26th June, 2025

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 will gather 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

What you can expect in 2025

Network with senior payments leaders

Network with senior payments leaders in a relaxed and business-driven environment

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

- 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.

- Testimonial

What they had to say

"We are always excited to be parts of events like this as it provides us with an opportunity to promote partnership amongst stakeholders and equally showcase our solutions."

Lewis Nurcombe

Head of Global, Business Development,

Visa Cross Border Solutions

"I really enjoyed the energy in the room at this event today, you can't recreate that on Zoom... at least I can't. Thanks Africa's fintech ecosystem."

Chad Reimers

General Manager of Fraud & ID,

TransUnion UK

"Great event with too many experts and expertise under on roof to share and discuss the payments industry in Africa, with focus on problem identification, proposing solutions and paving the way with ideas to bring together the different players and mainly regulators for the better future of the people and the industry."

Adrian Walking

CEO, UK International Payments,

Moneycorp

"We are delighted to be part of the Africa Fintech Live, indicating Mastercard's commitment to driving the development of Africa's payment industry."

Shehryar Ali

Senior Vice President & Country Manager for East Africa & Indian Ocean Islands,

Mastercard

"I am pleased to be on the panel session today, discussing with other stakeholders, on building partnership between Banks, Telcos and Fintech."

Sachin Tome

Senior Vice President, Global Payments Transformation,

Citi Bank

"The conversations we have on platforms like this and the quality of networking that comes with them, will enable us to deliver growth to Africa's payment industry."

Mo Bammeke

Global Chief Compliance Officer,

Flutterwave

- 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

Chantal Maritz

Partner,

PWC

Wanda Theron

COO,

RealPay

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

Darren Franks

Founder,

titc.io

Jill Wilmans

Managing Director: Africa,

SecureFX

Wiza Jalakasi

Director, Africa Expansion & Market Development,

EBANX

2025 Sponsors and Partners

Associate Sponsors
Media Partners
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