Phindu Lipenga
Principal Examiner ICT, Reserve Bank of Malawi
Ms. Phindu Lipenga holds an MSc in computing and management from Leeds University, United Kingdom. She successfully completed an internship in Germany from September 2002 to August 2003 in Leadership in African Business. In addition, she holds a professional certificate in African Leadership from the United Nations ICT task force. She is currently working for Reserve Bank of Malawi as Principal Examiner ICT. She has been trained as Mobile Money Trainer of Trainers. Ms. Lipenga has been part of teams that have developed reporting templates for Credit Reference Bureau to banks and issued accompanying guidelines. She also developed reporting templates for banks to collect financial inclusion statistics. She has worked in the Anti-Money Laundering section of Bank Supervision and has extensive experience in this area. She is a member of the E-Money Task Force that is involved in approving various products and services relating mobile money. In her current role as ICT Examiner, Ms. Lipenga has been involved in drafting guidelines for operational risk, stress testing and ICT Risk management guidelines for issuance to commercial banks.