Every fintech app, every instant transfer, every “payment successful” notification you’ve stopped noticing runs on decisions made by people you’ve never heard of.
This September, a good number of them are showing up in Lagos and Abuja at the same time.
GITEX Nigeria returns from 31 August to 3 September 2026, and folded inside it is FDX Nigeria Future of Finance & Digital Asset Xchange. landing in Lagos on 3 September.
If GITEX is the big tent for Africa’s tech ecosystem, FDX is the room where the money conversation actually happens: digital payments, cybersecurity, blockchain, and the regulation trying to keep pace with all of it.
The lineup reads like a cross-section of everyone currently rewriting how West Africans handle money. Bharat Soni, Chief Information Security Officer at Guaranty Trust Bank, brings the perspective of someone defending one of Nigeria’s largest banks against threats that evolve weekly.
Lasbery C. Oludimu, Group VP of Operations at Yellow Card, has spent years scaling crypto access across a continent where currency volatility isn’t theoretical. Erwin Anet N’Guetta, Chief Digital Officer at Côte d’Ivoire’s National Bank of Investment, represents a Francophone market too often left out of Nigeria-centric fintech conversations.
And Caleb Afaglo, President of Ghana’s Chamber of Digital Asset and Blockchain Innovations, arrives as one of the clearer regulatory voices trying to make sense of digital assets before the rules get written around them instead of with them.
Put four people like that in one building, and you’re not just watching a panel,you’re watching four different countries’ approaches to the same problem sit next to each other for the first time.
The pitch behind FDX Nigeria is straightforward once you strip the branding away: money that can’t move instantly, securely, and at scale becomes a bottleneck for everything else commerce, remittances, small business growth, all of it.
As digital wallets, embedded finance, and cross-border settlement keep expanding, payment infrastructure has quietly become one of the most contested pieces of real estate in African finance.
The institutions that solve interoperability first won’t just process transactions; they’ll end up powering entire ecosystems built on top of their rails.
That’s the argument FDX Nigeria is built around, and it’s why the event is pulling together banks, regulators, and payment innovators rather than just app developers pitching investors.
The Bigger GITEX Picture
FDX doesn’t stand alone. It sits inside GITEX Nigeria’s wider push, which this year leans on the idea that no single actor government, bank, or startup can build Africa’s digital economy solo.
Redington MEA’s regional role captures that thinking well: the company has spent years expanding enterprise technology access and building the channel partnerships that let bigger digital transformation projects actually reach African markets.
As Redington’s Serkan Çelik put it, GITEX Nigeria mirrors how much West Africa’s tech ecosystem has matured, and how much of that progress comes down to partnerships built to last rather than one-off deals.
That framing matters because GITEX Nigeria isn’t positioning itself as an event for one type of attendee.
Founders scaling a company, investors hunting the next opportunity, policymakers shaping the rules, enterprise leaders driving transformation from the inside, the organisers are explicit that there’s a seat built for each of them, not just the loudest voice in the room.
GITEX Nigeria runs 31 August–3 September 2026 across Abuja and Lagos. FDX Nigeria by GITEX takes place 3 September in Lagos specifically. Tickets for both are available at visit.gitexnigeria.ng.
For anyone who’s ever wondered who actually decides how fast their money moves, or whether crypto in West Africa gets built with regulators or around them, this is where those conversations are happening out loud, in the same rooms, on the same days.