Category: Business
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Microfinance takes banking, credit to grassroots.
https://thenationonlineng.net/microfinance-takes-banking-credit-to-grassroots/
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MTN gets super-agent license from CBN, in bid for a larger share of Nigeria’s financial services space.
Over the years, the Central Bank of Nigeria has been introducing a series of initiatives to drive financial inclusion penetration in the country. Examples of such initiatives include the Shared Agent Network Facility (SANEF) and Payment Services Banks, both of which were introduced within the last two years. Both MTN Nigerian and Airtel Nigeria have since indicated interest…
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Appraising Nigeria’s Agent Banking Policy.
https://www.independent.ng/appraising-nigerias-agent-banking-policy/
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First Bank demystifying financial inclusion with XploreFirst.
Worried by the increasing rate of the unbanked population, the Federal Government, through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), kicked off a campaign in 2012 to achieve 80 per cent financial inclusion of adult population by 2020. The CBN carried out the campaign through agency banking, mobile banking/mobile payments, linkage models and client empowerment, to…
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Experts Express Doubts About Nigeria’s Attainment Of Financial Inclusion By 2020
The president, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria Uche Olowu and other key players in the sector at a meeting in Lagos said Nigeria is on the right track with the establishment of shared agent network facilities to drive the banking industry’s contribution toward attainment of eighty percent financial inclusion target. Others while speaking on…
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Accelerating CBN’s Financial Inclusion.
https://leadership.ng/2019/04/23/accelerating-cbns-financial-inclusion/