📚 FinTech and the Emerging Digital Money Market: What Can We Learn from the Global South? (AOM Presenter Symposium 14867)
🗓 Tuesday, Jul 29 2025 • 🕓 8:30AM - 10:00AM • 📍Bella Center, Auditorium 10 - First Floor
Heading to Copenhagen for the Academy of Management Annual Meeting? Learn about financial inclusion, FinTech, and the digital money market from the Global South with: Saouré Kouamé, Jadwiga Karolina Supryn, Luiz Arthur Silva de Faria, Mira Slavova, Arzi Adbi, Melissa Selley Akosua Baba, Daniel Gozman, Keiichi Nakata, Johnson Delali Oware, George Kuk, Stephanie Giamporcaro, Eduardo Henrique Diniz, Ester Barinaga!
Abstract: Digital financial technologies, as enablers of digital currencies and financial services, have sparked the emergence of a new market in the financial industry and become one of the tools used by countries in the Global South to transform their economies and solve grand societal challenges. For example, the remarkably high adoption of Mpesa (Mobile Money) in Kenya illustrates how digital money can improve the livelihoods of a significant majority in the Global South who have been excluded from access to financial services or are underserved. At the same time, introducing these financial digital technologies and currencies (e.g. Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Mobile Money, Central Bank Digital Currency) is disrupting the business environment in the Global South, especially the traditional financial systems. New players such as telecom operators, crypto companies, and other FinTechs have entered the banking sector and are reshaping this business landscape.
Understanding these transformations, challenges, mechanisms, and their impacts has become a scholarly imperative. In particular, the management literature has started to document the innovation process and industry emergence (Wormald et al., 2021; Oborn et al., 2019), financial inclusion (e.g. Adbi, Lee & Singh, 2024, Adbi & Natarajan, 2023; Diniz et al., 2024; Senyo et al., 2021), and complementary currencies (e.g. Kuk & Giamporcaro, 2024; Kuk et al., 2024), but our understanding of this transformation is still limited. This symposium proposal assembles scholars intending to advance this emerging literature by discussing recent and ongoing research. We expect the discussions to provide insights on this topic from varying angles and stimulate more research.
Many Thanks to Sponsor Divisions: OMT, CTO, DEI.
Hope to see many of you there!
Saouré & Jadwiga
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Jadwiga Karolina Supryn
Saïd Business School
University of Oxford
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