{"id":21158,"date":"2025-09-22T08:46:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afis.africa\/sb_session\/panel-regulatory-passporting-the-missing-link-to-smoothing-cross-border-compliance-and-sparking-innovation\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:39:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:39:53","slug":"panel-regulatory-passporting-the-missing-link-to-smoothing-cross-border-compliance-and-sparking-innovation","status":"publish","type":"sb_session","link":"https:\/\/www.afis.africa\/en\/sb_session\/panel-regulatory-passporting-the-missing-link-to-smoothing-cross-border-compliance-and-sparking-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic Roundtable | Regulatory passporting: The missing link to smoothing cross-border compliance and sparking innovation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Access via sign-up on the event app or by invitation only. English-French translation available.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 54 jurisdictions and disjointed compliance regimes: Africa\u2019s fragmented regulatory landscape continues to slow the expansion of financial innovation. Licensing a fintech in multiple countries can cost up to $2 million per market, while divergent KYC, AML, and data rules impede digital finance from scaling across borders. Regulatory passporting &#8211; where one license grants multi-market access &#8211; could cut entry barriers and operating costs, with a pilot between Ghana and Rwanda showing promise. But will countries outside regional blocs like WAEMU, and CEMAC have the appetite to strike similar deals? How can passporting unlock smarter, more coordinated supervision?\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>Key points:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ghana-Rwanda deal: How did it come about &#038; what are the expectations?<\/li>\n<li>What do fintechs, telcos &#038; digital banking innovators hope to see in a fully functional regulatory passport?<\/li>\n<li>Which platforms can drive passporting forward, and how can regulators protect their home market fintechs?\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","evenement-salon":[132],"class_list":["post-21158","sb_session","type-sb_session","status-publish","hentry","evenement-salon-132"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Strategic Roundtable | Regulatory passporting: The missing link to smoothing cross-border compliance and sparking innovation? - The African Financial Summit Platform<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afis.africa\/en\/sb_session\/panel-regulatory-passporting-the-missing-link-to-smoothing-cross-border-compliance-and-sparking-innovation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Strategic Roundtable | Regulatory passporting: The missing link to smoothing cross-border compliance and sparking innovation? - The African Financial Summit Platform\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Access via sign-up on the event app or by invitation only. 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