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Alon Eitan
Chief Executive Officer
Fido Solutions
Alon Eitan is the CEO Fido, a pan-African digital banking and credit platform serving underbanked consumers in Ghana, Uganda, Zambia, and South Africa. Under his leadership, Fido has scaled to 230+ employees and built the AI-native consumer-credit rails for the continent — most recently winning six 2026 Ghana FinTech Awards, including Fintech & Bank Partnership of the Year for its instant-lending integration with Uber.
Alon brings a finance and operating background to the business: a CPA and former PwC auditor, he holds an MSc in Finance and a BA from Tel Aviv University. Before Fido, he led private-equity work and held strategy and M&A roles in the startup ecosystem, including running five acquisitions as VP Strategy at Guesty.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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4:45–5:15pmThu 19 NovIgnite StageHall 5, Singapore EXPOOpen
Others
Can Technology Make Every Small Business Bankable?
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Suttipong KanakakornChief Executive OfficerSCB TechX
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Alon EitanChief Executive OfficerFido Solutions
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Dr. Dmytro KolechkoChief Executive OfficerWing Bank
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Daniel O'DonnellChief Technology OfficerFourTwoThreeModerator
About this session
Millions of viable small businesses remain underserved not because they lack economic activity, but because traditional financial systems struggle to see, assess and serve them efficiently. As AI, alternative data, digital lending and transaction-banking infrastructure improve, can financial institutions build a fundamentally different model for SME finance?
This session explores how financial institutions can use richer business data to understand SMEs, automate credit and working-capital decisions, and build scalable digital infrastructure that lowers the cost of serving smaller businesses. It will examine what is already working, what still prevents these models from scaling, and whether the next phase of financial inclusion will come not from creating more financial products, but from making previously invisible businesses visible and bankable. -
