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Financial Inclusion
Blockchain could add $1bn to Nigeria’s economy, deepen financial inclusion –…
Blockchain- enabled solutions will not only help to drive Nigeria’s financial inclusion goal but has the potential to add $1billion to Africa’s largest economy by 2021 with the potential to…
We need to increase pipeline of young women rising through ranks of firms –…
SHIRLEY SOMUAH is a Principal at Cardinalstone Capital Advisers. In this interview with Businessday’s ENDURANCE OKAFOR, she joins other tenacious women who have created the shared goals of…
How Nigeria can bank its unbanked population
Eight years after, Nigeria is yet to achieve the desired financial inclusion target as over 40 million adult population are outside the country's financial system.
High poverty rate, cost…
How smartphone penetration can deepen Nigeria’s financial inclusion drive
From 1892 when Nigeria’s first commercial bank was established in Lagos, the banking business in Africa’s largest economy has evolved to a point where bank customers can now complete…
IWD2021: Africa’s billionaires are not women
It’s the year 2021 and women’s access to education, wealth and positions of authority have not seen significant progress in Africa. In Nigeria, the continent’s biggest economy, the existence…
Deepening financial inclusion: QRCode as a lever
Many people may have seen Quick Response Codes signs on various platforms such as supermarkets, advertisements and restaurants but might not know what it is for. Quick Response Code,…
Mastercard partners MTN to empower millions of African consumers through digital…
Through a Mastercard virtual payment solution linked to MTN Momo ( Mobile Money) wallets, consumers and merchants can engage with brands and businesses abroad through digital commerce,…
Inability to offer credit, insurance services is a major challenge for PSB –…
The fact that the much- anticipated payment service banks ( PSB) cannot offer credit and insurance services is a challenge to onboarding the excluded Nigerian adult population, according to…
MAX NG has built elaborate technologies to keep vehicles, customers safe’
Before 2015, reckless driving and road accidents were the thought that came to mind whenever ‘ motorcycle’ was mentioned. Unkempt-looking motorcyclists driving like they had nine lives was,…
It’s unlikely Nigeria met 80% financial inclusion target of 2020 – EFInA
The target by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to ensure 80 percent of the country’s adult citizens have access to financial services by end of 2020 may have been unrealised, according to…