Strategic Intelligence from Advantage Evans Global Regulatory Strategies
Africa's Digital Financial Infrastructure and the Case for a New Monetary Order
The rails of African finance are being rebuilt in real time. Licensing regimes are live, sandboxes are admitting firms, and capital is moving. This briefing series maps what is being built, who is building it, and what it means for every institution with a decision to make. Subscribers receive the analysis as it releases, ahead of the full report in August 2026.
Correspondent-banking corridors still route intra-African value across oceans and out of continental hands. A transfer between neighbors can take days, incur layered fees, and settle in a third currency that neither party uses or holds.
Meanwhile, market-entry and licensing rules remain unclear at exactly the points where firms are trying to operate. That architecture is the obstacle. Not any regulator, not any institution, not any nation. The obstacle is a system that was never built for the people and firms now outgrowing it.
Dr. Tonya M. Evans is Founder and CEO of Advantage Evans Global Regulatory Strategies. She advises virtual asset service providers (VASPs) on market entry and licensing, financial institutions on digital asset compliance and risk, and policymakers on framework design across the United States and West Africa.
Institutions and VASPs planning West Africa market entry can start an advisory conversation at TonyaEvans.com.
Two live sessions. Register once for both, ahead of DASA 2026.
The Infrastructure Story: mobile money, continental settlement, the currency question, and crypto as infrastructure. Parts I through IV.
Both sessions run 12:30–2:00 PM ET (4:30–6:00 PM Accra), with replay access included.
The complete report, all seven parts compiled and designed, releases ahead of DASA 2026 in Accra. Registrants are first to know and first in line.
Mobile money proved the demand. This briefing tracks what gets built on top of it, and what it means for your next move.
The Framework
A named framework for how African nations build digital financial capacity on their own terms, engaging global capital and technology without surrendering control of the rails, the data, or the policy agenda.
For regulators, a vocabulary for decisions already underway. For institutions and VASPs, the lens for reading what markets will ask of you before you arrive. Subscribers are introduced to the framework first.
Political sovereignty without monetary sovereignty is a tragic illusion. The question for this generation is not whether the rails get rebuilt. It is who holds the blueprints.
Dr. Tonya M. Evans, From Momo to Crypto™
If your mandate touches African digital finance, this briefing was written with you in the room.
Two sessions. Wed, Sep 2 and Wed, Sep 9. Seats capped at 100.
Wed, Sep 2 · 12:30–2:00 PM ET (4:30–6:00 PM Accra)
Wed, Sep 9 · 12:30–2:00 PM ET (4:30–6:00 PM Accra)
$150 USD for both sessions. Complimentary seats available for verified officials, students, and educators.