Renowned worldwide as the gateway between East and West and positioned at the forefront of technology innovation, Istanbul is set to be a beautiful and relevant backdrop to host the world’s most exciting payments event.
Sibos is an annual conference, exhibition and networking event organised by SWIFT for the financial industry.
Sibos 2014 will take place at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center from 29 September to 2 October.
The Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), in cooperation with the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (CBTT), will host the 2014 Global Policy Forum (GPF) 9-11 September 2014 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The agenda and additional Forum details are currently under development. News and updates will be made available in the near future.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) are important engines of growth and job creation around the world. However, access to finance, especially the lack of innovative financial products, represents one of the greatest challenges for SME in developing and emerging markets. SME are often too small to attract the interest of commercial banks or investors, but too large to benefit from microfinance products. Until now, only a few scalable solutions to support this “missing middle” of the economy have been found.
AZMJ is pleased to announce the 2015 Cracking the Nut conference to take place in Lusaka, Zambia on March 2-3, 2015. The two-day learning event will highlight innovations in the development of rural and agricultural markets and financial inclusion, amid global climate change. The conference will bring together top industry leaders from food companies, financial institutions, investors, donors, governments and international development organizations.
The Conference will showcase competitively selected best practices through focused themes:
The theme of the 3rd African Women’s Economic Summit is: “African Women Realising Africa’s Economic Potential”. Organized by New Faces New Voices and the African Development Bank, this biennial event brings together key stakeholders in the financial sector throughout the continent, as well as influential global leaders, to look at how to put women at the centre-stage of the African finance and economic development agenda to realize Africa’s potential.
The 2014 Inter-American Awards for Financial and Entrepreneurial Innovation are organized by the MIF, a member of the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) Group. The nominations call for innovative and efficient organizations that focus their work on either of the two categories:
The black swan theory provides an interesting way of looking at the business world.But for many enterprenuers and corporate leaders, this theory - which describes an event that comes as a surprise and has a major effect - yet to be ingrained in their way of life. A black swan has landed into the Kenyan telecommunications market in the form of Equity Bank’s planned roll out of Thin SIM technology through its wholly owned subsidiary Finserve Africa.
As new players and revolutionary technologies cause disruption in the payments space, payments processors, now more than ever, must look for ways to gain a competitive edge. Offering competitively priced processing rates is no longer enough to gain new customers. Given the technological innovation that has been occurring across the merchant services industry, merchants are now expecting more from their processors than payments processing alone.
The next ten years will see more disruption and innovation in the global financial services space than in the past hundred, according to Brett King, founder of the mobile-only Moven bank. Digital and mobile adoption, and internet and social media spur dramatic changes in customer behaviors and expectations that are shaking the industry. What are the new drivers of the banking experience? How are the rules of engagement changing? How are banks coping with the four phases of disruptive change?
