Banking Transformation Africa 2025 is back this August with its most ambitious agenda to date, bringing together banking and fintech leaders from across the continent for two powerful days of strategy, technology, and innovation. Presented by Seraph Network, the summit is located at The Maslow Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg, on 20–21 August 2025.
As digital transformation picks up momentum across Africa’s financial landscape, this high-impact summit will spotlight the trends, technologies, and partnerships reshaping the future of banking. The 2025 agenda covers both strategic necessity and tangible innovation, including AI-powered banking, open APIs, cloud migration, cybersecurity, real-time payments, and inclusive fintech models.
Exploring the future of African finance
The summit opens with high-level discussions on the modernisation journey to digital-first banking and challenger models challenging legacy institutions. Across two days, attendees will gain insights from panel discussions, fireside chats, and keynote presentations led by top executives, regulators, technologists, and innovators.
Key themes include:
- AI and Hyper-Personalisation: leveraging real-time data, predictive analytics, and virtual assistants to deliver personalised financial services at scale
- Customer-Centric Transformation: rethinking the customer experience across mobile, wearables, and omnichannel platforms
- Payments Innovation: exploring real-time, cross-border, mobile, and blockchain-powered payments infrastructure
- Fintech Collaboration: unlocking innovation through partnerships that promote agility, inclusion, and scalable digital ecosystems
- Cybersecurity and Digital Trust: Addressing AI-era threats and building secure, resilient banking environments in an open banking world.
Specialised tracks for Payments and Cybersecurity
Alongside the main plenary, Banking Transformation Africa 2025 features two focused tracks:
- Future of Payments Track: spotlighting secure, seamless, and innovative payment ecosystems—including biometrics, super apps, and embedded finance
- Cybersecurity in Banking Track: equipping banks with strategies to protect customer data, combat fraud, and embed trust across digital platforms.
Delegates can expect:
- Executive keynotes and in-depth panel discussions
- One-on-one meetings and high-impact networking
- Dedicated tracks on the future of payments and cybersecurity in banking
- Practical case studies from leading banks and fintechs across Africa
- And much more.
Whether you’re a banking executive, fintech founder, CIO, CISO, or technology provider, this summit offers the clarity, connections, and context you need to lead in Africa’s fast-changing financial sector.
The Super Early Bird registration is now open at https://bankingtransformationafrica.com/register/
