The growth of ecommerce has been accelerated by the need for small and medium-sized businesses to remain open and connected with consumers in a restricted world. Advances in areas like payment technology and data analytics are enabling more SMBs to reach entirely new audiences.

Developing businesses of scale in Sub-Saharan Africa holds many challenges. The way small and medium-sized businesses there are financed is changing, and managers will need to fully understand the challenges of scaling up products and services while becoming more digitally oriented.

This Digital Dialogue, organised by FT Live in partnership with Visa, will discuss the disruption and subsequent transformation of commerce amongst small and medium-sized businesses operating in Sub-Saharan Africa as they adopt new digital tools and resources to fundamentally change how they connect with customers.

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