{"id":3887,"date":"2026-09-04T12:18:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:38:19","slug":"gitex-nigeria-launches-mint-africa-as-lagos-stakes-claim-on-future-of-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/?p=3887","title":{"rendered":"GITEX Nigeria launches Mint Africa as Lagos stakes claim to future of finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>*GITEX Nigeria announces the launch of Mint Africa by GITEX, in Lagos, as a new future finance platform on which money, innovation, new technology and transparency converge to accelerate the transformation of Africa\u2019s financial economy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alexander Davis | ConsumerConnect<\/p>\n<p>GITEX Nigeria Thursday, August 3, 2026, announced the launch of Mint Africa by GITEX, a new future finance platform attracting money, innovation, new technology and transparency to accelerate the transformation of Africa\u2019s financial economy.<\/p>\n<p>Launching in Lagos as part of GITEX Nigeria week 2027, organisers said Mint Africa by GITEX would convene governments, regulators, banks, institutional investors, FinTechs, technology companies and digital-asset innovators at a critical inflection point for global finance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finance is being rewritten<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Money is becoming programmable. Real-world assets are being tokenised. Agentic AI is beginning to transform how financial services are delivered and decisions are made.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"LsVeugj4cC\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/?p=3860\">Environment: Nigeria introduces plastic waste regulations, urges manufacturers, others to take responsibility<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cEnvironment: Nigeria introduces plastic waste regulations, urges manufacturers, others to take responsibility\u201d \u2014 Consumer Experience Is A Top Priority\" src=\"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/?p=3860&amp;embed=true#?secret=ZP0beqvJfg#?secret=LsVeugj4cC\" data-secret=\"LsVeugj4cC\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stablecoins and digital assets are challenging traditional rails, while AI, digital identity, cybersecurity and interoperable payment infrastructure are becoming fundamental economic infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>For Africa, these shifts represent an opportunity not simply to adopt the next generation of finance, but to help define it. And few places make the case more powerfully than Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria is Africa\u2019s largest FinTech ecosystem, while Lagos has produced some of the continent\u2019s most consequential FinTech companies, and sits at the intersection of immense market scale, entrepreneurial talent, capital and an increasingly ambitious digital economy.<\/p>\n<p>Following the sell-out GITEX Nigeria, Mint Africa by GITEX 2027 will significantly expand this mandate, creating a dedicated platform to connect capital, policy, regulation, infrastructure and frontier financial technology across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>In partnership with the Lagos State Government, Mint Africa by GITEX will debut during GITEX Nigeria week leveraging GITEX\u2019s global technology, investor and government network to connect Africa\u2019s financial ambitions with international capital and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, Deputy Governor of Lagos State, said: \u201cWhen GITEX came to Nigeria, Lagos became a commercial anchor. That was not a courtesy extended to us; it was a commercial judgement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExhibitions follow markets, and markets follow scale, capital and momentum \u2013 all of which converge here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hamzat stated: \u201cLagos is a consequential destination and what happens here helps shape Africa\u2019s digital transformation trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next chapter of African finance will not simply arrive; it will be built here, together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tunbosun Alake, Honourable Commissioner for the Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Technology, Lagos State, said: \u201cAfrica doesn\u2019t have a shortage of financial innovation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has a shortage of the conversations that turn innovation into signed deals. The future of finance week is built to close that gap \u2014 not to celebrate it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>From financial inclusion to financial reinvention<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The opportunity is substantial. Africa\u2019s digital payments economy is projected to reach US$1.5 trillion by 2030, while the African Development Bank estimates reforms spanning deeper capital markets, stronger domestic resource mobilisation and public-private partnerships could unlock as much as US$1.43 trillion in financing annually.<\/p>\n<p>Yet significant gaps remain. In Nigeria, adult account ownership increased from 45.3% in 2021 to 63.3% in 2024, while only 9.1% borrowed through formal financial channels.<\/p>\n<p>Mint Africa by GITEX will focus on converting this gap into economic opportunity, exploring how new technologies and regulatory models can widen access to capital, modernise financial infrastructure and enable African consumers and enterprises to participate more fully in the digital economy.<\/p>\n<p>Its agenda will span tokenisation and real-world assets; agentic AI and intelligent banking; stablecoins and digital currencies; next-generation payments; digital identity; cybersecurity and trust; financial infrastructure; cross-border interoperability; regulatory innovation; capital markets; and investment into Africa\u2019s FinTech economy.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Nurudeen Abubakar Zauro, Technical Adviser to the President on Economic and Financial Inclusion, Nigeria, said: \u201cThe target of achieving a US$1 trillion economy means investment, financial sector deepening, formalisation of the informal sector and enhancing economic inclusion so that the benefits can reach the last mile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt also means bringing more people into the formal financial sector and supporting our ambitious MSMEs with the financing they need to scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Building rails for Africa\u2019s new financial economy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Technology alone will not determine the winners of the next financial era. Infrastructure, regulation and investor confidence will.