01
Keynotes from the people who move the money
The operators of mobile money platforms, instant payment schemes and settlement systems set out what they have built, where it stops at the border, and what it would take to go further.
01 — Financial Rails
Financial
Rails Africa
The domestic rails already work. The cross-border ones are the problem.
14 October 2026
Nairobi, Kenya
02 — Why Be in the Room
Africa moved money differently. The infrastructure has to catch up.
Mobile money reached scale without waiting for the banking rails.
Instant payments, settlement and cross-border interoperability are the unfinished work.
That is the only reason to be here.
03 — The Room
250 decision-makers. No spectators.
200+
C-level executives from banking, mobile money, payments, and technology
40+
Speakers and contributors operating rails across the continent
20+
Selected partners with real infrastructure to show
1
Day of closed-door working sessions
No mass audience.
No exhibition floor.
No press.
A deliberately limited room for the institutions funding, building, regulating, and operating Africa's financial infrastructure.
04 — The People
You will be in the room with the people who matter.
Previous Speakers
Dr. Marwan Alzarouni
CEO
Dubai Blockchain Center
Dr. Ayesha Bin Lootah
Assistant Vice President
VARA
Henk J. Hoogendoorn
Chief of Financial Services Sector
QFC
Ibrahim Almheiri
CEO
Mashreq Al Islami
Paul Kayrouz
Chief Fintech Officer
Central Bank of UAE
Giovanni Miano
CTO
Zodia Markets
Daniel Coheur
Co-founder
Tokeny
Mario Nawfal
Political Commentator
Previous Partners
The institutions below have already shaped this conversation.
05 — The Experience
This is not a conference. This is a working room.
02
Private 1:1 meetings
Pre-arranged meetings built around your strategic priorities. The right person in the right conversation. No wasted time.
03
Working sessions on the cross-border problem
Closed-door sessions on regional interoperability, settlement that does not route through a third currency, remittance economics, and the licensing work that has to come first.
04
The Output
The Financial Rails Agenda
Leave with the institutional agenda for the region: what is ready to scale, what remains unresolved, and what to build next.
- Money
- Markets
- Infrastructure
- Rules
06 — The Invitation
The rails are being built now.
Be in the room where they are defined.
14 October 2026
Nairobi, Kenya
A closed-door gathering of 250 curated decision-makers shaping the infrastructure of African finance.