Huawei Showcases Resilient Financial Solutions, Cloud Innovation for Nigeria’s Digital Future

Huawei, a global leader in ICT solutions, recently held a finance forum, which brought together over 35 financial institutions alongside industry leaders and experts to discuss the application of technologies for smart finance, resilient financial architecture, cloud transformation, FinTech, AI-powered call centers, and other key topics.

The Financial Forum themed: ‘Rooted in Nigeria, Co-Building a Smarter Financial Future’, was held during the 3-day Huawei Day Nigeria 2025 event in Lagos, Nigeria.

In a keynote session, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc. (NIBSS), Premier Oiwoh, shared insights on NIBSS’ continuous innovation in Scale and Interoperability. He also engaged in a productive dialogue with other Nigerian industry leaders on digital transformation and AI adoption.

On AI-Infused finance, Chief Solution Architect of Enterprise Finance Account Department, Huawei sub-Saharan Africa, stressed that AI development is unstoppable, and financial innovation never ends.

“However, AI also poses unprecedented challenges to financial infrastructure. Without adequate resilience, we cannot transition from digital to intelligent. Based on the 4 Zeros (Zero Downtime, Zero Wait, Zero Trust, Zero Touch) goals, Huawei proposed the R-A-A-S framework – Reliability, Availability, Autonomy, and Security. This framework, alongside other solutions such as computing,

storage, network, and cloud, to help our financial customers build extremely resilient infrastructure.”

As part of the Forum’s activities, Huawei also showcased its cloud-native solutions and the first local cloud node in Nigeria, serving over 2,000 clients across Sub-Saharan Africa to drive business growth.

Amid Nigeria’s rapidly evolving digital payment landscape, neo-banks are redefining the retail banking sector through cutting-edge technologies and disruptive innovation.

Huawei’s Digital Finance Solution empowers financial institutions to achieve agile digital transformation by establishing three core innovation capabilities: Next-Generation Digital Experience Platforms, Modular Product Architecture, and Future-Ready Technology Infrastructure.

The company reiterated that its Financial AICC Solution delivers a unified omnichannel intelligent customer service platform for the global financial industry. Powered by AI-native architecture, it drives end-to-end workflow optimization and intelligent automation, redefining digital service delivery with enhanced operational efficiency and cognitive engagement capabilities.

Sharing his company’s experience collaborating with Huawei, Network Specialist, Access Bank, Gabriel Oyeyemi, with over 30 years of experience in the industry, stated that “when confronted with challenges including complex network operations, low bandwidth resource utilization, and deployment difficulties, Huawei delivered a comprehensive SD-WAN solution. This solution assisted Access Bank in streamlining operations, improving bandwidth utilization efficiency, and optimising user experience.”

CIO, Technology Group Nigeria at Ecobank, Daniel Eneh, shared insights into the collaborative journey with Huawei. He highlighted the benefits that Huawei’s all-flash OceanStor Dorado has brought to Eco Bank, including high performance, exceptional reliability, and reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Following an insightful discussion, the Managing Director, Finance Account Dept, Huawei Nigeria, Glarie Gao, appreciated the participants for “their long-standing support and trust in Huawei. We remain committed to being the partner of choice for Nigeria’s financial digital transformation and will continue to intensify investments to support the construction of local financial infrastructure in the future.”