Fintelligent Africa Alliance 2026 Officially Launched

The Huawei Africa Intelligent Finance Summit 2026 Concludes Successfully

[Shanghai, China, May 19, 2026] The Huawei Africa Intelligent Finance Summit 2026 was held in Shanghai, China, themed "Advancing Fintelligence, Shaping a Smarter Africa", bring together partners, experts, scholars and industry analysts across African countries to discuss the current landscape and development trend of Africa finance industry, and jointly explore new paths, opportunities and futures for the continent’s digital Fintelligence.

Chris Meng, President of Huawei Northern Africa Marketing & Solution, Vice President of Huawei Northern Africa, delivered the opening speech. He pointed out that Over the past 10 years, ICT has evolved from informatization to digitalization and intelligence. These changes have a profound impact on countries, industries and individuals around the whole world. Huawei's vision for finance is to become the most trusted digital transformation partner for regional financial institutions, by integrating mature FinTech experience from China with the needs of Africa to advance fintelligence, and shape a smarter and more prosperous Africa.

Lionel Liu, President, Enterprise Business of Huawei Northern Africa (North, West & Central Africa) in the keynote speech mentioned that Huawei adheres to long-term R&D investment and continuous innovation, powering global digital Fintelligence and intelligence upgrading. For the North African market, relying on the world's leading digital financial industry solutions, full-fledged ecological partner system and solid localized service capabilities, Huawei helps the African financial institutions build high-resilience digital bases, accelerate the upgrade of core systems, release data value and promote the implementation of AI scenarios, supporting Africa's financial industry for high-quality leap-frog development.

At the event, customers and partners from Africa and China, shared their industry practices and cooperation results with Huawei. As an important outcome of the summit, the Fintelligent Africa Alliance 2026 was officially launched. Sponsored by many leading financial institutions, financial technology providers, industry partners in Africa and Huawei. The Alliance aims to integrate the technologies, resources and ecological advantages of all parties, focus on the core needs of Africa's digital Fintelligence and intelligent transformation, and promote the deep implementation of Agentic AI, cloud native, big data and other technologies in key scenarios such as mobile payment, smart credit, risk management and control, to build an open and win-win African financial technology ecology, accelerating the inclusive finance together for a smarter and more prosperous new future of digital finance in Africa.