{"id":608888,"date":"2022-07-25T15:01:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T13:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=608888"},"modified":"2022-07-25T15:01:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T13:01:45","slug":"online-fintech-conference-2022-mastercards-muhammad-nana-on-the-launch-of-fintech-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/608888\/online-fintech-conference-2022-mastercards-muhammad-nana-on-the-launch-of-fintech-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Online FinTech Conference 2022 \u2013 Mastercard\u2019s Muhammad Nana on the launch of Fintech Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muhammad Nana is Mastercard\u2019s VP of Fintech, Enabler, and PSP Partnerships for the EEMEA region.<\/p>\n<p>He has over 6 years of experience at Mastercard and has also worked at leading South African companies like MTN and Standard Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Nana has extensive knowledge of the payments processing industry and has delivered many complex projects for this environment.<\/p>\n<p>He is passionate about the mobile payments industry and believes that this is the future of payments.<\/p>\n<p>In this conference session, Nana explains how Mastercard leveraged its dominant position in the payments industry to become a leader in the FinTech space, too.<\/p>\n<p>He then highlights the major trends and challenges that Mastercard is seeing in the FinTech industry.<\/p>\n<p>Nana also discusses Mastercard\u2019s launch of Fintech Express in the Middle East and Africa region and explains what this program is all about.<\/p>\n<p>He expands on the three core modules of Fintech Express and concludes by highlighting what sets this program apart from other solutions on the market.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Muhammad Nana can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ZIiXPAYKYM\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mastercard\u2019s Muhammad Nana unpacks the launch of Fintech Express in the Middle East and Africa region and explains what this program is all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":608894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[10335,26,1534,3820,17146,6160,4440],"class_list":["post-608888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-banking","tag-headline","tag-mastercard","tag-mobile-payments","tag-online-fintech-conference-2022","tag-payments","tag-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610310,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608888\/revisions\/610310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}