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Financial Inclusion Week 2021
Reaching the unreached is always at the center stage of discussion in financial inclusion, different stakeholders strategically work to achieve inclusive finance through their product offerings and services. These range from Banking, Insurance, Pension, Digital Financial Services, Fintech, payment services, etc. In order to reach the last mile, there is a felt need for synergy…
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Financial Inclusion Week 2021
The Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI) convenes FIW each year and invites partner organizations to showcase work, share ideas on what’s ahead and engage with the community. It is an annual, virtual gathering of the global community working to advance inclusive finance with the objective of exchanging ideas, developments, perspectives, and convening stakeholders all around the world.…
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FintechNGR Holds 3rd AGM, Inaugurated New GovCo
Fintech Association of Nigeria, the umbrella body for Fintechs in Nigeria, pioneer national fintech association in Africa, Founding Member, Africa Fintech Network and member of Global Fintech Hub Federation held its 3rd Annual General Meeting today, Friday, 6th November 2020 online. The event that was well attended by members of BOT, members of outgoing and…
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Leveraging Digitized Social Welfare Programs to Deepen Female Financial Inclusion in Africa
Global economies—from Nairobi to Beijing—are undergoing a rapid transformation, with digital technologies changing the way people communicate, work, bank, and access information. Today, previously unbanked households in Nigeria, Kenya and other nations of Africa can now access instant credit over their mobile phones. Rural households in Senegal are lighting their homes by linking their bank…
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*FintechNGR Inaugurates Fintech Fund Advisory Team & the Nigerian Fintech Regluators’ Forum*
To address some of the challenges innovators/fintechs face in Nigeria, FintechNGR inaugurated the Fintech Fund Advisory Team and the Nigerian Reguvators’ Forum today, Monday, 7th September. The Fintech Fund Advisory Team was set up to develop a strategy to harness, harmonise and harvest various funding initiatives in Nigeria towards the take-off of an indigenous fintech…
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Digitization in Microfinance banks
Samson .T (Ajayi) Jola-Michae Many IT professionals were idle, while some were overwhelmed with so many activities during the lockdown due to Covid-19 pandemic. I feel reluctant to write this, but it is a path to opening up digital growth for Microfinance Banks (MFBs). A digital Microfinance bank in this context is a bank that…
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Intercontinental Apex Regulator’s Virtual Session
Fintech Association of Nigeria in furtherance of its Accelerate, Connect and Advocacy objectives is organising an intercontinental virtual session on Thursday, 25th June by 10 AM WAT/GMT+1. The event with the title – COVID-19: Enabling Speedy Business and Economic Recovery Through Regulation brings together heads of Regulatory agencies from Asia, Europe, Africa and Nigeria. The…
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COVID-19, banks and the new normal
Robert Obioha One of the realities of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Nigeria and elsewhere is the new normal it has engendered in the way things are done. The disease has so much affected social life and the world of work that there must be new ways of carrying out our daily human activities. And…
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COVID-19 & Financial Inclusion in Nigeria- The Good and The Not-So-Ugly
Onyeka Akpaida May 25, 2020 Like everyone else, no one envisioned the world would be at a standstill for 6 weeks+ talk less of experiencing a global pandemic; as is the custom of uninvited guests, COVID-19 decided to show up regardless. The economic disruption of this pandemic will largely come from ‘’aversion posture” taken by…
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MICROFINANCE BANKS AND THE UGLY MONSTER; COVID-19
Khanoba Collins: Chief Operating Officer, Letshego MFB. As we brace up for the gradual opening of businesses and MFBs returning to full operations in the coming days and weeks, the disruption from covid-19 will forever reshape our world of doing business. It is imperative for MFBs to immediately change the way they do business in…