learning visit organized by AfricaNenda in partnership with GhIPSS. The visit aimed to provide valuable insights into Ghana's payment system journey and foster knowledge sharing among central banks and payment switches from selected African countries. A look at the visit!
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TradeMark East Africa and AfricaNenda join forces to create financial services innovations
AfricaNenda and TradeMark East Africa (TradeMark) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding committing to collaborate towards creating digital-related solutions that will enhance financial inclusion across Eastern Africa trade environment.
Workshop
TCIB regional conference seeks collaboration for equal payments access in SADC
AfricaNenda and BankservAfrica hosted from 22 to 23 November 2023 the TCIB regional conference in Lusaka, Zambia. The meeting was an opportunity for commercial banks, fintech, regulators, and money transfer operators to engage and share learnings and experiences to advance instant and inclusive payments across the SADC region.
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Digital Public Goods for a more equitable world
“If you want to go fast go alone, if want to go far go together” the words of Honorable Minister Paula Ingabire reverberated across Carnegie Mellon University Africa Auditorium, as the Minister offically opened CyLab-Africa Summit on Digital Public Goods in Kigali, Rwanda.
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First of its kind report benchmarks instant payments in Africa and highlights how they can create opportunities and advance financial inclusion
Kigali, October 25th, 2022 – AfricaNenda, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the World Bank have released the State of Instant and Inclusive Payment Systems in Africa report (SIIPS - Africa). The report builds on extensive consultations with industry leaders and experts in digital financial services as well as MSMEs and consumers across the continent. It provides a detailed landscape of Instant Payment Systems (IPS) in Africa and highlights ways in which they can become more inclusive to leave no African behind in the digital era.
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Getting started in Côte d'Ivoire: training on instant and inclusive payment systems
More than 40 representatives of financial institutions, government agencies, telecom operators, banks and fintech from Cote d'Ivoire attended the training workshop on instant and inclusive payment systems held on September 20, 2022, at the Radisson Hotel in Abidjan.
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AfricaNenda, UNCDF and FSD Zambia collaborate with key regulatory bodies in Zambia on inclusive DFS supervision
To help African regulatory institutions navigate the fast-changing digital financial services ecosystem, AfricaNenda and its partners FSD Zambia and the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), together with other strategic payment stakeholders, organized a workshop on Inclusive Digital Financial Services Supervision and Regulation on August 16th and 17th in Lusaka, Zambia.
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AfricaNenda strengthens the capacities of ECOWAS Central Banks and West African Monetary Agency on instant and inclusive payments systems
Dakar, 20th July 2022- AfricaNenda partnered with the West Africa Monetary Agency (WAMA) to strengthen the capacities of 22 representatives of central bank officials in ECOWAS on instant and inclusive payment systems (IIPS) and their benefits for the region's economic development process. The two-day capacity-building workshop took place from 19 to 20 July, in Dakar, Senegal.
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