Renmony, a fintech lending company licensed as a Microfinance Bank in Lagos has announced the appointment of Oluwatobi Boshoro as its new Chief Executive Officer. Prior to her appointment, Boshoro served as Head, Digital Strategy, Issuing and Service Management at Stanbic IBTC, where she also headed the bank’s Electronic Banking and Digital Strategy units at…

Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Chairman, has congratulated Channel VAS founder and CEO Bassim Haidarfor his company’s achievements...

As technology continues to dominate and permeate every segment of human endeavour, activity and field of knowledge, there is strong indication...

As fintech continues to revolutionalise financial services in Nigeria, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) have advised risk managers to stay ahead of trends and step up their risk management mechanisms to avert imminent risks that may arise from modern technology. Speaking at the Risk Management…

Investing in data authentication and detection software by the banks and other financial institutions would lead to the expansion of loan database, improve services and boost financial inclusion.

As the local banks embrace retail credit business to deepen their retail portfolios and fend off stiff competition from FinTech lenders, more Nigerians are embracing pay day loan schemes to manage their transactions. A payday loan is a short-term, typically 14-day, cash loan. The consumer typically writes a personal cheque to the payday lender (or…

To celebrate Fintech achievements and opportunities with focus on funds and payments, capital markets, insurance innovations, block chain and cyber security, the world’s attention will be on the city of Lagos as it hosts the Lagos Fintech Week in October. Dr. Yele Okeremi, chairman of organizing committee, said: “Each day we will focus on a…

Out of the $560 million technology startup investments that entered Africa in 2017, Nigeria earned $114.6 million.

Cognisant of the challenges posed by manual transactions in Nigeria’s foreign exchange (forex)market, a full service Fintech company, Greenov8 Global Platforms Limited...

Stakeholders in the financial technology ecosystem have thrown their weight behind digitalization of retail payment system in the country as a boost to financial inclusion initiative of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

With over 98 per cent of data analytics yet to be explored globally, banks have been urged to scale up the use of analytics to make banking operations...

The Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access (EFInA) has raised the hopes about huge market opportunities for Financial Technology (Fintech) companies in Nigeria.At a forum it organised in Lagos, EFInA, a financial development organisation funded by DfID and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation