Congrats to the all the 2017 CGAP - Consultative Group to Assist the Poor Photo Contest winners! goo.gl/HVe4tL

Every year photographers are invited to illustrate the impact that financial inclusion can have on the over 2 billion unbanked people.

A special acknowledgement to the Africa regional winner, Hailey Tucker, for her photo titled, ‘Video marketing with tablets’, which shows an agent using a mobile tablet to show smallholder farmers in Kenya a video on asset-backed borrowing.

2017 was an exciting year, not just for us, but for the African fintech ecosystem in general. This year we graduated to partnering with a bank and building a solution that allows informal merchants to offer basic banking services in their communities. Keep an eye out early next year for more information. We look forward to an exciting 2018!
Read more via our December newsletter http://bit.ly/2kELBcR

"Fintech innovators need to consolidate and scale in order to bring affordable financial services to disadvantaged and low-income groups." Otim Gerald, co-founder of Ensibuuko​
Source: African Fintech Unconference

We've been named a global Top 100 inclusive fintech by BFA.

Read more about the impact of inclusive fintech:
https://goo.gl/x5WwLy

Our November newsletter features a thought leadership blog by our CEO, Vahid Monadjem, on 'Broadening Financial Inclusion Through Informal Sector Innovation' - read more here https://goo.gl/9PKm2o

For more newsletter highlights visit https://goo.gl/rnicrc

'Africa as a whole is a very appealing prospect for the rest of the world, as the market is growing at 6%.'

Listen to some thoughts from our CEO at the 2017 Global Business Forum Africa.

Remember the African Fintech Unconference we hosted with the BFA, supported by the Mastercard Foundation?

Our latest thought leadership blog by Kim Humby highlights the four core challenges facing fintech innovators shared by unconference attendees. Read more https://goo.gl/LJ9jQa
Published by ITNewsAfrica.com

Nomanini CEO Vahid Monadjem joins prominent global leaders at Global Business Forum on Africa.

Next month he will head to Dubai to join a panel discussing the topic 'Future Africa – Tomorrow’s Business Leaders'.

**Save the date**

Join the Future Network on Oct 19 for a conversation on "The Future of Digital Finance in serving the Unbanked". They have an amazing group of experts sharing their insights and it promises to be an exciting discussion!

The Future Network presents a series of bi-monthly events for young professionals to network and increase their awareness about businesses generating positive impact.

***Nomanini in the news***

Read more about how our payments platform boosts the informal economy and increase financial inclusion in Africa.

MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge update:
Our video is now online!

Watch it to learn more about how our innovative payments platform increases inclusivity in informal markets in Africa.

Nomanini has been selected as a Finalist in the MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge!

We are one of four finalists (from among 300 organisations) in the Financial Inclusion category and have received a $35,000 award in recognition of our transformative approach to driving economic opportunity in the digital age.

CEO Vahid Monadjem will be attending the MIT IIC Celebration in Boston on October 12 to receive the award. As a finalist, we are in the running for one of four Grand Prize awards, whose total prize will be $150,000.

CTO, Dale Humby, is currently in Poland at the Google Developer Days Europe conference.

As a Google Developer Expert for the Google Cloud Platform, Dale regularly attends and speaks at various software development, cloud technology and Google events.

More info --> https://developers.google.com/events/gdd-europe/