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Absent policy co-creation platforms, scarce \ufb01ntech-central bank dialogue and sparse regulatory guidance top concerns. As do slow approvals and policy blind spots, primarily in\u00a0cross-border payments and stablecoins, are also among the main concerns. Fintechs feel they are not engaged as seriously on the same basis as banks despite Africa hosting the fastest \ufb01ntech market globally, projected to reach set to hit $65bn by 2030. Most central banks want to collaborate and champion \ufb01ntech progress, but a \ufb02ood of new digital actors, some with gaps in KYC, fraud prevention and AML controls &#8211; partly explains their guarded stance. The roundtable brings together central banks and \ufb01ntechs to reverse\/bridge the innovator-rulemaker disconnect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Policy co-creation: Building an open-door policy, an online central bank engagement hub and a regulator-endorsed body to aggregate fintech perspectives<\/li>\n<li>How can licensing gateways, sandboxes, shared compliance tools and &#8220;Suptech&#8221; shorten fintechs&#8217; time-to-market while reinforcing consumer safeguards?<\/li>\n<li>Which regulatory ambiguities and blind spots should be priorities for future fintech-central bank engagements?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","evenement-salon":[250],"class_list":["post-463585","sb_session","type-sb_session","status-publish","hentry","evenement-salon-250"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Disrupters Club Roundtable | Optimising fintech-central bank engagement - 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\/disrupters-club-roundtable-optimising-fintech-central-bank-engagement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Disrupters Club Roundtable | Optimising fintech-central bank engagement - 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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