The SME Finance Forum’s Fireside Chat, now called "Leader Dialogues", is a new series of one-on-one interviews with CEOs, senior executives of financial institutions and technology companies as well as financial sector regulators.

 

In this edition, Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, the head for the M-Pesa Africa leadership team, talks to Matt Gamser about digital payments in Africa, and how M-Pesa, as a payment service provider enabled SMEs and fintech communities to connect to the ecosystem, as well as the impact of COVID-19 on access to working capital for SMEs, and the role of education on financial literacy.