The ‘AI Bank’ and the disrupter eyeing full Africa coverage by 2030 – Everything you need to know about the AFIS 2025 Awards winners
Revenue growth, pan-African expansion and advancing Africa’s sports and creative industries helped the 2025 AFIS Awards winners stand out to a cross-sector jury of their peers. Jury members included senior bank executives, insurance regulators, journalists and industry consultants. Among them were Soha El-Turky, Deputy CEO & Executive Board Member of the National Bank of Egypt […]
‘Understand and live’ with AI & Insurtech before pretending to regulate, CIMA chief urges Africa’s insurance authorities
Before setting rules, insurance regulators must live with AI tools long enough to understand their real-world behaviour, says the head of the supranational body setting insurance rules across 14 mostly Francophone West and Central African countries. Machine learning, AI and GenAI are poised to transform insurance distribution and risk modelling. South Africa’s Old Mutual has […]
Where is Africa’s financial industry headed? – Six early AFIS-Deloitte Barometer insights
Initial findings from the upcoming African Financial Industry Barometer reveal where hundreds of Africa’s banking, fintech, and capital markets executives see AI having the biggest potential impact – and the regulatory gaps they want addressed most urgently. The Barometer co-authors, Deloitte and AFIS, unveiled preliminary findings of the 5th edition of the Barometer at AFIS […]
‘A new chapter for a sovereign Africa’: Minister Nadia Fettah says the continent must transform its capital to power
External dependency is not a viable development strategy. Africa financial future lies in mobilising African savings, according to the high-level speakers at AFIS 2025’s opening ceremony. Held under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, the 2025 Africa Financial Summit (AFIS) in Casablanca on 3 & 4 November brought together over 1,250 leaders and policymakers. ‘Africa does not need […]