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      Hortense Mudenge

      Hortense Mudenge

      Chief Executive Officer

      Kigali International Financial Centre

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      Hortense MUDENGE is the Chief Executive Officer of Kigali International Financial Centre, the agency promoting and developing Rwanda as a leading financial destination for international investment and cross-border transactions in Africa.

      Hortense is a seasoned management consultant, with over 12 years of experience in private sector development and finance.

      Hortense holds an MBA from Hult International Business School in the US and is a graduate of the United States International University- Africa.

      Speaking at SFF 2026

      • 4:40–5:00pmThu 19 NovPolicy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen

        Technology Rewiring

        Financing Financial Infrastructure in Emerging Markets

        Policy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen

        About this session

        Building the infrastructure for financial inclusion and cross-border connectivity is one challenge. Financing it is another, and it's the one that usually gets skipped over in the excitement about what could be built. Is the binding constraint on financial inclusion the technology, or the capital to build and sustain it?

        This panel brings together leaders from a small economy building its own digital public infrastructure, a hub positioning itself to draw global capital into a fast-growing regional market, and a development bank whose entire mandate is getting credit to populations mainstream finance still doesn't reach. The dialogue will focus on where the funding for this actually comes from, state budgets, development finance, or private capital drawn in by the right market positioning, and what it takes for a smaller or developing market to make itself genuinely investable.