Ife Badejo speaks at FinTech Islands 2025
Are we looking past our own for innovations and business Ideas when it comes to entrepreneurship and financial services?
Ife Badejo, Founder and CEO of Islandpreneur International, was one of the speakers at FinTech Islands, the largest conference focused on financial technology in the Caribbean region. Fintech Islands, which was held at the Wyndham Grand Barbados on January 22-24, 2025, was focused on three pillars: Policy, Entrepreneurship and Talent, and brought together a community of leaders who are redefining financial services and to serve as a catalyst for a more inclusive financial system in the Caribbean region and around the world.
Some of the key tracks at the Conference were Intelligent Money, Digital Transformation and Modernizing payments with deep dives into discussing Instant, interoperable and Borderless Payments.
Ife Badejo is scheduled to be one of the judges along side five other esteemed judges, of the FinTech Start up competition which will feature nine Companies within the FinTech space, who will pitch their ideas to win a $10,000.00 grand prize and be showcased at the largest FinTech conference in the region, with hundreds of leaders from around the World present.
Our own Ife Badejo has been an advocate for FinTech solutions for small businesses on the island since 2017. Most recently in her role as Vice President of the St. Maarten Chamber of Commerce and Industry (COCI), she helped to design and facilitate a roundtable discussion: Unlock Global Payments hosted by COCI. Out of these discussions, stakeholders were challenged to build strategic relationships and to facilitate more FinTech solutions on St. Maarten, especially for micro, small and medium enterprises.
Through Islandpreneur Ife works with local and International stakeholders to help Island based business to innovate and thrive by equipping them with actionable insights and a global network of experts building a community of serious and ambitious Islandpreneurs. find out how you can become a member of Islandpreneur. For more information about projects or membership, email hello [at] islandpreneur [dot] co or whatsapp +1-721-520-0033.
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