Director of Financial Sector Development and Inclusion, National Bank of Rwanda
Valence KIMENYI is the current Director of Financial Sector Development and Inclusion Department at the National Bank of Rwanda (NBR). He leads BNR’s agenda on promoting financial inclusion, financial education and innovation. Previously, he served as Director Financial Stability Monitoring Department at NBR, helping the central bank to design and implement macro-prudential policies, publish financial stability reports and, coordinate the financial stability committee of NBR. Valence has also served an economist at both the World Bank and NBR focusing on macroeconomic diagnostics, monetary policy design & implementation, as well as, economic modelling as forecasting. He is passionate about making financial markets work for the poor.
Roundtable Room 4, Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Level 4
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In September 2024, Elevandi hosted a roundtable “FinTech Above the Fray: Building a Resilient Payments Ecosystem” in collaboration with the Milken Institute at the 2024 Asia Summit. The discussion centered on how the digital economy and fintech services have significantly improved peoples’ abilities to access financial services and transact online.
We are pleased to continue the dialogue on how payments systems, being the first point of entry into the formal economy for many, play a critical role in ensuring that financial flows serve the common good. But the exponential availability of opportunities to participate in the digital economy can be a double-edged sword; the boom of companies and services seeking to facilitate transaction also opens the doors to new risks and concerns.
Bringing together global providers of payments infrastructure and innovative regulators, this roundtable will consider how concerns over data privacy, ownership, and sovereignty, fraud and cybersecurity, nefarious financial activities, and geopolitics are being addressed, and what this implies for businesses and consumers. Participants will discuss how the payments ecosystem can be both safe and trustworthy, but also more efficient, pragmatic, and innovative.
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