Experts Set for Nigeria Fintech, Financial Inclusion Roundtable

Experts are ready to attend this year’s Nigeria Fintech and Financial Inclusion Roundtable, slated to hold April 26 in Lagos.

The experts include: Dr. Group Chairman of the Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX) Umaru Kwairanga; and Group Managing Director/CEO, Unified Payment Services Limited Dr. Apochi Agada. Both will chair and deliver the keynote address respectively at The Nigeria Fintech and Financial Inclusion Roundtable 2024 with the theme: ‘The Role of Fintech & Financial Inclusion in Citizen Empowerment and Economic Growth’.

Other expected speakers at the Roundtable include the Managing Director/CEO, HumanManager Limited, Mrs. Adekunbi Ademiluyi; Vice President, Fintech Association of Nigeria, Dr. Stanley Jacob, and Group Head of Audit, FBN Holdings Plc, Dr. Bode Oguntoke.

In a statement, the convener of the Roundtable, Prince Cookey, said the event would be a unique convergence of top executives and stakeholder groups from the banking, fintech, telecom, insurance, media community and the general public.

Cookey, who is also the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Business Journal Media Group, listed the objectives/expectations from the Roundtable to include evaluation of the growth of fintechs in the Nigerian financial system in the past 10 years, analyse the marriage & dichotomy between banks and fintechs, explore the convergence of banking, telecom and insurance in terms of financial inclusion, evaluate the challenges of fintechs and financial inclusion in Nigeria and to project the future of the two financial concepts going forward.

He said the event would be free to attend for interested professionals in the banking, fintech, telecom, capital market and insurance space, media as well as members of the general public.

He added that The Nigeria Fintech and Financial Roundtable would be an annual event going forward.