SEZs best bet to power the next phase of financial innovation

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Workers at the United Aryan EPZ Ltd on Ring Road off Thika Superhighway on January 27, 2017.

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There’s a silent evolution underway in Africa’s financial services sector, and it’s not coming from fancy boardrooms. It is emerging from something industrial sounding: Special Economic Zones (SEZs).

Long cast in the role of export-processing zones for factories and logistics parks, SEZs are now being reimagined as launchpads for financial innovation.

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