After four years of providing credit through a loan app, FairMoney has evolved to a digital bank following its Microfinance Bank (MfB) licence from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). When it launched in Nigeria in 2017 it started as a mobile app that uses alternative smartphone data to underwrite
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