Africa Payments and RegTech Forum

Africa Payments and RegTech Forum is the annual pan-African payments and regulatory technology conference produced by QUBE Events at the Marriott Hotel Melrose Arch in Johannesburg. The event is positioned as a premier conference for financial services professionals exploring digital payments, blockchain, financial inclusion and regulatory innovation across Africa. With a focus on AI, cybersecurity and compliance, the forum connects banks, fintechs, payment-rails operators and regulators driving transformation in the African financial ecosystem.

What happens at Africa Payments and RegTech Forum

• Single-day conference programme with keynote addresses, high-level panels and expert insights
• One-to-one meetings between buy-side and sell-side attendees facilitated by the QUBE platform
• Roundtables on specific themes including cross-border payments, mobile money and AML compliance
• Senior-level networking with the African banking and fintech community

Who attends

The audience is concentrated in the African payments and regulatory ecosystem: South African Tier-1 banks (Standard Bank, Absa, Nedbank, FirstRand, Investec, Capitec), pan-African banks active in cross-border (Ecobank, Stanbic, Orange Bank Africa), African fintechs and payments players (Flutterwave, Paystack, Yoco, Cellulant, Interswitch, MFS Africa, Onafriq, Moniepoint, OPay), mobile money operators (MTN MoMo, Vodacom M-Pesa, Airtel Money, Orange Money), African Tier-2 regulators and central bank observers (SARB, CBN, Bank of Ghana, Bank of Kenya, Bank of Mauritius), pan-African payments infrastructure (PAPSS, Pan-African Payment and Settlement System representatives), RegTech vendors active in African KYC and AML (Smile Identity, Lulalend, Lipa Later, Stitch), and the global development finance institutions (IFC, AfDB, World Bank). Africa Payments and RegTech Forum is not an African startup pitch event and not a consumer-focused conference - it is the senior African payments and RegTech industry annual gathering.

Dominant themes at Africa Payments and RegTech Forum 2026

• Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) rollout and African cross-border payment corridor economics
• Mobile money interoperability and the path from MNO-led to bank-fintech-led models
• AML and counter-terrorism financing compliance under FATF grey-listing pressure on South Africa
• AI in African fraud detection and KYC automation
• Stablecoin remittance corridors competing with traditional MTOs
• Crypto-asset regulation across South Africa (FSCA), Nigeria (SEC), Kenya and Ghana
• Embedded finance via African super-apps and platform monetisation
• Financial inclusion via mobile money and the persistence of cash
• BNPL emergence in African retail and consumer credit

Planning to attend

OR Tambo International Airport (JNB) is thirty minutes from Melrose Arch by taxi; the Gautrain provides faster connectivity at twenty minutes to Sandton. Melrose Arch is an upscale mixed-use district in Johannesburg with the Marriott Hotel hosting the venue itself plus the Sandton Sun, the InterContinental Sandton, the Da Vinci as nearby alternatives. Book four to six weeks ahead - Johannesburg hotel supply tightens around mid-year African finance events. June in Johannesburg is mild winter - pack layers. For B2B vendors, coordinate with the broader African fintech calendar including AfricaCom in November and Money 20/20 Africa.

Use the expense calculator below to estimate the total cost of attending - registration, flights, hotels, meals, and ground transport - based on your origin city.