According to recent estimates, retail banking in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to grow by 15% per annum by 2020, bringing the sector’s contribution of GDP to 19% from 11% in 2009.
The gains in demand for retail banking services reflect the accelerating economic pulse on the continent largely owed to prudent macroeconomic and structural policies aimed at stimulating private sector-led growth.
Recognizing the pressing need for enhancing the flow of development finance, in the African mainland, the “5th Annual Retail Banking Africa 2013 ” will be held on 25th – 27th June 2013 in Johannesburg. This event will provide a platform to the region’s retail bankers to rethink their retail strategy in order to give a better customer experience, improved financial services and an alternate approach to boost consumer banking growth.
This 2 day conference will be followed by a day long workshop where experts from the retail banking fraternity will discuss on the current trends in the sector brainstorming policies and procedures, embedding a responsible banking culture, exploring opportunities to deliver financial inclusion.
Rajal Vaidya, Consumer Banking Director of Barclays Africa will open the conference with the keynote addressing “The Role of Retail Banking in Sustaining Pan-African Economic Growth.”
The Regulatory Panel discussion will address how effective the current retail banking regulations are in adapting to a business transformation. Mohammed Iqbal Belath, Second Deputy Governor of Bank of Mauritius will feature in this session, entitled as “Complying with Retail Banking Policies Procedures”.
The main feature of this forum is the CEO PANEL, entitled as Crafting a Pan-African Retail Distribution Strategy: Expanding Footprints, will focus on the way forward for African retail banking as its prime functions to operate significantly into the growth of the region’s economy. The panelists joining this session includes Ashraf Esmael, Chief Executive Officer of Bramer Bank; Inaete Merali Chief Executive Officer of Moza Banco SA; Sanjeev Anand, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Banque Commerciale du Rwanda and Brett Van Aswegen, Managing Director: Cards of AFB.
A dedicated session entitled as,” Time for a Change: From Bricks Mortars to Retail Banking 2013″, will brainstorm on the future scope of retail banking focusing on transforming the business from a legacy model to a futuristic model, being more innovative, developing a client-centric banking model and effectively shifting the branch banking model to a branch less banking model across customer markets. This session will be addressed by Yolande Van Wyk, Chief Executive Officer of FNB eWallets Solutions at First National Bank
Our other speakers include industry specialists from First National Bank, Barclays Africa, Fina Bank, BancABC, Absa Bank, Ecobank, Bank of Khartoum, Nedbank, MasterCard Worldwide and many more.
South African Airlines is the official airline partner of this forum, which is being gold sponsored by International Turnkey System (ITS), and supported by Institute of South African Bankers, African Business Roundtable and International Compliance Association. The third day of this forum will involve in two intriguing workshops, where participants will indulge in sessions of theoretical studies, relevant case-studies, group exercise and interactive discussion to understand “Channel Diversification – Strategies for Optimizing Financial Inclusion” and “Increasing Customer Satisfaction for Retail Banking Customers”
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Author: Mohor Mukherjee from Fleming Gulf. Originally distributed by MyPR.co.za.
