The Annual retreat of the Committee of E-Business Industry Heads (CeBIH) was held at Abeokuta on Dec 2nd and 3rd, 2021. Sponsored by Flutterwave, the Banks, and many other fintech companies, the Retreat focused on Payment innovations and the trends to expect in the coming year with participants coming from all sectors of e-business processes. The […]
The Chief Executive Officer of 9PSB, Branka Mracajac, has stressed the importance of Payment Service Banks (PSBs) in supporting the country’s financial inclusion drive. She declared that PSBs offer last mile delivery of financial solutions to the unbanked, under-banked and underserved who in most cases are neglected due to geographical and infrastructural barriers. Mracajac made this […]
Africa’s leading integrated payments and digital commerce company, Interswitch, has been confirmed as a sponsor of the 2021 Annual Committee of e-Business Industry Heads (CeBIH) Retreat for the fifth consecutive year. The digital payment company has been an ardent supporter of the Committee and its objectives, underpinned by a shared objective of enabling further development […]
Open banking is one of the most important regulations to come to banking in the last decade and in Nigeria, it will be a gamechanger. It’s crazy the amount of information banks have about us. When you want to open a bank account, the bank collects your address, tax ID information, utility bills, and your […]
The managing director and CEO of Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation [NDIC] Alhaji Umar Ibrahim said that the Central Bank of Nigeria [CBN] financial inclusion strategy is more than having engagements with the bank. Ibrahim said, “Financial inclusion does not only mean walking into a bank or using a phone to make transaction, but also allowing the citizen […]
Amadou Sy Sub-Saharan Africa has become the global leader in mobile money adoption, usage, and innovation. The challenge now is to go beyond the success in payments to meet the unmet demand in the region for other, underdeveloped financial services that can facilitate the digitalization of other segments of the economy. In a new report, my colleagues […]
2018 was a year of tremendous technological innovation and landmark shift in thinking. On the other hand, it was plagued with several high profile privacy and cybersecurity breaches within and outside Nigeria. One of the most prominent security breaches was the Facebook data scandal. Cambridge Analytica acquired personally identifiable information of up to 87 million […]
Since payment alternatives such as Unified Payment Interface, e-wallets and USSD-based mobile banking through different platforms are directly or indirectly linked to the user’s bank account, one needs to be extra careful to keep hackers at bay, according to the Chief Executive Officer of BankBazaar, Adhil Shetty. Several countries of the world have seen a […]
Financial exclusion has manifested prominently in Nigeria with the bulk of the money in the economy staying outside the banking system. The issue of financial exclusion has therefore been a major economic challenge that has received the attention of the various governments over the past four decades due to increased literacy and government policies directed […]
What was previously a relatively innocuous industry sector, the financial technology (or “Fintech”) industry has exploded over the past few years. With the litany of new Fintech startups and existing Fintech businesses, and even Fintech specific incubators and accelerators popping up, the Fintech revolution is clearly in full effect. As with any fast growing industry […]