Every year, the GSMA convenes decision makers from financial regulatory authorities and mobile network operators (MNOs) to discuss regulatory issues around digital money and financial inclusion, stimulating greater understanding and collaboration between all mobile money stakeholders globally.

The Leadership Forum aims to enhance the awareness of the role that digital currency can play in financial inclusion and economic development, and to promote the dialogue between policymakers and practitioners on the possible solutions to scale up the adoption of mobile money. Some important themes that will be explored include:

• A digital pathway to financial inclusion: what is an incremental approach to mobile money regulation?
• New actors for financial inclusion: how to regulate non-bank mobile money providers?
• Mobile money 2.0: new products, new regulatory challenges?
• The oversight of licensed mobile money providers: A discussion of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion’s (AFI) reporting and supervision guideline notes (session in collaboration with the AFI Mobile Financial Services working group).

The Leadership Forum is an invitation-only event.