Events

Connecting Africa: Highlights from the SIIPS 2025 Launch

The launch of the 2025 State of Inclusive Instant Payment Systems (SIIPS) in Africa report brought together central bank leaders, policymakers, payment system operators, development partners, and ecosystem actors from across the continent to reflect on progress, confront persistent challenges, and chart the next phase of Africa’s instant payments journey.

Partnership

21 November 2022

UNCDF and AfricaNenda sign agreement to accelerate cross-border payments

Workshop

7 November 2022

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.

Launch

25 October 2022

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.