The Vice President of Ghana, Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, has announced that the country will work its continental partners to pilot a digital trade corridor aimed at deepening Africa’s financial and digital integration.
Speaking at the 3I African Summit on Wednesday May 6, 2026 in Accra under the theme “The Next Frontier: Shaping Africa’s Integrated FinTech Future,” the Vice President described the initiative as a concrete step towards positioning Africa as an active participant in the global digital economy on its own terms.
According to the Vice President,the pilot corridor will focus on three key areas namely mobile money interoperability, mutual recognition of digital identity for cross-border Know Your Customer (KYC) processes and harmonised electronic invoicing across participating countries.
“Ghana will work with everyone, Rwanda, Zambia and other partners to pilot a continental digital trade corridor. This pilot, which will be implemented,tested and measured, will focus on mobile money, interoperability, mutual recognition of digital identity for cross-border KYC and harmonised electronic invoicing.” The Vice President said.
Touching on digital identity, the Vice President noted that interoperable identity systems are essential to unlocking participation at a large scale ,arguing that without shared and mutually recognised digital identity infrastructure cross-border financial transactions will remain fragmented and exclusionary.
“Interoperable identity systems are therefore essential to unlock participation at scale.” She added
The Vice President concluded by saying that “Economic sovereignty now also depends on integration, particularly digital integration, because this is where value is created, exchanged and controlled.”
The 3I African Summit is a major financial technology and digital economy event organized annually by the Ghanaian Bank Of Ghana in partnership with other institutions which focuses on Innovation, Investment, and Impact.
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