The Fintech Affiliation of Nigeria (FinTechNGR) has unveiled plans to develop to different sectors on the 2025 Nigerian Fintech Week and transfer past Lagos for the primary time.
This 12 months’s version, themed ‘The Fintech Ecosystem Symphony: Orchestrating Nigeria’s Digital Future,’ goals to amplify fintech’s position in shaping a tech-inclusive Nigeria by mixing sectors, geographies, and generations.
“We wish everybody to carry their instrument and be capable of make concord. Even the occasion setting goes to be set as much as permit for that kind of interplay to occur. Every area will design its personal expertise whereas connecting digitally to the nationwide program,” stated Jameelah Sharrieff-Ayedun, vp of FinTechNGR and chair of the 2025 Nigerian Fintech Week Planning Committee, on the press convention in Lagos.
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She acknowledged that that is about delivering an expertise that resonates from the grassroots to the worldwide stage. Communities in every area will tailor a part of this system to native realities, whether or not it’s agro-fintech within the North or entertainment-tech within the South, whereas nonetheless linking into the nationwide periods.
The expanded format will see concurrent actions held throughout Lagos and different zones, guaranteeing that fintech engagement is not geographically constrained.
Stanley Jacob, president of FinTechNGR, stated the occasion is a part of the affiliation’s broader PIE Agenda (Participation, Innovation, and Growth), designed to democratise fintech entry and catalyse sector-wide progress.
“We’re not simply an affiliation; we at the moment are a motion. The 2025 Nigerian Fintech Week will replicate this imaginative and prescient by welcoming not simply fintech professionals but additionally voices from oil and gasoline, aviation, leisure, and grassroots communities.
“From AI purposes in well being and agriculture to discussions on digital funds in casual markets, this 12 months’s agenda seeks to replicate the complete variety of the Nigerian fintech ecosystem,” he acknowledged.
Seun Folorunsho, director of advocacy and applications, FinTechNGR, stated the expanded occasion will showcase the impression of fintech past conventional matters like compliance and funding.
“We’re bringing in life, leisure, style, gaming, alongside sensible use instances. We wish Gen Z to return, specific themselves, and plan for the longer term,” he stated.
Sharrieff-Ayedun additionally highlighted the significance of together with agent networks and grassroots operators who held Nigeria’s casual monetary system collectively throughout the COVID-19 lockdowns.
“They’ve develop into trusted factors of entry for monetary companies inside communities. That belief is invaluable, and they are going to be a significant a part of the symphony we’re orchestrating this 12 months,” she added.
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Because the ecosystem continues to evolve, the 2025 Nigerian Fintech Week goals to redefine what it means to take part in Nigeria’s digital revolution, the place everybody, in all places, performs a component within the symphony, the organisers famous.
With over 600 members and a rising community of volunteers and sector-specific communities of apply, FinTechNGR stated it’s positioning this 12 months’s Nigerian Fintech Week not simply as a convention, however as a collaborative motion.
