Disrupters Club Panel | Developing a full suite of digital SME financial services beyond payments
AfDB’s former president, last year, expressed his dismay. Young entrepreneurs are departing Africa due to subdued commercial bank lending. Afreximbank, IFC and others have called for a more complete SME finance offer – comprising savings, supply-chain finance, factoring, insurance and embedded finance – to complement fintech and mobile money-led payments, and narrow Sub-Saharan Africa’s $331bn […]
Strategic Roundtable | Co-developing Africa’s digital treasury: Connecting banks, ERP and working capital in real time
Access via sign-up on the event app or by invitation only. English-French-Portuguese translation available. Digital treasury is becoming a growth area for African banks as CFOs seek to manage liquidity, payments and working capital across multiple currencies, banks and regulatory regimes. Access Bank’s PrimusPlus already combines payments, FX, cash-flow forecasting and multi-bank, multi-currency liquidity management, […]
LEAD Working Group | Putting ‘financial health’ at the heart of regulatory reform
National financial inclusion strategies – such as Kenya’s recent 2025–2028 plan- are shifting from financial access for access’s sake toward ensuring households demonstrably thrive through diverse, affordable and quality services. Closing non-bank, digital policy gaps will be central to this reorientation towards ‘financial health’. Regulators are already weighing measures that include stronger fintech Know Your […]
Conversation With | Navigating the polycrisis: How conflict, trade fragmentation & dollar diversification – are reshaping Africa’s financial landscape
War in the Middle East has “clouded the outlook” for sub-Saharan Africa, with the IMF cutting its 2026 growth forecast from 4.5% to 4.3%. It is calling for greater local-currency financing, stronger credit information systems and sufficient commercial-bank capital and liquidity buffers, while warning that banks’ growing exposure to government debt could “precipitate financial crises”. […]
Side Event EBID: Transforming West African Communities
Masterclass – ASSECO
Sidimohamed ABOUCHIKHI
Sidimohamed Abouchikhi is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Creditinfo West Africa and Creditinfo Morocco, where he also continues to lead operations as Chief Executive Officer of Creditinfo Morocco. With over 11 years of experience in financial services and data analytics, he is committed to delivering innovative, strategic solutions for clients while building strong […]
Asmae KADDOURI
Journalist at Jeune Afrique, I cover corporate finance and capital markets across Africa. Before joining the press, I worked in the banking sector, an experience that sharpens my understanding of the deals, players and dynamics shaping the continent’s economy. Trained as a lawyer and well-versed in project finance, I moderate roundtables bringing together the decision-makers […]
Lesley NDLOVU
Panel | Premium drain – Can Africa’s insurers and reinsurers attain critical size to shoulder large and speciality risks?
Premium outflows are rattling Africa’s insurance industry. Around 70-90% of premiums for speciality risks are flowing to non-African reinsurers, Afreximbank said in July. Without well-capitalised, technically skilled local insurers and reinsurers, sectors needing large, specialised cover in oil and gas, aviation and mining default to international coverage – placed offshore directly or fronted locally but […]