Webinar - Delivering Pan African Retail Banking Friday 4 October 2013, 10am BST Presenters • Patrick Akinwuntan, Group Executive Director, Domestic Bank – Ecobank • Michael Lafferty, Chairman, Lafferty Group Register for this webinar here: bit.ly/153hHPx Ecobank is one of the most interesting international retail banks in the world today. With a presence in more African countries than any other bank - 34 countries - it is dedicated to bringing the best international banking products and services to Africa and is owned and managed primarily by Africans. Patrick Akinwuntan leads the Domestic Bank, which is responsible for the retail, SME, local corporate, public sector and microfinance businesses of the Group. His passion is to “take banking to the people” by making financial services available to the banked, under-banked and unbanked in Africa through innovative platforms. Akinwuntan has the challenge of growing the bank’s customer base across Africa from 10 to around 20 million over the next five years. In this webinar he talks with Michael Lafferty about: • Ecobank’s transformation from its former corporate banking heritage into a truly pan-African retail bank • Managing the bank from its head office in Lome, Togo in West Africa • Promoting a pan-African retail banking culture • His commitment to professionalisation and education • The bank’s main markets across Africa • The profitability of retail versus corporate banking • The outlook for the African economy • The risks of rapid growth • Mobile money • Microfinance for entrepreneurial traders • The exciting African youth market • The mass affluent, aspiring Africans and high net worth markets • Microfinance/informal traders • Remittances • The Nedbank alliance • The role of the IFC Register for this webinar here: bit.ly/153hHPx If you have any question, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Lydia lydia.russell@lafferty
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