Fintech firms to replace banks as MTN embraces new channels for airtime sale

If the ongoing battle between Africa’s largest telco, MTN, and Nigerian commercial banks prolongs, fintech companies may well turn out to be the beneficiaries. MTN has informed its customers that they could buy their airtime and internet data from platforms such as Barter by Flutterwave, Kuda Bank, OPay, Jumia Pay, BillsnPay and Carbon. “It will…