African banks, stablecoins and the next payments inflection
Gillian DARKO
We stand on the precipice of a new dawn in Africa. In May, Accra is set to host the 3i Africa Summit, a platform publicly positioned around innovation, investment, and impact, and framed by government and central-bank voices as a serious response to how value is “created, transferred, and regulated” in Africa’s rapidly evolving financial ecosystem.
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