Watch Now: Catalysing Digital Payment Adoption in Zambia, Kenya, and Nigeria
On Tuesday, 26th September 2023, a significant digital finance event unfolded that promised to reshape the financial landscape of Zambia, Kenya, and Nigeria. Hosted in collaboration with The Alliance of Digital Finance Associations, Digital Frontiers and...
Watch Now: The Journey to Formation and Impact Series: Fintech Association for Consumer Empowerment (FACE)
Fintech Association for Consumer Empowerment (FACE) has been formed for three years. They began with 5 members and now their membership covers about 80% of the digital lenders in the country. Members agree to abide by a code of conduct and pay a membership...
Collaborating to Accelerate the Adoption of Digital Payments in Africa
Global Findex 2021 data[1] highlights some key statistics in developing economies: The percentage of adults making or receiving digital payments increased from 35% to 57%. 865 million account owners opened their first financial institution account for the purpose...
Is cloud computing the answer to creating a diverse digital finance ecosystem and increasing financial inclusion?
The European Banking Authority[1] defines cloud computing as “a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources”. Cloud computing delivers a blend of computer resources, including access to...
Strategies to attract members
Finding members for your association that will share and contribute to your values and goals can help establish your name and accelerate your movement forward. To succeed and become sustainable, associations need a strong membership base. We’ve put together some...
Empowering Digital Finance Associations: Welcoming New Members and Launching the Accelerator Programme
As we settle into the new year, The Alliance of Digital Finance Associations is thrilled to announce the addition of four new members to our growing network. We warmly welcome the Association Des Professionnels De La Finance Digitale Au Cameroun, Fintech...
Catalysing cohesiveness in the digital finance industry to enable financial resilience and growth
Welcome to our session discussing how we can catalyse cohesiveness in the industry to enable financial resilience and economic growth. In this session, we explore why we formed in-country Digital Finance Associations and the Alliance of Digital Finance...
Instant and Inclusive Payment Systems Capacity Collaboration
The Alliance of Digital Finance Associations, AfricaNenda and Digital Frontiers are happy to announce their collaboration around instant and inclusive payment systems. All three organisations bring different strengths and focus to support the acceleration and...
Watch Now: Buy Now Pay Later: enhancing or hindering financial inclusion
Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) has grown to an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Companies such as AfterPay, Block, Klarna, PayPal, and recently Apple allow customers around the world to buy items while paying only a small upfront deposit. Most of...
Introducing the Board of the Alliance of Digital Finance Associations
Launched in 2021, the concept for the Alliance of Digital Finance Associations (the Alliance) came from our in-country Digital Finance Association (DFA) members. Through their formation, and gaining credibility on a local level, the Associations identified the...
Journey to Formation Learning Series – Spotlight on FinTech Alliance Philippines
As part of the Journey to Formation Learning Series, we were delighted to feature the successes of FinTech Alliance Philippines, and special thanks to their Chair, Lito Villanueva. You can watch the recording of the discussion here and can download Lito’s...
How local capacity building initiatives in Mozambique have strengthened & elevated locally led digital development
The Alliance of Digital Finance Associations, Digital Frontiers, Fintech.MZ and FSD Mozambique were excited to discuss how local capacity building initiatives in Mozambique have strengthened & elevated locally led digital development at this year’s Global...
Making strong connections in an increasingly digitised world
Networks and connections play an important role in enabling information, knowledge and experience to be shared and new innovations and ideas to be discussed. Our connections help us to learn, refine and grow ideas and are an important catalyst to drive change,...
Alliance of Digital Finance Associations Conference 2022: Strategy and strengthening of the Alliance and our Digital Finance Association members
We were delighted to host our first Alliance of Digital Finance Associations Conference in April 2022, held in Cape Town. It was a busy three days focusing on the following key areas: Visioning, relevance and intent of in-country Digital Finance Associations...
The Journey to Formation and Impact – March 2022
Three of our founding digital finance associations share their experiences and successes to help guide and inspire others on their journey. TOP TIPS – FOR DEVELOPING DIGITAL FINANCE ASSOCIATIONS Clear values and aims Specific enough to inform what projects you get...