25 JUNE 2026  

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08:30-09:00

 REGISTRATION & WELCOME COFFEE

• Arrival, badges and welcome coffee

• Early networking and introductions

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09:00-09:10

 WELCOME ADDRESS

• Opening remarks and overview of the day

• How the networking and Q&A will run

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09:10-09:15

 CHAIRMEN OPENING ADDRESS

• Key priorities for 2026: interoperability, trust, compliance, and scalable innovation

• Setting the scene for payments + RegTech balance across the programme

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09:15-09:40

 OPENING KEYNOTE SPEECH + Q&A

 Payments in Africa 2026: From Growth to Infrastructure Maturity ​

• Interoperability and instant payments: what’s improving and what’s still fragmented

• Cross-border enablement under AfCFTA: settlement, FX, and compliance realities

• Where banks, fintechs and telcos must collaborate to scale safely

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09:40-10:10

PANEL DISCUSSION + Q&A

The Evolving Landscape of Digital Payments in Africa

• Mobile money and wallet ecosystems: next phase of value and monetisation

• Merchant acceptance and QR rails: driving everyday use cases

• Consumer protection and dispute handling at scale

 

10:10-10:40

PANEL DISCUSSION + Q&A

Open Banking → Open Finance:

Transitioning Toward a Commercially Driven Ecosystem

• From policy to product: how to commercialise open data and API access

• Consent, liability, and secure data-sharing standards

• Use cases: payments initiation, lending, affordability, and SME growth

 

10:40-11:10

NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK 

Networking and partner conversations

 

11:10-11:40

PANEL DISCUSSION + Q&A

Combating Fraud in Mobile Money & Wallet-Based Payments

• Scams, social engineering, and account takeovers: what’s rising in 2026

• Real-time fraud controls: behavioural analytics, device intelligence, and step-up verification

• Collaboration models: telcos, banks, fintechs and regulators sharing signals safely

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11:40-12:05

KEYNOTE SPEECH + Q&A

Transforming Through RegTech:

Defining Organisational Priorities and ROI for 2026​​

• How organisations prioritise resources to tackle compliance hurdles

• Metrics that matter: efficiency, risk reduction, false positives, and audit readiness

• Building effective collaboration between financial institutions and RegTech providers

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12:05-12:35

KEYNOTE SPEECH + Q&A

Innovation Through SupTech in Africa: The Regulator’s Toolkit

• Key SupTech trends: data pipelines, analytics, and smarter supervision

• How regulators are using SupTech to supervise payments and detect anomalies

• What financial institutions must prepare for: reporting, data quality, and governance

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12:35-13:00

PANEL DISCUSSION + Q&A

Digital Assets, Stablecoins & Tokenisation:

Payments Impact and Regulation​

• Where stablecoins help (and where they don’t): settlement, remittances, and treasury

• Managing market and operational risk and controls for digital-asset rails

• Regulatory frameworks: balancing innovation, consumer protection and integrity

 

13:00-14:00

 NETWORKING LUNCH

Hosted networking lunch and informal roundtable conversations

 

14:00-14:30

PANEL DISCUSSION + Q&A

Financial Crime, AML & Investigations:

Smarter Controls Without Slowing Payments​​

• Modern AML for faster payments: risk-based monitoring and better alert quality

• Sanctions screening challenges in high-volume environments

• Digital forensics and evidence: building cases that stand up to scrutiny

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14:30-14:55

FIRESIDE CHAT + Q&A

Cybersecurity & Operational Resilience for Payment Ecosystems​

• Protecting sensitive data across cloud, APIs and third parties

• Incident response playbooks: tabletop readiness and crisis communications

• Security-by-design across onboarding, authentication and settlement

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14:55-15:25

PANEL DISCUSSION + Q&A

The New Kid on the Block: Agentic AI in Payments​

• Reimagining workflows: intent capture, scoped authorisation, agentic execution

• Autonomous settlement: validating agent identity, applying fraud policy, logging rich metadata

• Where agentic AI will struggle: governance, liability, and explainability

 

15:25-15:45

NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK

Refreshments and networking

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15:45-16:15

PANEL DISCUSSION + Q&A

Identity, Biometrics & Authentication: Secure, Convenient, Inclusive​

• Behavioural biometrics and step-up authentication in low-friction journeys

• Digital ID and verification: improving onboarding outcomes and reducing fraud

• Regulatory refinement: privacy, consent and responsible use of biometrics​​

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16:15-16:30

CHAIRMEN CLOSING COMMENTS

• Key takeaways and next steps

• Thank you to sponsors, speakers and attendees

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16:30-18:00

NETWORKING DRINKS RECEPTION

​Closing drinks reception for informal introductions and follow-up discussions

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