Thursday, 23 November, 2023
12 pm SAST

Africa's Digital Banking Revolution: Exploring the Trends

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Why attend

Across the African continent, mobile penetration has been facilitating an unprecedented digital banking renaissance, reshaping the core foundations of financial services as technology drives monumental shifts in the way we manage finances, transact, and grow wealth.

However, given the versatility of the region and its needs and demographics, banks seeking to keep up with this renaissance must ensure they are well-equipped to navigate key areas including USSD integration and microfinance empowerment, tailored onboarding strategies and seamless wallet integrations, shedding light on SME, business, and corporate banking needs, wealth creation, and the escalating demands in loan origination requirements.

In this exclusive webinar, “Africa's Digital Banking Revolution: Exploring the Trends”, Senior Product Director of PM and PD, Robert Wint, alongside a panel of experts will give unparalleled insight into key trends, opportunities and challenges affecting digital banking across the African continent.

The key take-aways

How USSD technology can enhance financial inclusion in Africa, making banking more accessible and user-friendly for underserved populations

How the rapid proliferation of mobile money services in Africa has reshaped the financial landscape, and the impact it has had on financial inclusion and economic growth across the continent

How banks and microfinances can collaborate to create a symbiotic relationship that significantly contributes to both economic growth and financial inclusion

How seamless integration with popular wallets like Apple Wallet can enhance the user experience and encourage digital transactions, fostering a more connected financial ecosystem

The webinar panel

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Akinlabi G. Adegoke, Group Head Commercial, Digital Banking Group | POLARIS BANK

Akinlabi brings more than fourteen years of academic & professional experience helping organisations across technology, FinTech and Banking industries, foster cutting-edge strategic partnerships, stakeholder engagements, strategy, sales and customer acquisition that increase revenue. He is an accomplished thought leader in the FinTech sector and his expertise in digital innovation and transformation has been instrumental in driving business decisions that add significant value to corporate profitability.

Akinlabi is well-known for his proven track record of successfully managing Marketing operations, Business Development And Partnerships, while ensuring an effective and efficient flow of work, customer loyalty and satisfaction. His ability to foster strong relationships and partnerships between necessary entities and stakeholders has resulted in major developments in two of Nigeria’s most recognised banks.

Akinlabi holds an Executive MBA from Hult Business School and has also earned a Post-Graduate Diploma In Digital Business, Digital Innovation/Transformation from Columbia Business School.

He has been trained by the Judges Business School: University of Cambridge on Digital Innovation and Disruption, as well as Digital Distribution; Digital Transformation Strategies. He is also certified in Building and Enhancing Sustainable Business Models for Financial Inclusion by Lagos Business School. Akinlabi has also taken Leadership courses at Harvard Business School, Boston, MA.

He is recognised as a Strategist and Business Transformation Leader with cognate experience in creating new businesses. His profound understanding in new cutting-Edge Technology, Ecosystem, Platform, and Business model spans over nine years. In addition, his proven knowledge of business development, makes him capable of enhancing the competitiveness and market dominance of your organization.

Rolf Eichweber, Head of Bank Build | OLD MUTUAL LIMITED

Experienced next generation digital banking executive (CEO), greenfield bank build expertise, NED, digital transformation advisor and Fintech entrepreneur. Co-founder of TYME(now TymeBank).

Deep experience in digital start ups and partnership ecosystem development, enhanced by having spent time on both sides of the negotiating table (Large multinationals and small start-ups).

Kayode Olubiyi, Group Head, Digital Banking | UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA

Kayode is a Product Management Professional/ IT Consultant with over 20 years’ experience supporting clients in the public, private and international organizations. His expertise cuts across business process analysis/ re-engineering, electronic business, information security management, system administration, messaging, product development and management, project management, and business development. His passionate about offering solutions that can provide gains and overall process efficiency and effectiveness to businesses. He has been involved in the development of models of operation that yield new process efficiency – gains that directly translate into a broader ability to serve.

He has worked as an IT administrator for an enterprise system, allocating resources and prioritizing enhancements to meet strategic objectives or recently as a product manager implementing a new product framework for sustainability. "Focusing on business imperatives is a core value of mine, one that I bring to every project I work on".

He has worked with 5 financial institutions in Nigeria over the past 19 years in different capacities as a Network Administrator, Information Security Administrator, System Administrator, Web Master, electronic business solution/support expert, business developer, product developer/ manager, thought leader to key donors and partners and Financial Inclusion Advocate.

His experience in business solutions implementation has significantly assisted him in demonstrating strong leadership (especially in Strategy & Business Transformation) in the areas of electronic business alignment with product design and management.

He has managed several IT, E-Business and Product Management initiatives, he is a Microsoft Certified Professional, Certified E-Business Consultant, Certified Digital Marketing Professional, ISO27001 Certified and Member, Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM).

Wasiu Popoola, Chief Digital Officer | LOTUS BANK

Fintech and Digital transformation leader with track record of team leadership to deliver innovative, fit for purpose solutions. I have demonstrated strong acumen to grow business and penetrate new markets over the years. My work experience has enriched me with robust relationship with top echelon of both public and private sector organizations in Nigeria.

Caroline Gitonga, Principal BSG Consultant | TEMENOS

• I have 15+ years of experience in the IT industry in PreSales/ Solution Engineering, Software Quality Assurance and Service Delivery.
• I have a passion for technology and as a passionate technologist, I love to connect the dots between the technical solution and the business value for customers.
• I’m skilled in Solution Engineering and in designing an end-to-end solution that demonstrates how a technical solution can bring together digital investments into an ecosystem and enable agile change and innovation.
• Experience in managing teams and complex IT projects across a wide range of customers in different geographical boundaries.
• Experience in creating and maintaining processes, standards and procedures within an IT organisation.
• Industry expertise includes: FSI, Public Sector, Healthcare, Utilities, Travel & Transportation

Specialities: Digital banking, Customer Experience, Software Quality Assurance, Solution Engineering

Robert Wint, Senior Product Director | TEMENOS

Rob is an experienced product strategist, digital and content marketer for B2B Technology and Financial Services markets. Rob is the Senior Product Director for Temenos’ Business Banking Segment, and our Infinity product portfolio. He joined Temenos in November 2016 from Barclays Bank where as Digital Marketing Director he set up and ran the retail banks Digital Marketing team and more recently as the Digital Content and Publishing Director running content and marketing across the retail and wealth websites within the Barclays Digital Banking team. He’s also run marketing and product teams for technology firms working with a wide-range of client segments, from banking to utilities, to government to travel.

His role at Temenos focuses on the front to back proiduct strategy for the SME segment, and the end to end digital capability of the Infinity portfolio, enabling sales, service and marketing digital banking and SME capability.

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