Ecobank Group, the main pan-African banking group, and AMA Academy, the pan-African e-learning platform offering free coaching to African journalists, announce that the inaugural cohort of journalists have graduated from their fintech-focused Finance Journalism Coaching Programme.
The Programme is a ground-breaking initiative offering 5 weeks of coaching modules overlaying the historical past of economic companies, blockchain, open banking and the fintech transformation of economic companies and regulation. The course is specifically designed to coach and construct the capability of journalists overlaying finance, enterprise and expertise by equipping them with the talents, information and expertise that they should totally perceive and precisely report on the problems, challenges, alternatives and advantages of the African monetary sector.
Eloine Barry, Managing Director of the AMA Academy, mentioned: “The Finance Journalism Coaching Programme delivers on the massive want to supply high-level information and understanding to African journalists on the rising developments in finance, and particularly these regarding the quickly evolving fintech panorama. It’s notably becoming that we’re collaborating with the Ecobank Group for this programme because it shares our imaginative and prescient of making a world the place everybody ought to be capable to study in regards to the new developments that have an effect on the event of our continent.”
“This fintech coaching course aligns with Ecobank’s technique to assist the expansion of the African fintech ecosystem. We applaud this primary graduating cohort for his or her willingness and curiosity throughout these coaching modules. They and future attendees of this programme will assist to make sure the strong media reporting essential to drive public schooling and consciousness of the monetary sector throughout the African continent. We additionally thank our associate AMA Academy for efficiently implementing the programme,” mentioned Christiane Bossom, Communications Supervisor, Ecobank Group.
In August 2022 over 400 journalists from 30 African international locations had been chosen to take part on this free Monetary Journalism Coaching Programme.
Fintech Journalist of the Yr 2022 Awards
Mr. Felix Abely, Editor-in-Chief of Congo Media Plus from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Joseph Ndamu Sandu, Editor of Enterprise Instances in Zimbabwe, received the Fintech Journalist of the Yr Award for Francophone Africa and Anglophone Africa respectively. They had been chosen because the winners by a jury of consultants and journalists for writing one of the best fintech articles of their ultimate task of the programme. The 2 winners got free entry to the Africa Monetary Business Summit, courtesy of Jeune Afrique Media Plus, which came about on 28 – 29 November in Lomé.
Felix Abely (L) and Joseph Sandu (R), Finest Fintech Journalists of the Yr
On behalf of the 2 winners, Joseph Ndamu Sandu, mentioned: “We pay tribute to pan-African financial institution, Ecobank, and its associate African Media Company for delivering a programme that provides journalists the fitting toolbox to report with actual information and understanding on the fintech revolution.”
A complete of 22 journalists who accomplished the coaching modules competed for the Finest Fintech Journalist Award, 11 in Francophone Africa and 11 in Anglophone Africa. In Francophone Africa, Anselme Akeko and Acheck Yacoub Hassan completed second and third respectively, whereas Gugu Lourie and Isaac Aidoo completed 2nd and third in Anglophone Africa.
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Ade Ayeyemi, Ecobank Group Chief Govt Officer and the winners
The Ecobank Group Chief Govt Officer, Ade Ayeyemi, congratulated the winners as he handed them their awards on the sidelines of the African Monetary Business Summit. He additionally congratulated all individuals within the coaching program and highlighted the worth that coaching of economic journalists brings inside the context of Africa’s Monetary Sector.
Future coaching applications might be communicated in the end.
Distributed by African Media Company (AMA) on behalf of Ecobank Group and AMA Academy.