By Bisi Bamishe
All is set for Fintech & Financial Inclusion Roundtable 2024 taking place today in Lagos.
The event where experts are expected to discuss the role of Fintech & Financial Inclusion in Citizen Empowerment and Economic Growth, will hold at Radisson Hotel, lkeja.
The group chairman of the Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX), Dr. Umaru Kwairanga, and group managing director/CEO, Unified Payment Services Limited, Dr. Apochi Agada, will 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.
According to convener of the Roundtable, Prince Cookey, the event will 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
