What you'll learn
Understand the Fintech Business Landscape Explain how fintech is changing banking, payments, customer behavior, and financial inclusion.
Recognize Digital Payments as a Business Model Understand how digital payments create value for customers, merchants, banks, fintechs, and the wider economy.
dentify Key Market Players and Ecosystem Roles Recognize the role of banks, fintechs, regulators, card schemes, merchants, telecoms, and technology providers.
Connect Innovation with Revenue and Growth Understand how fintech products generate revenue, drive customer engagement, support partnerships, and enable scalable growth.
Think Strategically About Fintech Opportunities Evaluate fintech and digital payment opportunities from a business, market, customer, and sustainability perspective.
Why you should attend
Fintech and digital payments are no longer optional topics; they are shaping the future of banking, business, entrepreneurship, and everyday financial behavior. This session will help you understand the business side of fintech in a simple, practical, and engaging way.
You will learn how digital payments create value, how banks and fintech companies work together, how payment products generate growth, and why financial inclusion is becoming a major opportunity across emerging markets.
By attending, you will gain a clearer understanding of the fintech ecosystem, the key players, the business models behind digital payments, and the opportunities available for students, professionals, entrepreneurs, and future business leaders.
This session is designed to simplify complex concepts, connect them to real-life examples, and help you think strategically about the future of finance.
Session requirements
Basic interest in business, finance, banking, technology, entrepreneurship, or digital transformation.
Willingness to participate, ask questions, and connect the concepts to real-life examples.
A notebook or digital device to capture key ideas, terms, and business insights.
An open mindset to understand how fintech and digital payments are changing the future of finance and business.
More about hosts & guests
Ali Ahmed Elsheikh is a Business Strategy, Product, and Growth Executive with 24+ years in banking, fintech, digital payments, cards, partnerships, and governance. He specializes in turning strategy into scalable business models, product roadmaps, KPI-driven execution, and sustainable growth across banks, fintechs, startups, and MENA ecosystem initiatives.
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