9th Edition Connected Banking Innovation & Excellence Awards 2023 | Connected Banking Summit | 15 November 2023 | TBA, Accra, Ghana

Africa’s financial services markets are among the most stimulating in the world. The banking and financial services market in Africa is the second-fastest-growing and second-most profitable of any global region, and a locus of innovation.
The West African financial sector has been witnessing a wave of digital innovation that has fuelled services and applications that had the potential to really shake up the banking sector.
Banks, Fintechs, and financial institutions have been harnessing digital solutions designed to serve touchless and remote banking, which has unlocked opportunities for the millions of digitally connected diaspora that remains formally unbanked but economically active.
Central Banks in the region have been implementing policies to meet next-gen requirements of the evolved banking customer, this by analysing the challenges and successes of regions that have championed financial inclusion. The sector has also been adopting automated banking systems, advanced mobile money platforms, tailored credit and digitized lending facilities, and crypto-currencies for this promising market.
With this as a driver, ICSA presents Connected Banking – West Africa , formerly named the Africa Digital Banking Summit. Connected Banking – West Africa will deliberate on, and focus on developing solutions to, critical issues faced by banks and FIs in the West Africa region. The Summit is a not to be missed opportunity for experts, business people, and practitioners from the BFSI fraternity to discuss practical and cost-effective solutions to developing digital banking solutions.
The Connected Banking Series is an ideal platform for networking with industry players, senior managers, decision-makers, and practitioners operating in the industry and making the most of banking technologies.
The Summit will host leaders and experts from across the region representing, Banks, Insurance Companies, FinTechs and TechFins, Digital and NeoBanks, Non-Banking Financial Organizations, Cooperatives, Investments funds, Asset Management Companies.

2023 Speakers

Maxwell Opoku- Afari
First Deputy Governor, Bank of Ghana

Gillian Hammah
Group Chief Marketing Officer, Databank Financial Services Ltd

Ronald Raffensperger
CTO, Digital Transformation - Financial Industry Business, Huawei

Nitesh Marcel Singh
Managing Director Comms Media and Tech Lead, Accenture Southern Africa

John Kofi Adomakoh
Managing Director, GCB Bank PLC

Abdoul Aziz Faye
Group CIO, Ecobank

Rachel Adeshina
Group Chief Information Officer, First Bank of Nigeria

Chukwuma Okpaka
Azure Go-to Market Lead, Africa Regional Cluster, Microsoft

Lee Allcorn
Director, Temenos SaaS Middle East & North Africa, Temenos

Thairu Ndungu
Deputy Managing Director, Consolidated Bank of Ghana

Bossman Akuffo Kwapong
Country Manager, Mastercard Ghana

Kwame Oppong
Director of FinTech and Innovation, Bank of Ghana

Philip Oti-Mensah
Executive Director, OmniBSIC Bank

Sylvia Otuo-Acheampong
General Manager, MTN Ghana

Andrew Osei Akoto
Partner, Head of Advisory and Financial Services, KPMG

Antwi Boasiako
Director-General, Cyber Security Authority Ghana, Cyber Security Authority Ghana

Ophelia Ama Oni
Digital Financial Sevice Expert, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)

Emmanuel Morka
Chief Information Officer, Access Bank Ghana

Leopold Armah
Head Digital Transformation & Innovation, Prudential Bank Ghana

Adwoa Asare-Asamoah
Lead Consultant , CXHatchery Ltd

George Mensah
Director Of Technology, Consolidated Bank of Ghana

Carl Amanor Sackey
President, ISACA Accra Chapter

Philip Twum
Deputy Manager Digital Transformation & Innovation, KPMG

Gilbert Sebe-Yeboah
Head, Consumer Finance Department, Agricultural Development Bank

Edem Glymin
Head of Cyber Security, Global Secure Solutions Ghana Limited

Martin Kwame Awagah
President, Ghana Fintech and Payments Association

Albert Prempeh Kusi
CEO, LEC Group

William Nana Danso-Abeam
Head Direct Banking, Ecobank Ghana Limited

2023 Sponsors

• Bank of Ghana
• Zimbabwe
• Nigeria House of representative