Network with senior payments leaders
Network with senior payments leaders in a relaxed and business-driven environment
25th June, 2026
Pivot Hotel Montecasino, Johannesburg,
South
Africa
Africa’s Payments Industry Meeting Place
Where Africa's payments industry leaders connect
Bringing Africa’s Payment Leaders Together Under One Roof
As part of Africa Tech Series, Payments Live anually gathers senior payments executives, merchants, fintechs and fraud leaders to shape Africa's payments future.
This is an unrivaled opportunity for leaders that oversee payments and fraud strategy, payments schemes, developing payments architecture and infrastructure to explore key trends and opportunities across Africa's payments ecosustem.
Payments Live is your gateway to new opportunities across Africa's payments market, an unmissable platform to learn, network and showcase your payments solutions.
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- Why Attend
Discover Insights, Connections, and Opportunities in Payments
Hear and learn from payments innovators
Join conversations that keeps you ahead of Africa's fast growing payments industry
Explore payments strategies and engage with regulators
Keep up with how Africa's payment landscape and regulatory environment is evolving
Engage in Payments Roundtables
Take part in vertical-based roundtable discussion across Africa's payments ecosystem
- Expectations
What you can expect in 2026
Live Expo
We are introducing exhibitions at the 2026 edition of Payments Livel providing our partners with an opportunity to showcase their latest solutions, services and products to the entire value chain of the Africa's payments industry.
Pre-Event Happy Hour
As a prelude to Payments Live, we are convening attendees for a night of networking, fun, and revelry that you won't want to miss. We are looking forward to delivering a truly unforgettable evening!
Networking
To aid 1-2-1 networkingk we are designing lounges that cater to optimum value for quick discussions amongst stakeholders participating at the event.
- 9 Content Streams
Tracks of content will span across
Instant & Cross-border
Financial Fraud & FnCrime
Merchant Payments
Payments Regulation & Policy
Payments Infrastructure
Open Banking
Financial Inclusion
Digital Currencies & Crypto
Payments Innovation
- Partnersip
Partner with Us
Exhibition
We provide you with unrivlaed opportunites of reaching your target market and demonstrating your soultions in Africa's fast growing payments industry.
Brand awareness
Payments Live plays host to senior industry leaders, exploring partnership provides you with an opportuninty for raising your brand awareness and positioning it for growth.
Media visibility
We leverage multiple media platforms to ensure your brand messages gets to the right audience before, during and after the event. We have done this multiple times for the multiple brands.
Thought leadership
Joining panel sessions, fireside chats, breakout sessions and keynote sessions are some of the ways to profile your brand as a leader through demonstration of thought leadership to a unique audience across the Africa's payment industry.
Lead generation
We bring industry leaders, merchants and clients to Payments Live, providing you with an opportunity to generate qualified leads and network with key stakeholders.
Industry leadership
We provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate leadership across the Africa's payments industry, through our sponsorship opportunities.
- Speakers
Who speaks at Payments Live?
Nkosana Roda
Head, Payments Platform Services,
Standard Bank Group
Kumaran Selvaranju
Senior General Manager,
Payments Banking Association of South Africa
Karen Nasaden
CEO,
PayU Africa
Cindy Sieberts
Manager, Banking & FX,
Onafriq
Hamish Houston
Co-Founder,
enza
Nkahiseng Ralepeli
VP of Product: Digital Assets- Tokenisation & Stablecoins,
Absa Group
Doreen Mokoena
Chief Information Security Officer,
Cybersec Clinique
Danielle du Toit
President: Sub-Saharan Africa,
African Women in Fintech & Payments
Jill Wilmans
Managing Director: Africa,
SecureFX
Wiza Jalakasi
Director, Africa Expansion & Market Development,
EBANX
Sindiswa Makhubalo
Head of Banks and Payment Providers Supervision Department,
Financial Services Conduct Authority, South Africa
Matalane Ngobeni
Manager,
Digital and New Media, Brand South Africa
Prelin Perumal
Co-Founder/CPO,
Scale
Lineshree Moodley
Country Head for Visa,
South Africa
Tendai Tizirai
Head of Expansion,
Mukuru
Julie Neogy
Co-CEO,
Expand in Africa
Kudzai Chaka
CEO,
KC Compliance
2025 Sponsors and Partners
Sponsored By
Media Partners
- Attendees
Who participates at our events?
Highlights from previous events
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