FinTech
Visa, Paga partner on innovative payment solutions
Nigerian fintech company, Paga, and global payments technology company, Visa, have announced a strategic partnership in accelerating secure and convenient mobile payments for merchants and consumers.
Aliko Dangote remains Africa’s wealthiest person, Mike Adenuga, Abdulsamad Rabiu among top 20
For the ninth year in a row, Aliko Dangote of Nigeria has been declared as the wealthiest person in Africa, with an estimated net worth of $10.1 billion.
SEC: Market regulation now more efficient with technology
The Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, has said that regulation of the market in a technology-driven era is now more efficient and that is why it is stepping up its use in regulation to ensure that investors in the capital market are adequately protected.
NDIC warns operators against disclosing customers’ financial data, status
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has warned financial technology (Fintech) operators against disclosing their customers’ financial details without appropriate permission.
Konga founder Sim Shagaya raises $3.1 million for new venture
Sim Shagaya, Nigerian founder of e-commerce platform Konga, is back with a new startup — uLesson — that has raised a $3.1 million seed round led by TLcom Capital.
NAICOM: Insurance firms’ total assets hit N1.3 trillion
The total asset of 58 insurance companies as at 2018 stands at N1.3 trillion, Acting Commissioner, National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), Mr Olorundare Sunday Thomas has said.
Nigeria’s Lidya plans $1.1 billion SMEs loans for Czech, Poland
Nigerian fintech lending platform, Lidya, is targeting Poland and the Czech Republic for expansion after providing thousands of loans in Nigeria, seeing an opportunity in the funding gaps facing small enterprises in fast-growing European economies.
VP Osinbajo: Digital technology will change face of agriculture in Africa
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says that digital technology and its application will change the face of agriculture in Africa.
Experts: Mobile phone triggers fundamental shift in financial services
Mines Nigeria Ltd., a telecom, media and tech business company, on Tuesday, said that mobile phones had triggered a fundamental shift in financial services.
Expert seeks government’s support to promote financial inclusion
Dr Segun Aina, President, Fintech Association of Nigeria and Africa Fintech Network, has called for more government support to promote financial inclusion.
Microsoft Africa development centre excites Babajide Sanwo-Olu
Lagos State Governor-elect, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has expressed joy over the launch of the Microsoft Africa Development Centre in Lagos.
Central bank to implement new collateral management regime
The move is in line with ongoing efforts to evolve a robust collateral management regime which would be proportionate to transactional level of participants within the payment system.
How Atiku Abubakar will lose February 16 election
Get this straight: Atiku Abubakar will lose the presidential election on February 16. I’m not Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka or one of the tongue-in-cheek seers whose predictions you’ll be struggling to figure out after dropping your offering in the bag at midnight of December 31.
SEC: Technology vital to capital market development
The need for urgent embrace of technology to take the nation’s capital market to the next level has been reinforced by the Acting Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mary Uduk, who said the government will invest approximately to make Nigeria more globally competitive.
Technology, key to reducing cost at capital market – SEC chief
Acting Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mary Uduk, has said that technology, when properly leveraged, will reduce the cost of doing business at the capital market.
Digital economy: Yemi Osinbajo calls for Africa-Europe synergy
Africa and Europe must work together to advance and harvest the economic benefits of digital economy, and also prevent a counter-productive widening of the digital gap, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said.
Herbert Wigwe: Fintech will transform financial services
Dr Herbert Wigwe, the Managing Director of Access Bank Plc., says Fintech in a few years, will change the face of financial services as the next big thing in Africa.
SEC: Financial Inclusion’ll aid economic growth
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has restated its desire to pursue initiatives that would aid financial inclusion of Nigerians as this is capable of growing the nation’s economy.
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Yinka Quadri: Fight against coronavirus should be collective responsibility of all
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Police burst syndicate posing as health officials, selling unhygienic sanitisers, others
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Lockdown: Security agent kills 28-year-old man in Delta
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Olumide Oyedeji: IOC grants great relief for Nigerian athletes
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How I learnt manufacturing Russian AK47, pump action rifles – Suspect
A 40-year-old man, Mohammed Mamuda, has been arrested for manufacturing Russian AK47 Rifles and Pump Action Rifles and selling them to suspected criminals.
Three New York police officers dead, 868 infected
NY Commissioner of Police says 4,342 uniformed officers, representing 13 per cent of the force, had called out sick as of Sunday.
Virologist urges Nigeria to expand coronavirus test capacity
Dr Solomon Chollom, a Jos based Virologist, has called on the Federal Government to increase testing capacity for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak in the country.
Sterling Bank donates N250 million to private sector coalition against virus pandemic
Sterling Bank Plc, has contributed N250 million as part of its commitment to the newly formed Nigerian Private Sector Coalition Against COVID-19 created to help channel resources to combat the coronavirus disease under the theme: “We need you.”
Akwa Ibom governor signs quarantine and restriction of movement regulation
The new law which is in effect across the thirty-one (31) Local Government Areas of the state, is in view of the serious and imminent threat to Public Health by the pandemic COVID-19, a dangerous infectious disease within the meaning and intendment of Section 2 of the Quarantine Act, Cap. Q2, Laws of Federation of Nigeria 2004.