Experts To Discuss Role Of Fintech, Financial Inclusion In Economic Growth

Experts are set to discuss the role of Fintech & Financial Inclusion in Citizen Empowerment and Economic Growth.

The event, which will take place at the Nigeria Fintech & Financial Inclusion Roundtable 2024 will be held on Friday, April 26, 2024 in Lagos.

To this effect, the group chairman of the Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX), Dr. Umaru Kwairanga, and group managing director/CEO, Unified Payment Services Limited, Dr. Apochi Agada, would chair and deliver the keynote address respectively at the event.

Other expected speakers at the Roundtable include: managing director/CEO, HumanManager Limited, 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 is 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.

Hence, Business Journal Publisher solicited for corporate support from public and private sector institutions in Nigeria for the overall success of the event, adding that the Nigeria Fintech & Financial Roundtable would be an annual event going forward.