<\/p>\n<p>Engr. Ganiyu Oseni, Special Adviser on Technology, Broadband and Innovation to the Governor of Lagos State, said: \u201cInfrastructure is policy. You cannot simply regulate an economy into existence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a digital economy, the roads are connectivity, power, identity and talent. Lagos has spent seven years building all four.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oseni told global investors: \u201cLagos is asking you to price us correctly. We would rather have your capital than your admiration, and we would rather have your operational presence than your capital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrica\u2019s financial future will be tokenised, programmable and cross-border. It will settle somewhere. It should settle in Lagos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That transformation also demands new approaches to ownership and investment.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Armstrong Ume Takang, CEO, Ministry of Finance Incorporated (MOFI), Nigeria, said: \u201cAs we create digital tools that allow us to tokenise assets and make those assets widely available to investors, are Nigerians going to continue taking a back seat while others see the value, invest and benefit from the upside? Or are we going to become active participants in the evolving digital asset ecosystem?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is urgency of regulatory coordination as digital assets increasingly transcend national borders.<\/p>\n<p>Tahiru Al Hassan, Head of Oversight and Compliance, Virtual Assets Department, Bank of Ghana, said: \u201cGreater regulatory coordination across Africa will be essential to addressing the inherently cross-border nature of digital assets, avoiding unnecessary fragmentation and building trusted, interoperable ecosystems across the continent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Lagos. Why GITEX. Why now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MINT Africa by GITEX 2027 will be embedded in the week of GITEX Nigeria because the future of finance can no longer be separated from the future of technology.<\/p>\n<p>AI is becoming financial infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Tokenisation is connecting technology with capital markets. Digital identity is connecting citizens with services.<\/p>\n<p>Regulation is converging with innovation. And investment will determine which markets move from experimentation to scale.<\/p>\n<p>Through GITEX\u2019s international network of technology companies, investors, governments and innovators, MINT Africa by GITEX will connect these forces on one platform, with Lagos as its marketplace and Africa as its mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Trixie LohMirmand, CEO of GITEX, said: \u201cNigeria leads Africa\u2019s fintech revolution. Its scale, talent and ambition make Lagos the deserving metropolis for Mint Africa by GITEX.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the next chapter goes far beyond fintech. AI is becoming agentic, assets are becoming tokenised, money programmable and financial markets increasingly borderless. Africa has an opportunity not merely to participate in this transition, but to shape it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLagos is already home to the innovators redefining how money moves across this continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Mint Africa by GITEX at GITEX Nigeria, our ambition is to bring together the technology, regulation, infrastructure and global capital required to turn that innovation into Africa\u2019s next financial economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information, news, and updates on GITEX Nigeria, please visit: www.gitexnigeria.ng.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*GITEX Nigeria announces the launch of Mint Africa by GITEX, in Lagos, as a new future finance platform on which money, innovation, new technology and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"Malam Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, Director-General of NITDA (middle), and Other Dignitaries at the Launch of Mint Africa by GITEX, in Lagos        Photo: NITDA","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_customify_content_layout":"","_customify_sidebar":"","_customify_page_header_display":"default","_customify_disable_header":"","_customify_disable_header_top":"","_customify_disable_header_main":"","_customify_disable_header_bottom":"","_customify_disable_page_title":"","_customify_disable_content_vertical_padding":"","_customify_disable_footer_top":"","_customify_disable_footer_main":"","_customify_disable_footer_bottom":"","_customify_breadcrumb_display":"","_customify_header_transparent_display":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights","category-markets","category-regulators"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Inuwa-at-GITEX-Nigeria-cc.png",672,360,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Inuwa-at-GITEX-Nigeria-cc-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Inuwa-at-GITEX-Nigeria-cc-300x161.png",300,161,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Inuwa-at-GITEX-Nigeria-cc.png",672,360,false],"large":["https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Inuwa-at-GITEX-Nigeria-cc.png",672,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Inuwa-at-GITEX-Nigeria-cc.png",672,360,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Inuwa-at-GITEX-Nigeria-cc.png",672,360,false]},"author_info":{"info":["ConsumerConnect"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/?cat=20\" rel=\"category\">Highlights<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Markets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/?cat=8\" rel=\"category\">Regulators<\/a>","tag_info":"Regulators","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3903,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions\/3903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}