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Alvin Okari
Managing Director, East Africa - Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda
Capital Pay International
Provides leadership for Capital Pay East Africa’s financial services, digitization and payments business across Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda. Providing digitalization innovation and financial services and tech leadership across emerging markets. Previously held senior leadership roles in banking, Telco and Fintech covering over 15 countries across Africa. He has played a key role in scaling mobile financial services and digital payment ecosystems in Equity’s Finserve, Airtel Money Africa and MTN and Safaricom M-PESA. With over 20 years of experience spanning telecoms and fintech across 16 African countries in both tech and commercials roles. He has contributed to the growth of transformative financial solutions serving millions of consumers and businesses
Speaking at SFF 2026
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4:00–4:30pmFri 20 NovFrontier StageHall 6, Singapore EXPOPremium
Others
From Cash to Global Finance: Connecting the Rails of Digital Payments
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Stanislav SkvirskyChief Executive Officerpayme
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Syed Mohammad KamalPresidentAmerican Chamber of Commerce in Bangladesh
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Alvin OkariManaging Director, East Africa - Kenya, Rwanda and UgandaCapital Pay International
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Anikó SzombatiSenior Subject Matter ExpertGlobal Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)Moderator
About this session
A QR code is only as useful as the network behind it. In markets where people still rely on cash, payment agents and kiosks can provide a crucial entry point to digital services. But turning that access into a dependable payment ecosystem also requires banks’ transaction systems to work smoothly and local networks to connect with the wider financial world.
This panel will examine the often-invisible connections that make digital payments work at scale. How do cash networks and digital rails reinforce each other? What needs to change inside financial institutions to make payments faster and more interoperable? And how can fintech ecosystems collaborate across borders without losing sight of local needs? -
