Powering the Digital Renaissance
22–23 September 2026
Lagos•Port Harcourt•Abuja
Building on the success of the 2025 multi-city debut, NFW 2026 expands its reach across Nigeria’s three commercial engines – bringing the agenda to where the country’s fintech activity is actually happening.
The Wole Soyinka Centre
(formerly the National Theatre)
Nigeria’s fintech capital. The main conference, the headline keynotes, the investor deal room, the international press.
Regional Centre
Energy, trade, and the cross-border corridor. A regional satellite of the Lagos agenda, with a tailored programme for the Niger Delta market.
Regional Centre
Where regulation lives. The policy track, the regulator stage, and the public-private conversations that shape what comes next.
Since 2017, Nigeria Fintech Week has grown from a single-city convening into the continent’s most consequential annual gathering for the people building, regulating, and funding the future of finance in Africa.
Now in its 9th edition, NFW is where founders meet regulators, where capital meets infrastructure, and where the policies, products, and partnerships that will define the next decade of African finance are first put into words.
It is, in short, where Nigerian fintech tells its story to the world — and where the world comes to listen.
Nigerian fintech is no longer a story of pioneers.
It is a story of institutions — of unicorns, of regulators with clear policy, of cross-border corridors that move billions a month, of a banking system being rebuilt in public.
“Legacy in Motion” names what comes next.
Not the founding moment, but the compounding one.
Eight years of momentum becomes the institutions, infrastructure, and standards that the next decade of African finance will inherit.
Building on the success of the 2025 multi-city debut, NFW 2026 expands its reach across Nigeria’s three commercial engines – bringing the agenda to where the country’s fintech activity is actually happening.
Open Banking, the SEC’s digital assets framework, agent banking limits, KYC, licensing, the regulator stage.
Nigeria as the gateway to West Africa. Remittance corridors, FX, intra-African settlement.
Credit infrastructure, BNPL, digital lending, the maturing of Nigeria’s consumer credit story.
Post-ARIP regulation, stablecoins, tokenisation, and the ecosystem after the SEC’s first approvals.
Banking-as-a-Service, API-led distribution, and the new architecture of consumer finance.
How Tier 1 banks are partnering, acquiring, and innovating – and what it means for the bank-fintech relationship.
Micro-insurance, savings, retail wealth, and the products bringing the underserved into the formal economy.
Recent stages have featured
CBN, SEC, NDIC, NITDA, NIMC, NAICOM, NIBSS, Ministry of Finance, National Assembly
Group executives, retail heads, digital banking leads from Nigeria’s commercial banking sector
Series A through unicorn — payments, lending, cross-border, embedded finance, wealthtech, insurtech
Mastercard, Visa, and international processors competing for the Nigerian and African market
VC partners, family offices, development finance institutions allocating to African fintech
Mobile money operators, broadband providers, identity infrastructure, payment switches
Cross-border payments and remittance leaders, African operators in London, Dubai, New York
The next generation of Nigerian fintech, including the pitch competition and innovation tracks.
Nigeria Fintech Week is built with the organisations shaping the future of finance across Nigeria and Africa.
Nigeria Fintech Week is built with the organisations shaping the future of finance across Nigeria and Africa.
Nigeria Fintech Week is built with the organisations shaping the future of finance across Nigeria and Africa.
