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“Africa is the Silicon Valley of banking”, say co-founders of TagPay

The bank of the future is being invented in Africa, and it is more agile and close to its customers

The authors show how fintechs have been powerful tools for financial inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa

PARIS, France, September 26, 2018/APO Group/ --

The rise of fintechs might be shaking up the banking sector in developed countries, but African banks are taking full advantage of this technological revolution. So argue the co-founders of TagPay (en.TagPay.fr), Yves Eonnet and Hervé Manceron, in their new analysis of the digital revolution, Fintech: The Banks Counter-attack. The book was presented at a press conference held in Paris on 25 September 2018 at the headquarters of the leading digital transformation company onepoint.

“Africa is the Silicon Valley of banking,” say the authors. The bank of the future is being invented in Africa, and it is more agile and close to its customers. TagPay is behind the first Digital Banking System (DBS), which not only provides banks with the open architecture, real-time capability and agility they need in a digitalized world, but also offers an integrated solution that allows a financial institution to be set up in six months.

The authors show how fintechs have been powerful tools for financial inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa. In a region where the population remains largely unbanked but whose growth in terms of access to smartphones is the fastest in the world (+ 350% increase between 2007 and 2016), digital banking is the solution to the shortcomings in traditional banking infrastructure.

The second major observation of the book is that the popularity of digital banking solutions in sub-Saharan Africa makes the region a source of inspiration for the rest of the world. "In terms of disruptive innovation, the weight of the installed systems is an obstacle that is always difficult to overcome. The lack of existing systems frees Africa from these constraints, allowing it to realise its financial inclusion projects. The continent is making a technological leap by deploying the digital bank to serve these new populations. This is how Africa has invented before our eyes the bank of the future. "

During the press conference, TagPay also announced a partnership with onepoint, designed to provide integrated digital solutions to banks around the world.

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of TagPay.

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About TagPay:
TagPay Inc. (en.TagPay.fr) started as a mobile payment technology provider. It then became one of the first mobile money platforms, targeting banks with financial inclusion goals. TagPay Inc. is now the first mobile digital banking platform provider, with all the features of a core banking system, centred around the mobile phone.

TagPay Inc. was founded by Yves Eonnet and Hervé Manceron in 2005. It set up its first mobile money platform in Namibia in 2010. Société Générale acquired a minority stake in the company in June 2016.

TagPay headquarters is in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the Paris metropolitan area.