This sponsorship comes as MDP continues to aim to enhance its capabilities to deliver next-level payment solutions to banks, fintechs and telcos across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. Already, the 30-year-old payments enabler currently serves over 260 financial institutions across 40 countries and has produced over 340-million cards. However, it's not resting on its oars as it continues to work hard to deliver innovative, scalable and secure end-to-end payment (issuing, acquiring and digital) services to its clients with greater agility, says the summit.

The partnership with the Africa Fintech Summit supports the company's expansion plans, as it continues to deepen its roots in Africa. For instance, last year saw it open a regional office in Ghana, while extending its payment processing services to Kenya and Libya. The company's impact is among the reasons it made it into the top 20 on Forbes' list of the Top 50 Fintechs in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, says the summit.

"Our presence in Ghana reflects MDP's long-term commitment to supporting financial institutions and fintechs across West Africa with proven, reliable payment infrastructure. With decades of experience enabling payments in both mature and emerging markets, we understand what it takes to deliver solutions that work in local contexts. Events like the Africa Fintech Summit allow us to engage directly with banks, fintechs and regulators who are looking not just for technology, but for a partner they can trust to deliver efficiently and at scale," says Emmanuel Sarpong-Oduro, Managing Director of MDP Ghana.

"It is with great delight & gratitude that we are welcoming back MDP as a sponsor for our 14th edition of AFTS in Accra this October. MDP has been — and continues to be — an impactful, progressive and innovative end-to-end payments infrastructure that enables the wide Fintech ecosystem in Africa & beyond, demonstrating the Africanisation of Tech in its global growth trajectory," says Zekarias Amsalu, Co-Founder & MD of AFTS.

Since its first summit in 2018, the Africa Fintech Summit has become the largest annual financial technology gathering on the African continent. #AFTSACCRA25 brings Keynote Speeches from the Host Country Government, AfCFTA, Fintech thought leaders, a VIP dinner for Speakers and invited guests, excellence in FinTech awards ceremony, workshops, fireside chats, Exhibition Booths, Masterclasses for Startup Founders, Alpha Expo Mini Accelerator & Pitch Competition and Ecosystem tours around Accra for the international delegates. The event concludes with happy-hour receptions for delegates and attendees on each date, says the summit.

Over the past 13 summits, AFTS has supported Over $200-million in capital raise efforts for African fintech startups though pitch competitions, groundbreaking launch of partnerships and inward investments to host countries through conference tourism, Public discourse and debate surrounding industry trends, brand building and awareness opportunities across global fintech media, knowledge sharing between banking/fintech operators with regulators, active engagement and inclusion of regulatory authorities in continental fintech conversation, and bring the largest source of truth for announcements of financial technology innovation and strategic partnerships across the continent and globally, adds the summit.

As in the past years, the event is hybrid, with live streaming provided for remote attendees via our website as well as via partnering educational facilities across Africa as part of their industry-academia partnership initiative. Limited in-person tickets to the 14th Edition summit are now available on the Fintech Summit website, and delegates can secure their tickets with a 25% discount by using code GFA25 at checkout, concludes the summit.

For more information, visit www.africafintechsummit.com. You can also follow the Africa Fintech Summit on Facebook, LinkedIn, X, or on Instagram.

*Image courtesy of contributor