Thirteen years at the centre of digital finance
Regulators, payment networks, banks, fintechs, investors and development institutions. One place, every November, in Cairo.
The strategic platform for payments, fintech and inclusion
PAFIX is where the region's digital finance agenda is set out and put to work. Powered by the Central Bank of Egypt, it brings regulators, payment networks, banks, fintechs, investors and development institutions together for four days of exhibition and forum in Cairo.
The forum sets out the policy. The exhibition floor shows the technology that delivers it: payment rails, digital banking, identity, security and inclusion, from the institutions that build and run them.
- Where policy meets infrastructure.
- Where innovation meets regulation.
- Where inclusion meets economic empowerment.
To become the leading regional financial transformation platform, strengthening the financial corridor between Africa, the Middle East, and global markets.
“How can nations scale digital finance while safeguarding stability, trust, and sovereignty?”
What is at stake
Scaling digital finance touches every part of a national economy. PAFIX brings the people responsible for each of these to the same table:
- Economic competitiveness
- Monetary sovereignty
- SME growth and entrepreneurship
- Inclusion and poverty reduction
- Cross-border trade
- Financial system resilience
Built around a national agenda
PAFIX is powered by the Central Bank of Egypt, which leads the country's digital transformation and financial inclusion agenda. At the 2025 opening, the Central Bank's stand was the first the Prime Minister visited.
PAFIX '25 delivered on its theme, "Rewriting the Financial DNA": a platform for innovation, policy dialogue and regional collaboration that connected regulators, innovators and investors and set the pace for digital transformation across the Middle East and Africa.
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PAFIX and Cairo ICT: a formula of success
PAFIX runs alongside Cairo ICT, the leading technology event in Africa and the Middle East. One badge opens both, so the vendors, integrators and mobile operators behind digital finance are in the halls next door.
Be at PAFIX 2026
Trade visitors attend free, and one badge opens PAFIX and every hall of Cairo ICT. Companies can apply for a stand now.