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The discussion will focus on finding a practical balance between innovation and oversight, strengthening collaboration between regulators and industry, and ensuring that emerging technologies can be adopted responsibly across Africa\u2019s financial ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key discussion points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Balancing innovation and regulation:<\/strong> How can regulators create frameworks that encourage AI and cloud adoption without stifling financial innovation?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Managing emerging risks:<\/strong> Addressing data privacy, cybersecurity, AI governance, operational resilience, and third-party\/cloud risks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Building regulatory collaboration:<\/strong> Strengthening dialogue and cooperation between regulators, financial institutions, and technology providers to develop responsive, future-ready regulation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","evenement-salon":[250],"class_list":["post-466408","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>AWS Executive Forum: Regulating Financial Innovation in the Age of AI and Cloud - 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\/placeholder-ericsson-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AWS Executive Forum: Regulating Financial Innovation in the Age of AI and Cloud - The African Financial Summit Platform\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Access by invitation only. 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