AXA Professor of Global Finance - Victor Murinde was invited to speak at the Afro-Asia FinTech Festival on 15th of July 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya.

“The diffusion of FinTech matters.” said Professor Murinde.

The festival is a two-day celebration of FinTech hosted by the Central Bank of Kenya and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta gave an inaugural speech on the first day of the Afro-Asia FinTech Festival and expressed his delight at welcoming the attendees, emphasizing the importance of the growing partnership between the two countries. 

The event featured various FinTech areas being addressed with a general focus on green sustainable solutions, including topics such as Sustainable Finance – Inclusive & Green, Technology for Tomorrow, which explored how Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud technologies have impacted the financial services sector, Social Impact which tackled the impact on the well-being of society equitable distribution of wealth through climate change, financial literacy and democratizing SME growth and finally Spirit of Innovation, which discussed how innovation enables leapfrogging of emerging markets in Africa and Asia through mobile financial services, InsurTech and Digital Pension.

The outcome of the event was to forge successful partnerships and nurture thriving FinTech ecosystems to pave the way forward for a better, more inclusive future.   

Watch Professor Murinde in Academic Hard Talk: