Southern Africa Banking Survey

It is my pleasure and privilege to invite you on this journey towards the future of banking across Africa. As we look ahead, it is with a cool head and hard data that we must plan for the disruption, and the opportunities that lie ahead for our industry.

Across Africa, the continent brims with young innovators, a rapidly expanding middle class, and a thirst for financial inclusion. That thirst has propelled innovation already, with mobile banking having banked millions of unbanked customers.

It is within this continent too, that blockchain technologies have unlocked opportunities for the unbanked, and further enabled socioeconomic development through alternative finance. Africa is not simply poised to become the next frontier of banking innovation; Africa already is.