Flutterwave collaborates with the Africa Fintech Summit as the main sponsor
The Africa Fintech Summit is pleased to announce Flutterwave as the Lead Fintech Sponsor for the 2023 Africa Fintech Summit to be held in Washington DC on April 12, 2023 and in an African city to be announced in November 2023. The sponsorship comes at on the heels of Flutterwave’s latest licenses issued in Egypt, enabling Flutterwave to be an official payment service provider in Egypt and expand its presence in MENA.
Since its inception in 2016, the Flutterwave team has been on a mission to create endless opportunities for customers and businesses in Africa and the emerging markets, and has so far processed over 400 million transactions worth over USD $25B to date across 34 countries in Africa . It also follows a year of rapid growth for the brand, which now serves over 1,000,000 businesses worldwide.
Flutterwave’s Founder and CEO Olugbenga ‘GB’ Agboola, said, “Once again, we are delighted to be the main sponsor of this year’s AFTS event. We believe that the AFTS network has been instrumental in developing and shaping the fintech industry in Africa, and Flutterwave has been an active enabler of ecosystem growth. We are always enthusiastic to work with the Africa Fintech Summit team to engage stakeholders and partners who help us create endless opportunities. We are excited about all this opportunity brings as we continue on our vision of connecting African countries through payments.”
“It is with immense gratitude and great pleasure that we welcome back Flutterwave as our leading Fintech sponsor for both our summits in April and November this year. Flutterwave has been – and continues to be – a powerful, progressive and innovative Fintech that enables the broad The Fintech ecosystem in Africa and beyond and demonstrates the Africanisation of technology in its global growth trajectory,” said Zekarias Amsalu, co-founder of AFTS and MD of Ibex Frontier.
Since its first summit in 2018, the Africa Fintech Summit has become the largest bi-annual fintech gathering on the African continent. In addition to Flutterwave’s sponsorship, AFTS will be supported by a diverse group of partners and sponsors. The 9th edition of AFTS will focus on fintech regulatory practices, diaspora banking and remittances, African fintech expanding globally, cross-border payment movements and Decentralized Finance (Defi) use cases, fintech funding trends, cross-border payments under the AfCFTA, Technical relations between the US and Africa and several other spotlight topics.
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