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FinTech Association of Nigeria known as FintechNGR is a Nigeria based self-regulatory, nonprofit and non-partisan organization focused on accelerating the growth of financial technology, facilitate investments and create enabling financial technological environment for innovation in Nigeria. [1]
Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency of Turkey (BRSA) ; Capital Markets Board (SPK) ; Insurance and Private Pension Regulation and Supervision Agency (IPRSA) Turks and Caicos: Turks and Caicos Islands Financial Services Commission (TCIFSC) Uganda: Bank of Uganda ; Capital Markets Authority (CMA) ; Insurance Regulatory Authority of Uganda ...
Open banking in Nigeria was kickstarted by the Open Banking Nigeria as an initiative to be non-partisan and non-financial API standards for Nigerian financial services. It was formed in June 2017 by a group of bankers and fintech experts who got together to propose the adoption of common API standards for the country. [13]
Financial regulation is a broad set of policies that apply to the financial sector in most jurisdictions, justified by two main features of finance: systemic risk, which implies that the failure of financial firms involves public interest considerations; and information asymmetry, which justifies curbs on freedom of contract in selected areas of financial services, particularly those that ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is the main regulatory institution of the Nigerian capital market. It is supervised by the Federal Ministry of Finance. [1] The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) is privately owned and self-regulating, but the SEC maintains surveillance over it with the mandate of ensuring orderly and equitable dealings in securities, and protecting the market against ...
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) of Nigeria, formerly the Nigerian Accounting Standards Board (NASB), is an organization charged with setting accounting standards in Nigeria. On Thursday, 6 May 2021, Shuaibu Adamu Ahmed was inaugurated by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, as the Executive Secretary/Chief ...
Opay Digital Services Limited commonly called Opay, and formerly Paycom Nigeria Limited, is a fintech mobile money operating company founded by Zhou Yahui and Djxbazz in 2013 with headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. [1] It is among the four major fintech companies in Nigeria: Moniepoint Inc., Kuda, and PalmPay. [2]
In March 2015, a report by the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser, stated that "FinTech has the potential to be applied to regulation and compliance to make financial regulation and reporting more transparent, efficient and effective – creating new mechanisms for regulatory technology, RegTech". [7]