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Luca Antonio Ricci, Advisor IMF African Department
Tommaso Mancini Griffoli, Division Chief IMF Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Xiangming Li, Advisor IMF African Department

Abebe Aemro Selassie, Director of the IMF African Department, Tobias Adrian, Financial Counsellor and Director IMF Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Vitaliy Kramarenko, Deputy Director IMF African Department

A great thank you to all the key speakers:
Lesetja Kganyago, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank,
Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, Governor of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO),
Bo Li, IMF Deputy Managing Director

This was organized as part of the IMF African Department Working Group on CBDC and Digital Payment that I am co-leading.

The rise of digital money and payments has transformed the payment landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa. Policymakers explored the future policy agenda related to digital payments, aimed at improving financial inclusion and payment efficiency.

Thanks to the WAEMU regional authorities with whom we had excellent meetings, and to the WAEMU team for the tireless efforts.

“That’s the world we’re going into,” he predicted, adding “I don’t think we’re going back to the one we had before.”