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Owureku Asare
Director, FinTech & Innovation
Bank of Ghana
Owureku Asare leads Fintech and Innovation at Bank of Ghana, where he is responsible for policy and regulatory initiatives to strengthen the country’s digital financial ecosystem. With over 20 years of experience in banking, payments, and digital financial services, he has driven digital transformation projects across 33 African markets and forged strategic partnerships to digital finance and financial health in Sub-Saharan Africa .
He has worked closely with global partners such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mastercard Foundation, CGAP, and the Better Than Cash Alliance, and co-founded the Financial Inclusion Forum Africa to advance innovation and financial inclusion across the continent.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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4:40–5:15pmWed 18 NovFounders StageHall 2, Singapore EXPOPremium
Policy Rewiring
Is Cross-Border Mutual Recognition Through Sandboxes Now Closer or Farther?
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Juan Pablo OrtegaCo-founder & Chief Executive OfficerYuno
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Owureku AsareDirector, FinTech & InnovationBank of Ghana
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Shweta Rajpal KohliPresident & Chief Executive OfficerStartup Policy Forum
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Friederike LangeHead of Digital Finance, Payment Services & CybersecurityGerman Federal Ministry of Finance
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Arjun Vir SinghPartner, Global Head of Fintech & Digital AssetsArthur D. LittleModerator
About this session
Expanding across fragmented regional markets forces digital finance startups into repetitive licensing cycles that multiply compliance costs and stall international scale. Recent agreements between Rwanda’s central bank and its counterparts in Ghana and Kenya to establish fintech licence passporting show that cross-border supervisory reciprocity is moving from principle to practice. A recent survey by TechCabal Research revealed that 62.5% of regional fintechs already operate internationally or plan to, with an identical proportion backing passporting frameworks. This session convenes financial regulators and founders to examine how central banks can align supervisory frameworks and establish mutual recognition standards without compromising financial stability or compliance oversight.
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