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Issa Yomenou Boukari
Managing Partner
Lead Finance & Advisory Institutions, Trade & International Development
Issa Yomenou Boukari is the Managing Partner of Lead Finance & Advisory (Lead FA), a CEMAC-licensed accounting, audit and advisory firm headquartered in Port-Gentil with an office in Libreville, Gabon. With over 15 years of experience, he began his career at PwC Gabon, held a senior role at Baker Tilly Gabon, and served as chief accountant for five SINOPEC group oil companies. Since founding Lead FA in 2019, he has built a team of around 20 professionals serving some 40 clients across oil & gas, hospitality, construction, trade and NGOs. He is also a statutory auditor and a court-appointed expert, and is developing digital finance solutions for OHADA/CEMAC SMEs.
Speaking at the summit
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3:30–5:00pmMon 16 NovRoundtableOpen
Chaktomuk - Rails Across Borders
From Bilateral Links to Regional Networks: Connecting Financial Ecosystems at Scale
About this session
Bilateral payment links can prove that cross-border interoperability works, but each new connection also adds another set of agreements, standards and supervisory relationships to maintain. At some point, adding country pairs one by one becomes less efficient than building a common network. Regional and multilateral initiatives are testing that alternative through shared platforms and settlement layers. The roundtable examines when bilateral connectivity should give way to multilateral architecture, how such systems should be governed and what individual countries must retain control over when infrastructure becomes shared. It closes by identifying the smallest credible cross-regional network that could demonstrate the model in practice.
