The theme of this year’s leadership forum is “Pathways to digital financial inclusion and cash-lite economies.”

Key themes include:

• How mobile money contributes to achieve financial inclusion, stability, and integrity;
• Regulatory approaches that have proved successful in enabling mobile money markets;
• Proportional risk-based due diligence of mobile money customers;
• Next generation mobile financial services; and
• The technology solutions behind the delivery of mobile money products.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Prof. Ndung’u, Governor, Central Bank of Kenya, and Chair of the Africa Mobile Financial Services Policy Initiative (AMPI);
• David Porteous, Managing Director, Bankable Frontiers Associates (BFA); and
• Carlos Conesa, Secretariat, Committee on Payment and Settlement System (CPSS), Bank for International Settlements (BIS).