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Interview with CEO and Co-Founder of WeFi.co, Maksym Sakharov What will the next five years of digital payments actually look like? A: The next five years of payments will be shaped less by the wallet icon and more by the rails underneath it. Faster settl

By Ankur Singh, Founder, CEO & Editor, SylphCorps Media India's Unified Payments Interface is, by a wide margin, the world's largest real-time payments system - bigger than most people assume, and bigger than the Western wallets it usually gets compared t

By Courtney Olujobi, Principal, Moon Pursuit Capital One of the strongest arguments against allocating digital assets comes down to a simple problem: nobody can tell you with any real confidence what the asset is worth. To a large extent, I agree, because

Ethiopian Skylight Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 12 August 2026 The 29th Connected Banking Summit - Ethiopia Innovation & Excellence Awards 2026 concluded successfully on 12 August 2026 at the Ethiopian Skylight Hotel, Addis Ababa, bringing together senior

Strategic collaboration between global technology organisations, financial-market institutions and emerging fintech innovators highlights Ethiopia's evolving digital financial ecosystem ETHIOPIAN SKYLIGHT HOTEL, ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA - 12th August - The I

Stablecoins and tokenized assets are changing what wallets can hold, and AI agents will change what wallets can do. The legal architecture must now catch up. By Edwin Mata, CEO and Co-Founder of Brickken Most conversations about digital wallets still begi

By Rustam Bagautdinov, Director of Processing at Payzon Most industry discussions surrounding the evolution of digital wallets tend to focus on the surface: consumer adoption metrics, conversion uplift at online checkouts, transit gate latency, and the on

By Ben Booth, CEO, MaxContact Compliance and quality assurance teams have always had to rely on sampling to monitor customer interactions because manually reviewing every single conversation is unrealistic and impractical. With thousands of inbound and ou

Apple versus Google is the least consequential contest in digital payments. What decides the next five years is who chooses what happens in the second after a customer taps - and who is accountable when that choice goes wrong. By Joe Banda, Chief Operatin

By Nilesh Chavda, Digital Strategy Lead, VIP Apps Consulting Financial institutions face a dual directive to accelerate customer onboarding and transaction speeds to stay competitive, while maintaining robust controls across Financial Crime Compliance (FC