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John Mukono
Chief Executive Officer
Kenswitch
John Mukono is a seasoned payments executive and fintech leader with over a decade of experience building, scaling, and commercialising digital payment infrastructure across Africa. A recognised specialist in digital payments and fintech partnerships, he has led customer-centric payment strategies for banks, fintechs, and enterprise businesses operating in complex and regulated markets.
As the CEO, John works at the intersection of technology, regulation, and partnerships to deliver secure, interoperable, and scalable payment systems that drive measurable adoption and commercial outcomes. His current focus is on Africa’s transition to instant payments, applying AI and tokenisation in practical ways to strengthen real-time payment rails, improve trust and risk management, and expand access within regulated financial environments across the continent.
Interventions lors du Sommet
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1:30–3:00pmdim. 15 nov.RoundtableOpen
Chaktomuk - Rails Across Borders
Making Cross-Border Payments Work: QR, Remittances and Trade Settlement
À propos de cette session
Cross-border payments fail in different ways depending on the use case. QR payments may work domestically but stop at the border. Remittances can remain expensive even where digital channels are widely available. Trade settlement can still pass through third-country currencies and correspondent banks despite growing commercial links between emerging markets. The roundtable breaks the corridor problem into these separate channels and identifies what prevents each one from working today. It examines standards for extending QR interoperability, where remittance costs can realistically be removed, and what conditions are required for local-currency trade settlement.
