The 6th annual Mobile Money & Digital Payments Africa is set to bring together over 400 experts from the entire spectrum of the industry on May 21-22 in Johannesburg, with the key speakers at the conference prioritising the ability to provide financial services to the previously unbanked.
The exhibition will feature the latest technology and services on offer by leading industry providers, including global giant Ericsson, which is the gold sponsor, Telepin Software, Wirecard AG and Panamax.
“There has been a very perceptible acceptance of financial inclusion as a measurable policy objective by regulators and acceptance as a business imperative by service providers,” said Kim Dancey, regulatory head and specialist advisor: Digital and Alternative Banking at South Africa’s First National Bank (FNB).
“The challenge is to move mobile money from being a payment instrument to an offering that is used as a money management tool.”
