Mauritius As A Bridge Jurisdiction: Connecting Africa To The Future Of FinTech
Webinar
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Background: Africa’s financial services sector is undergoing a rapid transformation, driven by FinTech innovations that are reshaping how individuals and businesses access and use financial services. Accelerated smartphone penetration, wider internet access, and the need to overcome limited traditional banking infrastructure are fuelling growth and attracting significant investment across payments, digital assets, tokenisation and RegTech, amongst others.
Positioned at the strategic crossroads of Africa and Asia, Mauritius offers a well-regulated, transparent, and investor-friendly International Financial Centre (IFC) with a progressive regulatory framework, including the Regulatory Sandbox Licence, the Payment Intermediary Services Licence, and the Virtual Asset and Initial Token Offering Services (VAITOS) Licence. Mauritius stands out as one of the few African jurisdictions where FinTech is comprehensively regulated, offering companies the clarity, and credibility they need to operate and scale with confidence.
These forward-looking legislative tools provide regulatory certainty and operational efficiency, enabling FinTech firms to test, scale, and launch innovative solutions across African markets while maintaining robust oversight. Backed by a skilled and adaptable workforce of multilingual ICT professionals, Mauritius stands as a competitive, future-ready FinTech jurisdiction, ideally positioned to drive growth and innovation in the region. This webinar will explore how the Mauritius IFC connects Africa to the global FinTech ecosystem, providing unmatched opportunities for scaling and market entry.
Participants will gain:
- Understanding of Africa’s FinTech growth drivers, including technology adoption trends, and investment flows.
- Insights into Mauritius’s progressive FinTech regulatory ecosystem, including the Regulatory Sandbox Licence, Payment Intermediary Services Licence, and VAITOS Licence.
- Practical guidance on how Mauritius can serve as a launchpad for FinTech expansion into African markets, offering market access and operational efficiency
Speakers:
Mrs. Jaya Doomun-Dookun has spent more than 15 years promoting Mauritius as an Investment and Business destination to the international business community. She is currently working as Senior Manager at the Economic Development Board and particularly involved in the development and promotion of the Mauritian Financial Services Sector. Jaya has participated in various international conferences and high-level ministerial roadshows to promote Mauritius as an international Financial Centre and has succeeded in encouraging a number of International financial companies to set up in the country.
Jaya started her career at DTOS Management Company whereby she was responsible for the administration and Management of a portfolio of Global Business Companies & Trust. She has also worked for the Financial Services Promotion Agency, a Mauritian Government agency responsible for promotion and development of Mauritius as an International Financial Centre.
Jaya holds a Master’s degree in International Business and a BSC (Hons) in Economics and Management from the University of London. She is also a certified mediator from Centre de Mediation et D’Arbitrage de Paris and MCCI Arbitration and Mediation Centre.
Mrs. Renu Audit is legally trained across jurisdictions like India, UK and Mauritius, with more than 25 years of experience in commercial, corporate and financial services regulatory environment. Over last two decades, she has gained extensive know-how of financial regulations and of business conduct in Mauritius for having worked both with regulatory agencies and private sector in Mauritius.
In her career, Mrs Audit has actively been involved in leadership roles and participated in various senior level delegations, national committees and international forums. She has actively contributed in industry initiatives, governmental taskforce, regularly spoken at conferences, and lately been actively involved in exit of Mauritius from FATF’s grey list.
Mrs. Jessica Naga is a FinTech barrister and entrepreneur. She is the Group CEO of the Mauritian headquartered MINDEX Group of companies, which includes MINDEX Digital Custodian Limited, the first licensed Virtual Asset Service Provider of Mauritius, and MINDEX Limited, the first digital securities exchange of Mauritius. Jessica co-founded the MINDEX Group with the goal of addressing financial infrastructure deficiencies in Africa and using blockchain technology to optimise the creation, storing and trading of assets.
In 2020, Jessica was the laureate of Women In Africa 54 (WIA 54) in the digital sphere, and in 2021 and 2022, formed part of the 100 International Women in FinTech Power list of Innovate Finance, UK. She was also the winner of the Most Innovative FinTech CEO 2024 award, by APAC Insider Magazine.
Mr. Sandeep Chagger is the Group Chief Operating Officer of Peach Payments. He has over a decade long experience in business strategy, growth and transformation in the verticals of Banking, FinTech and Financial Markets. Sandeep achieved a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Rajasthan in India, is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst and holds executive education certificates from LSE [Africa and Global Transformation] and University of Oxford [Fintech].
Sandeep Chagger is the Group Chief Operating Officer at Peach Payments. He has over a decade of experience in business strategy, growth, and transformation within the verticals of banking, fintech, and financial markets. Sandeep holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Rajasthan in India. He is also a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst and has executive education certificates from the London School of Economics LSE in Africa and Global Transformation and the University of Oxford in Fintech.
Speaker(s):
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Mrs. Jaya Doomun-Dookun
Senior Manager
Economic Development Board, Mauritius
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Mrs. Renu Audit
Director
Financial Services Commission, Mauritius
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Mrs. Jessica Naga
CEO
Mindex Group
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Mr. Sandeep Chagger
Group Chief Operating Officer
Peach Payments
Chairman:
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Hugh Morris
Senior Research Partner
Z/Yen Group