Fidelity Bank Spotlight: Fintech’s Role in U.S.–Africa Trade

Tier-one lender Fidelity Bank Plc volition big a high-profile sheet league titled ‘Digital Railroads: Powering U.S.–Africa Commerce Through Fintech’ astatine the upcoming Fidelity Nigeria International Trade and Creative Connect (FNITCC) successful Atlanta, USA.

The session, scheduled for Friday, 19 September 2025, volition research however fintech is reshaping cross-border commercialized by enabling seamless payments, improving entree to finance, and driving fiscal inclusion crossed Africa and the diaspora.

The sheet volition bring unneurotic immoderate of the brightest minds successful integer concern including: Former lawman governor, Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN), Aisha N. Ahmad; Founder of Payaza Africa and a seasoned fintech entrepreneur with implicit 15 years of acquisition scaling outgo gateways crossed 20 African countries, Canada, the USA, and UAE; Seyi Ebenezer, and Founder & CEO of Sawport, an AI-powered level designed for real-time lawsuit engagement successful the diaspora and connected the continent, Charles Oligbo.

Speaking up of the session, divisional head, Agric and Exports, Fidelity Bank Plc, Isaiah Ndukwe, highlighted fintech’s unsocial relation successful unlocking Africa’s commercialized potential, saying, “The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is projected to boost intra-African commercialized by much than 50 per cent by 2030. But challenges similar fragmented outgo systems, currency conversion, and constricted commercialized concern proceed to clasp businesses back.

“Fintechs are uniquely positioned to code these gaps—enabling real-time, low-cost cross-border payments, offering alternate financing for SMEs, creating integer identities for exporters, and facilitating diaspora remittances and investments. This is wherefore we’re putting fintech astatine the bosom of discussions astatine FNITCC Atlanta.”

Hosted successful concern with AFRICON—the premier planetary gathering of African innovators and changemakers—FNITCC Atlanta volition tally from 18 to 20 September 2025 astatine the Omni Atlanta Hotel astatine Centennial Park, Georgia, USA. The lawsuit is expected to pull implicit 3,000 participants, including investors, commercialized agencies, exporters, and diaspora professionals, with projected commercialized and concern deals of much than US$400 million.

Building connected the occurrence of erstwhile editions successful London (2022) and Houston (2023), this year’s league underscores Fidelity Bank’s committedness to leveraging fintech arsenic a catalyst for U.S.–Africa commerce, portion creating caller opportunities crossed commodities, technology, and the originative industries.

According to the African Development Bank, Africa’s fintech revenues are projected to deed US$30 cardinal by 2025—a wide motion that integer concern is not conscionable powering transactions but besides rewriting the aboriginal of trade.

Interested businesses and participants are encouraged to registry for the conference.