Standard Chartered's inaugural Digital Banking, Innovation and Fintech Festival takes place on November 3 & 4
The event will come off on the 3rd and 4th November 2021 at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra
As part of the activities marking 125th-anniversary celebrations in Ghana, Standard Chartered is organizing a Digital Banking, Innovation, and Fintech Festival to be held on 3rd and 4th November 2021 at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra under the theme “Shaping the next phase of Ghana’s Financial Technology Landscape for the 21st Century.”
This high-level event will bring together local and international players in the Fintech ecosystem, seasoned experts, and practicing Fintech innovators to engage and share insights on how to adopt, leverage, and scale digitization, innovation, and technology within the financial sector.
His Excellency the Vice President of Ghana, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia will give a keynote address on an opening day outlining among other things, the government’s plan to continue setting Ghana apart as the true digital hub of Africa with a robust digitized financial technology ecosystem.
This event is part of Standard Chartered’s activities to mark its 125th-anniversary celebrations in Ghana and an apt platform to showcase Ghana’s digital infrastructure and the great strides the country has made in its national digitalization journey.
The hybrid mode event will be held over two days - 3rd and 4th November 2021 – and will see other notable leaders of the industry attend including; Hon. Ken Ofori-Atta - Minister of Finance, Ghana, Hon. Ursula Owusu Ekuful - Minister of Communication & Digitalisation, Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison – Governor, Bank of Ghana, Sunil Kaushal – CEO, Africa & Middle East, Standard Chartered PLC, Alex Manson – Member, SC Ventures, and many more.
In addition, a great lineup of insightful panel sessions is planned over the two days.
The sessions will explore the impact and opportunities of the increasingly robust and digitized financial ecosystem and the lessons we can learn from Ghana’s digitization journey so far. Participants will also discuss how financial sustainability, innovation, and technology can maximize participation in addition to how to best leverage digital banking, tokenization, and trust corridors to lift African trade flows.
The Digital Banking, Innovation and Fintech Festival has been organized in collaboration with the Central Bank of Ghana (BoG), SC Ventures, and Enterprise Singapore.