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In the first quarter of 2023, cashless transactions across fintech entities in Nigeria grew by 44.84 per cent amounting to a total of N126.73 trillion naira up from N87.73 trillion naira in the corresponding period of 2022. [9] [4] But the growth of fintech has also led to increased cyber-attacks against fintech entities. In December 2023 ...
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 ...
Accenture PLC (NYSE: ACN) invested in Nigeria’s fintech company, Okra, via Accenture Ventures. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Okra is an open finance platform that ...
Today, Nigeria's Okra, arguably the first to gain mainstream attention, is announcing that it has closed a seed round of $3.5 million. U.S.-based Susa Ventures led this latest tranche of investment.
In this list of financial regulatory and supervisory authorities, central banks are only listed where they act as direct supervisors of individual financial firms, and competition authorities and takeover panels are not listed unless they are set up exclusively for financial services.
Today, Bankly, a Nigerian fintech startup digitizing cash for the unbanked, announced that it has closed a $2 million seed round. Nigeria remains a largely cash-dominated country. There are more ...
"Fintech", a clipped compound of "financial technology", refers to the application of innovative technologies to products and services in the financial industry.This broad term encompasses a wide array of technological advancements in financial services, including mobile banking, online lending platforms, digital payment systems, robo-advisors, and blockchain-based applications such as ...