Digital Financial Services Takes Centre Stage at CashlessAfrica Awards

February 13, 2017
Digital Financial Services Takes Centre Stage at CashlessAfrica Awards

Digital Financial Services Takes Centre Stage at CashlessAfrica Awards

By Modupe Gbadeyanka

The CashlessAfrica 2017 awards are dedicated to acknowledging creativity, commitment and excellence in the digital financial services industry across Africa.

The awards honour the best of the breed across all sectors and segments covering financial technology providers, mobile network operators, financial institutions, mobile money providers, card services, financial institutions, application providers, regulators, microfinance organizations and individuals in the ecosystem in Africa and beyond.

The judging takes place in early March 2017, and winners are announced at the CashlessAfrica conference in March 2017 in Lagos – Nigeria.

Award entry is open to all stakeholders in the digital financial services industry with at least one active deployment or on-going partnerships in the Africa market. It is open to remittance providers, financial institutions, mobile financial services providers, microfinance entities, mobile network operators, independent firms, card processors and others.

Entries are free and can be submitted directly by the organization or partners. All entries must be received by 6pm GMT, February 28, 2017.

Submitted entries are welcomed in the following categories:

    Financial Inclusion Product of the Year

    Micro Finance Enabler Platform

    Remittance Enabler Platform

    Best MobileMoney Product Innovation

    E-Commerce Service Provider of the Year

    Best Mobile Mobile Money Service

    Best Low Cost Remittance Provider

    Best FinTech Start-Up

    Best Digital Travel Product / Service

    Remittance Personality of the Year

    FinTech Thought Leadership Award

    E-Product of the Year

    FinTech Product Innovation

    Innovation in E-Lending

    Best Agency Banking Provider

    Innovation in MobileMoney

    Innovation in Digital Banking

    Best FinTech-Bank Collaboration of the Year

    Best Money Transfer Company

    Insure-Tech Startup of the Year

    Best E-Travel Service

    Best Payment Gateway Provider.

All those interested in applying or finding out more about the completion are encouraged to visit http://CashlessAfrica.com/awards.The application period will run until 28th February 2017.

During the main expo, leading thought leaders and panelists in the digital financial services ecosystem in Africa and beyond will address the issues around ‘The future of financial services’ at the two-day event taking place at the Lagos Oriental hotel, Lagos.

Modupe Gbadeyanka

Modupe Gbadeyanka is a fast-rising journalist with Business Post Nigeria. Her passion for journalism is amazing. She is willing to learn more with a view to becoming one of the best pen-pushers in Nigeria. Her role models are the duo of CNN's Richard Quest and Christiane Amanpour.

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