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Webinar on Digital Wallets: From Financial Inclusion to Multi-Functional Ecosystems

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The global post-pandemic m-payment market will grow to $3,695 billion in 2024, as forecast by Accenture. Players who have helped their consumers to assimilate into a multi-functional wallet ecosystem are profiting in this competitive market. What technologies do they rely on? Which needs do such ecosystems meet in each global region, and what makes them popular?

Join this webinar and learn from wallet providers, bankers, payments analysts and fintechs from Africa, Europe and Asia: 

  • What best practices and technologies contributed to the success of live wallet and m-payment projects, as presented by SmartPay, Equity Bank Kenya, Carrefour, Raiffeisenbank, and other major payment players

  • Financial products and services that are sold best via digital wallets

  • Making your mobile app a multi-tool for financial inclusion

  • How to entice customers and partners into using your mobile app daily

  • Pitfalls to avoid on your way to a profitable wallet

Stay for the Q&A session and get the answers to your questions from C-level experts from SmartPay, Africa Fintech Network, Celent and OpenWay!

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Meet the speakers

Marek Forysiak

Marek E. Forysiak is the Chairman of the Board at SmartNet Trading D/B/A SmartPay, one of the leading eWallet companies in Vietnam.  At SmartPay, Marek has been responsible for building a nationwide network of over 400,000 merchant acceptance points comprised mostly of micro to small merchants and acquiring a user base exceeding 1 million Smart Customers initiating over 2 million monthly transactions.

In addition to his role at SmartPay, Marek is also a member of the Board of Directors at FE Credit, Vietnam’s largest consumer finance company as well as several other globally recognized financial technology leaders, such as Movencorp, Inc.

Marek has spent over 2 decades working in high growth emerging and transitioning markets, to include Central and Eastern Europe and South East Asia.  His impact has helped in establishment of model financial organizations that promote financial mobility and helping others in accessing financial services for the first time.

Mbaye_Dieye
Papa Mbaye Dièye is an economist, financier, with more than 20 years of expertise acquired in Payment Systems, in the implementation of electronic payment platforms (national, regional, cross-border) and in Digital Transformation, in the Banking and Microfinance industry. Founding member of AFRICAN FINTECH NETWORK (AFN), a pan-African FinTech organization that aims to be a place of convergence of ideas, trends, innovations and key debates on many issues ranging from information technologies to the protection of consumers, through innovation and disruption in key sectors of our economies.
Kieran Hines

Kieran Hines is a Senior Analyst at Celent with almost 20 years of experience in the banking consultancy industry. During his time at Ovum, he co-authored the 2020 report Digital Payments in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges.

Kieran works closely with banks, vendors and payment processors on their technology and business strategies. His client engagements have covered a range of topics, including real-time payments, open banking, corporate treasury, payment cards, and digital commerce. Prior to joining Celent, Kieran was Research Director for the Financial Services Technology and Industries teams at Ovum (now Omdia).

Maria Vinogradova
Maria was among the first creators and ambassadors of white-label digital wallets. Coming from the product management and business analytics domains, Maria joined OpenWay in 2003 to head the marketing department. In her current role as Director of Strategy and Market Intelligence, she contributed to securing OpenWay’s top industry ranking for its card issuing, merchant management, and digital wallet solutions. Most recently, OpenWay was also awarded by Paytech as the best vendor of digital payments solutions in the cloud.

The webinar moderator

Valentin Alexeev
Valentin has been working at OpenWay since 2013, transforming new technology ideas into everyday use cases. He co-designed a payment wallet for insurance companies. Valentin is a primary contact person for OpenWay’s clients in Africa. He serves as a consultant to banks on the efficient implementation of payment processing and self-service channel solutions. His background includes R&D, business development and sales projects in telecom and media industries.

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