Fiscal, Financial Regulators Meet On Nigeria’s Digital Economy

The Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria (FICAN) has announced that apical regulators and bankers volition header its 2025 Annual Conference, with discussions focused connected boosting Nigeria’s integer economy.

The event, present successful its 35th edition, with the theme: “Bracing for the Digital Economy successful Nigeria: Taxation, Banking and Finance”, volition person the enforcement president of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Dr. Zacch Adedeji, present the pb insubstantial arsenic impermanent speaker,

Adedeji is expected to outline strategies for leveraging exertion to fortify taxation medication and amended authorities revenues.

Also billed to talk are the radical managing manager of United Bank for Africa (UBA), Dr. Oliver Alawuba, and the managing manager of Moniepoint Microfinance Bank Limited, Babatunde Olofin, who volition contiguous keynote addresses connected repositioning banks and fintechs for a digital-first economy.

Panellists volition see representatives from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), NIBSS, NAICOM, AMCON, Dangote Group, PalmPay, and the Nigeria Customs Service, alongside world input from Dr. Yinka David-West of Lagos Business School.

According to FICAN president Chima Titus Nwokoji, the league is designed to deepen the capableness of fiscal journalists portion serving arsenic an agenda-setting forum for policymakers, regulators, and operators successful the fiscal sector.

“This year’s variation is peculiarly important arsenic it coincides with our 35th anniversary,” the relation stated. “The level volition supply captious ideas and solutions to assistance Nigeria navigate the complexities of a integer economy.”

Over the years, FICAN’s yearly league has grown into a large argumentation forum, drafting much than 150 fiscal journalists crossed print, broadcast and online media, alongside cardinal stakeholders successful taxation, banking, and finance.