Austin Okere to speak on “Getting to the Top and Staying There” at the Women Leadership Summit in Lagos

The founder of CWG Plc, Austin Okere, will lead a panel discussion for the Women in Leadership summit which is billed to hold tomorrow Thursday, 1st June 2017 at the Lagos Business School of the Pan-Atlantic University, Ajah. The event has the theme "Getting to the...
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Austin Okere to Speak at IE Business School’s Sixth Annual Africa Day Conference in Madrid

Austin Okere, the founder, CWG Plc, will be the keynote speaker and a panelist at this year’s Annual Africa Day Conference of the IE Business School. The event will hold on Thursday, 25th of May 2017, at the school’s campus in Madrid, Spain. The IE Africa Day is an...
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The Fintech Challenge and the New Face of Banking by Austin Okere (Part 2)

This is the concluding part to the first instalment of this series published last week. Kindly read it here. Money is going Digital Around the world, central banks from England to China have publicly floated the notion of issuing their own national digital currencies....
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The Fintech Challenge and the New Face of Banking By Austin Okere (Part 1)

Should Banks be changing? After centuries of conservatism in receiving deposits and making loans, should banks be changing? There are two main issues stirring the yearning for change: The first being that it is a very difficult Club to join, and hence the large...
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Austin Okere’s Five Forces Model for Analysing the Future of Banking

Having enjoyed centuries of monopoly, assured by the support of regulation, including through stringent requirements to new licensees, the erstwhile secured future of traditional banks is facing a heightened threat of disruption from Financial Technology companies (or...
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