AfricaCom 2022: Huawei launches transformative fintech offering to revolutionize mobile money

Bryan You, Director of Huawei Southern Africa Software Solutions and Marketing.

Huawei last week announced the launch of an innovative fintech offering, which will revolutionize mobile money in Africa, with the aim of increasing financial inclusion and greatly improving the consumer’s digital user experience.

Called Fintech 2.0, the product was announced at AfricaCom, Africa’s largest technology gathering.

The solution will also give micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) the opportunity to transform digitally, and give service providers greater flexibility. By doing so, Huawei believes it will accelerate industrial innovation and digital financial inclusion in emerging markets.

Fintech 2.0 brings value to mobile fintech operators through an extremely digital experience, accelerated innovation and faster time to market. In terms of digital experience, the solution’s digital architecture allows operators to ensure that the overall experience is tailored to all aspects of a customer’s life and combines simple and fast payment and lending.

In addition, it allows accelerated innovation by simplifying application development for MSMEs. Developers are able to reuse available industry resources, including custom templates and components to quickly build service applications using best-in-class visual tools with minimal coding.

Fintech 2.0’s open ecosystem, meanwhile, allows operators to bring apps to market faster. By bringing together API, H5 and miniapp technologies, it ensures that partners can launch the service on a super app within one week and take marketing campaigns from idea to launch within three weeks. With a cloud-based platform, the solution supports container/microservice, automatic scaling and gray release and enables software updates in days.

“We were delighted to announce the launch of Fintech 2.0 at AfricaCom,” said Bryan You, Director of Huawei Southern Africa Software Solution and Marketing. “Huawei continues to invest heavily in fintech research and innovation, creating solutions to help meet global challenges and support anticipated future developments.

“Huawei’s fintech solution uniquely combines the strengths of agile business development, rapidly scalable platform, financial quality regulatory and security compliance, and ultimately accurate real-time risk control, to safely accelerate digital financial inclusion, enabling access to the growing digital economies for all person and organisation, he adds.

Currently, Huawei’s fintech solution serves more than 400 million users in more than 20 countries. Through contactless online payment, the solution has helped to reduce the economic impact of the pandemic, and in many countries governments are helping to provide subsidies to tens of millions of citizens and education allowances for millions of students. It has also helped create hundreds of thousands of jobs for women and provided financial services such as microcredit to those who need it most.

Fintech 2.0 aims to build on this legacy and help provide secure, stable and reliable platforms to ensure the safety and security of mobile financial businesses. Through its use of advanced connectivity and platforms, Huawei hopes to help financial institutions build digital business processes, implement digital services for financial inclusion, and achieve sustainable economic development.